[QUOTE=Dubslow;440136]@xilman they focus on vector gauge bosons as the category of interest.[/QUOTE]Sure.

I was expanding on your earlier comment and pointing out some of the other alternatives. The authors themselves ruled out some alternative bosons on symmetry grounds but that doesn't mean that a vector gauge boson is the only thing remaining.

[QUOTE=xilman;440135]the so-far hypothetical axion.[/QUOTE]
Huh? Axion is not hypothetical! Everybody knows the [URL="https://www.google.co.th/search?q=axion&tbm=isch"]killer of greases[/URL]...

[URL="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/physicists-achieve-atomic-data-storage"]Physicists Achieve Atomic Data Storage[/URL]

[URL="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601911/better-than-opioids-virtual-reality-could-be-your-next-painkiller/"]Better Than Opioids? Virtual Reality Could Be Your Next Painkiller[/URL]

[URL="https://aeon.co/essays/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-good-or-a-bad-microbe"]Microbes have no Morals[/URL]

[URL="http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/10-truly-curious-destinations-for-science-geeks-and-tech-nerds/education"]10 truly curious destinations for science geeks and tech nerds[/URL]

[URL="https://medium.com/@americanmensa/over-the-counter-data-c98622f74c90#.bd49df1vu"]Over-the-Counter Data[/URL]

[URL="http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/07/the-debate-over-times-place-in-the-universe/492464/"]The Debate Over Time's Place in the Universe[/URL]

[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/29/science/brain-scans-math.html?_r=0"]What Your Brain Looks Like When It Solves a Math Problem[/URL]

[URL="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-brain-builds-memory-chains/"]How the Brain Builds Memory Chains[/URL]

[URL="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/04/21/does-evidence-support-the-artistic-vs-scientific-mind-stereotype/#.V7ZIq2Vlm3B"]Does Evidence Support the Artistic vs. Scientific Mind Stereotype?[/URL]

[URL="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/11/science/how-did-people-migrate-to-the-americas-bison-dna-helps-chart-the-way.html?_r=1"]How Did People Migrate to the Americas? Bison DNA Helps Chart the Way[/URL]

[URL="https://aeon.co/ideas/what-i-learned-as-a-hired-consultant-for-autodidact-physicists"]What I learned as a hired consultant to autodidact physicists[/URL]

[URL="http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/08/11/489229041/talk-about-an-ancient-mariner-greenland-shark-is-at-least-272-years-old"]Talk About An Ancient Mariner! Greenland Shark Is At Least 272 Years Old[/URL]

[URL="http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/titan-appears-to-have-steep-gorges-and-rivers-like-the-nile/"]Titan appears to have steep gorges and rivers like the Nile[/URL]

[URL="http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/08/aba-autism-controversy/495272/"]Is the Most Common Therapy for Autism Cruel?[/URL]

[URL="http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/diagnostic-detective-unravels-brain-mysteries/education"]Diagnostic detective unravels brain mysteries[/URL]

Thanks for all these nice links (few of them already posted to this forum, but now we have them all together).

[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bosnian-pine-oldest-tree-greece-adonis_us_57b8a6fce4b03d513688c6b1[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;440368][url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bosnian-pine-oldest-tree-greece-adonis_us_57b8a6fce4b03d513688c6b1[/url][/QUOTE]

After having seen some of the largest and oldest trees here in the US, I'm wondering how long it would take Trump to start cutting them down to put into his casinos as Christmas trees...

[url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/one-year-until-a-stunning-solar-eclipse-darkens-middle-america/[/url]

[QUOTE=Xyzzy;440392][url]http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/08/one-year-until-a-stunning-solar-eclipse-darkens-middle-america/[/url][/QUOTE]

Next year I'm driving to Salem, Oregon, to hopefully see this eclipse.

Great White Nursery
 

[URL]http://motherboard.vice.com/read/newly-discovered-great-white-nursery-is-holy-grail-of-shark-research[/URL]
[QUOTE]For the first time, biologists have located a great white “nursery,” where mother sharks deliver pups, alive and fully formed. Researchers with [URL="http://www.ocearch.org/"]OCEARCH[/URL], an ocean research nonprofit, identified the site this week in waters off Montauk, Long Island.

This monumental finding is “probably the most significant discovery we’ve ever made on the ocean,” said Chris Fischer, the founding chairman of OCEARCH. In [URL="http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/ocearch-discovers-great-white-shark-birth-site-off-ny-coast/"]an interview with CBS News[/URL], Fischer noted that great white birthing sites are regarded as “the holy grail of research,” and are especially important in the Atlantic Ocean, where [URL="http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/3855/0"]the sharks are vulnerable[/URL] to bycatch and sport fishing.
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[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/08/30/confirmed-your-dog-really-does-get-you/[/url]

[QUOTE=kladner;440979][URL]http://motherboard.vice.com/read/newly-discovered-great-white-nursery-is-holy-grail-of-shark-research[/URL][/QUOTE]
Very interesting that site where you can track the sharks in real time (link inside your link). Thanks for sharing it. So, they do not really adventure far away from home, or far from the shore (I guess, nothing to eat? Or they do, but they don't surface, in the mid-ocean?). I clicked on the two dots in the middle of the ocean, but one is a turtle close to Hawaii (so... not all of them are white sharks either!) and the other one is Betsy's lost accelerometer which the scientists are hoping to retrieve... (Now I wonder, because the shark is still tagged, and far away from the lost tag, what did they do? Did they put two tags from the first time - somehow cruel, how many tags they put for a single shark? 2? 3? 20?, or they caught the same shark a second time - very improbable!)