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World Service,11 Sep 2000,26 mins

Is the Higgs boson Particle really out there?

Science In Action

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What remains to be discovered in the Standard Model of particle physics, could it be the Higgs boson and have scientists at CERN detected them? How did SIV in chimpanzees make the jump to humans and become HIV? Canabilism in southern Colorado, 850 years ago. Why weightlessness appeals to dancers.

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