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Science Disappoints Again, as New “Tractor Beam” Only Moves Minute Polystyrene Balls

The good news is they've made a better kind of tractor beam. The bad news is it's rubbish, only managing to line up minuscule polystyrene balls suspended in water. That wouldn't even make the cut as a Voyager episode. Read More >>

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Large Hadron Collider Does the Job — Higgs Boson Particle Discovered

The Large Hadron Collider has been busily zapping very small things into other things for quite some time, in the hope of finding the prophesied Higgs boson particle. And now it looks like it actually has, with CERN announcing the discovery of the "heaviest boson ever found." Read More >>