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The article discusses China's Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment in Hong Kong. Topics include the measurement of a crucial parameter that describes the behavior of subatomic particles, called neutrinos, by physicists with China's Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) in Beijing, how understanding neutrinos' behavior may help scientists explain why the universe contains much more matter than antimatter, and the IHEP physicists methodology that helped them find key measurements faster than their competitors.

The article reports on the first samples of superconductors made by the group of Hai-Hu Wen, a physicist at the Institute of Physics at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China, which were patterned after Japan's new superconductor that carried electricity without resistance at a balmy temperature of 26 kelvin. Hai-Hu Wen is one of the many groups in China that has started out a new family of high-temperaure superconductors out from Japanese material scientist Hideo Hosono of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Physicists all over the world are praising the discovery of the new iron-and-arsenic compounds as a major advance while high-temperature superconductivity remains the biggest mystery in condensed matter physics.

The article discusses the significance of the ice vest to Deena Kastor's, women's marathon athlete from the U.S., performance in the 2008 Beijing Olympics in Beijing, China. The clothing is vital to her because it is a contributing factor to his third place winning of the event. Instead of warming up by jogging at the 35°C heat, she donned an ice-filled vest, sat down and waited for the start of the 42.2 kilometer run. The material helps performance because it is delaying the point in the race in which she overheats.