► Finally, in this week's Science editorial, Michael S. Turner makes a plea for curiosity - based science, pointing to scientific connections between two recent momentous discoveries, the Background Imaging of Cosmic Extragalactic Polarization (BICEP2) detection of evidence of gravitational waves in the cosmic microwave background (still subject to confirmation) and the detection of the Higgs boson. (sciencemag.org)
Scientists cracked open a pair of fossilized dinosaur eggs from South Africa and in July reported a momentous discovery. (discovermagazine.com)
► «Fabiola Gianotti, an Italian physicist who garnered global attention 2 years ago when she and another physicist announced the discovery of the Higgs boson, has been named the next director - general of CERN, the European particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland, where that momentous discovery was made,» Adrian Cho wrote Tuesday at ScienceInsider. (sciencemag.org)