New genetic and morphological evidence suggests a single hoaxer created ‘Piltdown man’

In 1912, palaeontologist Arthur Smith Woodward and amateur antiquarian and solicitor Charles Dawson announced the discovery of a fossil that supposedly provided a link between apes and humans: Eoanthropus dawsoni (Dawson's dawn man). The publication generated huge interest from scientists and the general public. However, ‘Piltdown man's’ initial celebrity has long been overshadowed by its subsequent infamy as one of the most famous scientific frauds in history. Our re-evaluation of the Piltdown fossils using the latest scientific methods (DNA analyses, high-precision measurements, spectroscopy and virtual anthropology) shows that it is highly likely that a single orang-utan specimen and at least two human specimens were used to create the fake fossils. The modus operandi was found consistent throughout the assemblage (specimens are stained brown, loaded with gravel fragments and restored using filling materials), linking all specimens from the Piltdown I and Piltdown II sites to a single forger—Charles Dawson. Whether Dawson acted alone is uncertain, but his hunger for acclaim may have driven him to risk his reputation and misdirect the course of anthropology for decades. The Piltdown hoax stands as a cautionary tale to scientists not to be led by preconceived ideas, but to use scientific integrity and rigour in the face of novel discoveries

Measurement of top quark–antiquark pair production in association with a W or Z boson in pp collisions at √s=8 TeV

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Observation of the diphoton decay of the Higgs boson and measurement of its properties

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Search for the production of dark matter in association with top-quark pairs in the single-lepton final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV

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Measurement of the sum ofWW and WZ production with W+dijet events in pp collisions at √ s = 7 TeV

A measurement of the inclusive WW+WZ diboson production cross section in proton–proton collisions is reported, based on events containing a leptonically decaying √W boson and exactly two jets. The data sample, collected at s = 7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 5.0 fb−1. The measured value of the sum of the inclusive WW and WZ cross sections is σ(pp → WW + WZ) = 68.9 ± 8.7 (stat.) ± 9.7 (syst.) ± 1.5 (lum.) pb, consistent with the standard model prediction of 65.6±2.2 pb. This is the first measurement of WW+WZ production in pp collisions using this signature. No evidence for anomalous triple gauge couplings is found and upper limits are set on their magnitudes

Searches for electroweak production of charginos, neutralinos, and sleptons decaying to leptons and W, Z, and Higgs bosons in pp collisions at 8 TeV

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Phylogenetic placement and description of Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov., Watts & Villastrigo (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae), a subterranean diving beetle from the Ngalia Basin in central Australia

Austral Entomology published by John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd on behalf of Australian Entomological Society[EN] The largest diversity in the world of subterranean diving beetles (Dytiscidae) hasbeen discovered in underground waters of the Australian arid zone. The majorityof species are from the Dytiscidae genera Limbodessus Guignot, 1939 (Bidessini)and Paroster Sharp, 1882 (Hydroporini) and are distributed within two majorregions: calcrete islands of central Western Australia and the Ngalia Basin of theNorthern Territory. Here, we use an integrative approach based on morphologicaland molecular analyses to describe Ngaliadessus humphreysi gen. et sp. nov.Watts & Villastrigo representing a new genus and species of stygobiotic Bidessinicollected from a single well in the Ngalia Basin. Phylogenetic analyses using wholemitochondrial genome, Histone 3 and 18S rRNA data, representing a comprehen-sive coverage of Bidessini genera, support the distinction of the genus and speciesas a separate evolutionary lineage sister to the Australasian genus Limbodessusand the widely distributed genus Allodessus Guignot, 1953. Our study further con-firms that the Ngalia Basin, containing 13 subterranean dytiscid species from fourdistinct genera, is one of the most speciose areas within the world’s most diversehotspot of subterranean diving beetlesSIAustralian Biological Resources Study, Grant/Award Number:CT214-11; Australian Research Council, Grant/Award Number: DP180103851; ARC Linkage, Grant/Award Number: LP140100555. Open access publishing facilitated by The University of Adelaide, as part of the Wiley - The University of Adelaide agreement via the Council of Australian University Librarian

Search for new physics in the multijet and missing transverse momentum final state in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 Tev

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Searches for supersymmetry using the M-T2 variable in hadronic events produced in pp collisions at 8 TeV

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Search for physics beyond the standard model in dilepton mass spectra in proton-proton collisions at √s=8 TeV

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