Great story, if true, as the old newsroom saying goes. Tabitha M. Powledge writes about a physics breakthrough that fizzled: "It was, scientists at the Large Hadron Collider acknowledged, statistical noise. So the Standard Model of physics remains intact. I confess to being somewhat relieved that, in this dizzying year, some widely accepted picture of our world still stands." Also, "a burgeoning controversy over a new form of gene-editing, with a protein called NgAgo."
August 13, 2016
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