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We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
- Life
California mad cow case no reason for panic
An animal recently diagnosed with the disease had an unusual form unlikely to be passed to humans.
- Humans
A result of zero doesn’t always mean zero results
Two recent astrophysics studies found meaningful results in nothing.
- Space
The Newtonian physics (or not) of Angry Birds Space
Experts weigh in on the basic principles featured in the game’s universe.
- Particle Physics
Higgs running out of hiding places
particle’s mass confirms a final missing piece of physics’ puzzle is right where scientists think it is.
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- Space
HiRISE clocks hurricane-speed winds on Mars
Orbiting camera measures swirling gusts in dust devils.
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The Sopranos with feathers
Stories from a day of bird searching.
- Space
A fine how-do-you-do from an asteroid
Five days after being discovered, an interplanetary visitor passes 12,300 kilometers above Earth’s surface.
- Space
No new particle from second detector
The chances that the Tevatron is producing a previously unknown particle drop substantially after the collider's DZERO experiment finds nothing extraordinary.
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Other shoe drops on arsenic-eating bugs
A journal publishes responses to its recent paper suggesting that some microbes can live on a poisonous substance.
- Humans
Skeptical scientists call 1-800-BALONEY on cell phone study
Findings on brain effects are vigorously attacked and just as strenuously defended.
- Space
Rumors of a Higgs discovery are just that
Speculation suggests that a long-sought particle may be at hand, but most physicists remain skeptical.
