Higgs boson results from LHC 'get even stronger'
The Higgs boson-like particle whose discovery was announced on 4 July looks significantly more certain to exist.
The particle has been the subject of a decades-long hunt as the last missing piece of physics' Standard Model, explaining why matter has mass.
Now Higgs-hunting teams at the Large Hadron Collider report more than "5.8 sigma" levels of certainty it exists.
That equates to a one-in-300 million chance that the Higgs does not exist and the results are statistical flukes.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19076355
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Nope - I just watch on TV occasionally.
Seen this ?
Olympics badminton: Eight players disqualified.
The Badminton World Federation has disqualified eight players after accusing them of "not using one's best efforts to win".
Four pairs of players - two from South Korea and one each from China and Indonesia - are out of the Olympics after their matches on Tuesday.
The eight were charged after a stream of basic errors during the match.
All four pairs were accused of wanting to lose in an attempt to manipulate the draw for the knockout stage.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/olympics/19072677
Both sides played to lose.
sportsmanship at this level. The BWF did the right thing.