The Race for Bosons

Fermilab's Tevatron Reidar Hahn/Fermilab

Particle accelerator smackdown! Scientists working on Fermilab's Tevatron have been talking some smack (in the politest of terms), saying they have a good shot at finding the elusive Higgs boson before the currently out-of-commission Large Hadron Collider does.

Also in today's links: a map of emissions, why not to keep chimps as pets (besides the now-obvious), and more.

• Scientists have created a Google Earth map that shows CO₂ emissions, broken down by the industry that produced them. Unfortunately, it currently shows data from 2002, but there are plans to add in newer data.
• I feel awful for the lady who was mauled by the chimp but, more than that, I'm baffled by the other woman who was keeping this 200-pound creature as a pet. Here are some reasons that shouldn't have happened.
• It sounds like a Disney movie: the Sea Turtle Association of Japan is trying to come up with an artificial limb for a 150-pound loggerhead sea turtle.