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Scientists have developed a new material 6 times lighter than air and can support something 40,000 times its own weight. Researchers hope to exploit these properties to make light-weight batteries for electric cars.

Domenico Vicinanza is a particle physicist and a composer and has written a song whose notes are defined by the data points drawn from the research around the Higgs boson.

CERN scientists could bring the biggest news in physics in decades by declaring if they have discovered an elusive sub-atomic particle, called the Higgs Boson.

Pope Benedict is scheduled to conduct mass in Bethlehem when he visits the Middle East next week. But there will be fewer local Christians there than ever before. Correspondent Linda Gradstein visits the ever-shrinking Christian community in Bethlehem to find out why so many have left…and what worries those who remain.