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Cool science news

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/184775/20110721/mutant-mouse-resistant-poison.htm

A type of mouse, resistant to the rat poison wafarin, were discovered in a German bakery. Hope they don't spread. Better keep my cats.

http://www.geekosystem.com/furthest-largest-water/

A cloud of water vapor, 140 trillion times the mass of our oceans, is in orbit around a distant quasar. Well, it was 12 billion years ago. perhaps it has turned into a star, lived, and burned out by now.

http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2011/07/hints-of-a-light-higgs-in-lhc-data.ars

Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider may have found evidence of the long theorized Higgs Boson particle, which is believed to cause other particles to have mass.