Lisa Grossman, physical sciences reporter(Image: CERN)Is the Higgs boson a herald of the apocalypse? That's the suggestion behind a theory, developed more than 30 years ago, that is back in the headlines this week. According to physicists, the mass of the Higgs-like particle announced last summer supports the notion that our universe is teetering on the edge of stability, like a pencil balanced...
Oscar hopeful Haneke fears failure with Mozart
Labels: Technology MADRID: Although he is nursing hopes of an Oscar, Austrian film-maker Michael Haneke says he feels doomed to failure with his latest project -- a staging of a Mozart opera in Spain."Amour", Haneke's film about an ageing couple that won the Palme d'Or at Cannes last year, is up for five Oscars on Sunday, including for best film and best director.First, however, the 69-year-old faces another...
Woman's corpse found in LA hotel's water tank
Labels: LifestyleBy Alan Duke, CNNupdated 8:51 PM EST, Wed February 20, 2013STORY HIGHLIGHTSElisa Lam disappeared from the hotel on January 31Canadian's body was found in a Cecil Hotel water tank TuesdayPolice investigating deathLos Angeles (CNN) -- Tourists staying at a Los Angeles hotel bathed, brushed teeth and drank with water from a tank in which a young woman's body was likely decomposing for more than two weeks,...
Sequestration could mean across-the-board pain
Labels: Health (CBS News) WASHINGTON - The entire economy is headed for trouble in just eight days -- when massive across-the-board cuts in the federal budget are scheduled to kick in automatically. The cuts were designed to be so deep and harmful, that they would force the president and Congress to find a better way. But they haven't. Just for example, there would be $46 billion cut from the Defense Department...
Arias Leaves Stand After Describing Killing, Her Lies
Labels: Business Jodi Arias stepped down from the witness stand today after mounting an emotional effort to save herself from death row, insisting to the Arizona jury that an explosive fight with ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander led to his death, and that her lies about killing him masked deep regret and plans to commit suicide.Arias, 32, will now face what is expected to be a withering cross-examination...
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Labels: World Doctors would tax sugary drinks to combat obesity Hiking the price of fizzy drinks would cut consumption and so help fight obesity, urges the British Academy of Medical Royal CollegesSpace station's dark matter hunter coy about findings Researchers on the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, which sits above the International Space Station, have collected their first results - but won't reveal them...
Pro-family and women-friendly workplaces called for by PAP Women's Wing
Labels: Technology Singapore: The Women's Wing of the People' Action Party wants to see bolder government intervention in the drive for pro-family and women-friendly workplaces.In a position paper submitted to the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Wednesday, it called for legislation to allow employees with children below the age of 12-years to request for flexible work arrangements.Such requests, it said, should...
Killing, carjacking spree ends with suicide
Labels: LifestyleSTORY HIGHLIGHTSAli Syed killed three, wounded three during spree that involved carjackings in Orange County, police sayAuthorities: Syed first killed woman at his parents' home, then shot at motoristsSuspect killed himself after police spotted him north of Tustin, police say(CNN) -- In the middle of a shooting spree that killed three people and unleashed terror on Southern California motorists Tuesday...
What's next in the looming budget crisis?
Labels: Health (CBS News) WASHINGTON -- We are nine days from the next national self-inflicted budget crisis: big, across-the-board cuts in the federal budget will hit automatically on March 1. The cuts are designed to be so deep and damaging that they would force the president and Congress to compromise on a better way. "These cuts are not smart, they are not fair, they will hurt our economy, they will add hundreds...
Arias Says Violent Sex Preceded Killing
Labels: Business Jodi Arias and her ex-boyfriend, Travis Alexander,, had increasingly violent sex in which he tied her to his bed, twisted her arm, bent her over a desk for anal sex, and made sex videos with her in the hours leading up to the stabbing and shooting frenzy that left Alexander dead.It was a day in which Arias, 32, inched closer to telling the court how the killing of Alexander...
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