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What’s Next for Physics’ Standard Model? Muon Results Throw Theories Into Confusion, Nature
Anomalies to fundamental theory have physicists trying to concoct new explanations.
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Opinion: I Now Know What Caused My Autism, Which Changes Everything — and Nothing, CNN
Amy Gravino, one of SPARK's first participants, writes about her reaction to finding out that a rare genetic condition caused her autism.
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The Already Tiny Neutrino’s Maximum Possible Mass Has Shrunk Even Further, Science News
The KATRIN experiment finds the ethereal particle has a mass less than 0.8 electron volts.
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Success! NASA’s Ingenuity Makes First Powered Flight On Mars, NPR
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter has made the first-ever powered flight on another planet, 117 years after the Wright Brothers' historic flight on this planet.
