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World Service,09 Oct 2000,26 mins
Future of Higgs boson Particle Research in the Balance
Science In ActionAvailable for over a year
CERN building schedule threatens current research into the Higgs boson particle, which physicist David Miller explains "gives most of the particles in the universe their mass. And that's about as crucial as you can get in understanding the world we live in and what matter is." UN conference to develop Kyoto agreement on global warming at The Hague will hear that trees could become part of global warming. Early human migration patterns of male genes on the Y chromosome. Trapping fish in ancient Bolivia, on a massive scale.
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