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CMS and LHCb to present rare B-sub-s particle decay

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New results to be presented today at the European Physical Society's High Energy Physics conference (EPS-HEP 2013) in Stockholm, Sweden, have put the Standard Model of particle physics to one of its most stringent tests to date. The CMS and LHCb experiments at CERN’s Large Hadron

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Japan's “Science Women” look for an Identity

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In Japan, according to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, women accounted for 14 percent of science and engineering students at universities. In the humanities, they make up 66 percent. The low ratio of female students in science and engineering is related to the widely shared perception that studying sciences could be the kiss of death for young Japanese woman's romantic life: the men think that the women in science, disheveled and who does not care about beauty, are not cute.

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Gene therapy: great success against two rare diseases

The definition of landmark studies attributed to the two studies published in Science that report the results obtained at the Milan TIGET, respectively on metachromatic leukodystrophy and the Wiskott Aldrich syndrome, is not a daring exaggeration. Indeed, for the first time we may speak of an effective treatment against two diseases which, until now,