Deleted Scenes

  1. 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.

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  2. Humans

    A result of zero doesn’t always mean zero results

    Two recent astrophysics studies found meaningful results in nothing.

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  3. Space

    The Newtonian physics (or not) of Angry Birds Space

    Experts weigh in on the basic principles featured in the game’s universe.

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  4. 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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  5. Space

    Moony shot

    Cassini fits four Saturnian satellites in one frame.

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  6. Space

    HiRISE clocks hurricane-speed winds on Mars

    Orbiting camera measures swirling gusts in dust devils.

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  7. The Sopranos with feathers

    Stories from a day of bird searching.

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  8. 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.

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  9. 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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  10. 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.

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  11. Humans

    Skeptical scientists call 1-800-BALONEY on cell phone study

    Findings on brain effects are vigorously attacked and just as strenuously defended.

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  12. 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.

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