An article on the latest press release from the Large Hadron Collider can be found here-
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100203/tsc-uk-science-cern-011ccfa.html
Basically, it reiterates the physicists' hopes of finding the elusive Higgs particle and suggests that the planned programme of running the collider continuously for two years may be important in this.
The big news of the week, though is that in a scientific study, a patient in a "persistent vegetative state", managed to respond to questions from scientists by altering patterns of activity in his brain. If you ignore the rather tiresome for and against euthenasia columns accompanying the article, this piece in The Sun-
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/woman/health/health/2838208/Coma-patient-communicates-with-power-of-the-mind.html#mySunComments gives a nice synopsis of the research.
AND, FINALLY...
Here's a link to a wonderful image of baby pandas in a nursery built for them in China's Wolong National Nature Reserve-
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2839410/Panda-monium-as-cubs-run-riot.html
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