Here is an overview of past attempts and new ideas to control mosquito on mosquito borne illnesses followed by a look at the potential consequences of eradicating them.
Tulika Bose describes the Compact Muon Solenoid, CMS, experiment and how it detects the various particles produced in the Large Hadron Colliders' proton-proton collisions.
The HIggs Boson was identified by looking for its decay products from billions of proton-antiproton collisions. And lest you think physicists are done with the Higgs now that they found it, the particle has raised some tantalizing new questions.
Julian touches on the scope of terraforming Venus and Mars, including back up plans since the direct methods with be mind-bogglingly expensive and difficult. By the way, so are the backup plans.
