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A new study maps the location of diseases that have jumped the species barrier from animals to humans over the last 72 years. On 4 July, scientists at CERN jubilantly announced that they had (most probably) found the Higgs boson. And this week's numbers quantify the papers fabricated by Japanes...

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Published in:Science
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2012
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.337.6091.139
https://syndication.highwire.org/content/doi/10.1126/science.337.6091.139
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Summary:A new study maps the location of diseases that have jumped the species barrier from animals to humans over the last 72 years. On 4 July, scientists at CERN jubilantly announced that they had (most probably) found the Higgs boson. And this week's numbers quantify the papers fabricated by Japanese anesthesiologist Yoshitaka Fujii and the ratio of news stories about the Kardashians to those about ocean acidification.