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"I am quite surprised that it happened during my lifetime. It is nice to be right about something sometimes." -Peter Higgs The LHC at CERN proved its value, for sure, but there are lots of other opinions floating around. On this and all topics at Starts With A Bang, you're free to have your say! Here's the ground we've covered, in case you missed anything:

A changing climate is having impacts on Canadians health. For some, it means more, or worse, migraines.

See related review article at www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.221607 (to be published February 6, 2023) and a first-person account of the difficulty of finding migraine treatment at [www.cmaj.ca/lookup/doi/10.1503/cmaj.221813][1] KEY POINTS Migraine affects about 12% of adults, with a

Date Time Researcher helps find largest supernova remnant by looking in right place An international team of researchers, using powerful new X-ray telescope eROSITA to conduct the first all-sky X-ray survey in 25 years, have detected the largest supernova remnant ever discovered with X-rays, dubbed Hoinga. An artist’s impression of a supernova, or exploding star. Picture credit: ESA/Hubble, CC BY 4.0 Astrophysicist Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker, from the Curtin University node of the Internation...

© J. Sanders, H. Brunner, eSASS-Team Survey of the sky in the X-ray spectrumA new survey of the sky in the X-ray spectrum has captured hitherto unseen, but incredibly large, structures hiding in plain sight in the Milky Way and beyond. The structures in question are giant bubbles composed of X-rays, emanating from the galactic center and extending beyond, both above and below, the galactic plane. They are so big that they dwarf the Fermi bubbles of gamma radiation humanity has already observed...