鈥淢y colleagues thought I was a bit of an idiot.
Physicist Peter Higgs describes the initial reaction in the 1960s to his theory of how subatomic particles acquire mass, involving the still-undetected Higgs boson. He hopes the particle will be discovered soon by the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland (Associated Press, 7 April)
No one thought to open them up 鈥� there was no real reason to believe that they could be lungless. If you have just one specimen in your museum, you don鈥檛 want to rip it up.
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David Bickford of the National University of Singapore, who discovered a frog in Borneo, Indonesia, that breathes through its skin. The frogs are threatened by illegal gold mining (Yahoo News, 7 April)
鈥淪he feeds through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. She鈥檚 just a baby.鈥�
Vinod Kumar, father of a girl born with two faces in Noida, northern India, last month (The Guardian, London, 8 April)
鈥淚f consumers receive shock phone bills, the service will not take off.鈥�
As the European Union approves the use of mobile phones in planes flying above 3000 metres, EU telecoms commissioner Viviane Reding warns phone companies not to be greedy (BBC News online, 7 April)
鈥淵ou have a need in an evolutionary sense for both money and women.鈥�
Camelia Kuhnen, a finance researcher and neuroeconomist at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, on her study showing that whether men look at erotic pictures or take financial risks, the same part of the brain lights up (Yahoo News, 5 April)