SCIENCE IN THE NEWS WEEKLY
Higgs Meditations, the Semantic Web, Nanoparticles
New Scientist looked at what detection of the Higgs boson, the so-called "God particle," by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) would mean for the standard model of particle physics. The LHC is expected to be operational "any day now."
In other technology news, the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, set to open this month, relies on the latest multi-media to give visitors an "immersive experience" of that war.
Meanwhile, the idea of a more intuitive "Semantic Web" has gotten a boost thanks to recent funding by the National Science Foundation of software expected to enhance access by researchers to the information they want.
ScienceNOW Daily News reported on criticism of a new study that found that nanoscale materials, used in everything from medical imaging to cancer treatment, can damage genetic material in our bodies. The study has little relevance to human exposure risks, experts say.
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