If you’re the kind of person who reads these updates here, you already know that CERN has come out and said they’ve found the Higgs boson.

What does that mean?

Simplest version: http://havewefoundthehiggsbosonyet.org/

Slightly more sophisticated version: Professor Matt Strassler explains what a “boson” is.

Even more sophisticated version (but still for non-physics-majors): Quantum Diaries explains how the [...]

Discover takes a close look at a monster smaller than the tip of a ballpoint pen. It’s the world’s smallest fly, a kind of fly called a phorid, and its babies eat the brains of tiny ants:

When the maggots hatch, they move towards the ant’s head, where they gorge upon the brain and other tissues. The ant stumbles [...]