After a three-week hunt, Philippine locals used cables to capture a huge crocodile from a remote location in the southern Agusan del Sur province.¹ Guinness World Records deemed it the largest captive croc in the world.² Since last September, caretakers have held the one-ton saltwater crocodile at Bunawan Eco-Park. Were giant crocodiles on board Noah's Ark?

Scientists from Europe's CERN research center presented evidence last week for a particle that is likely the Higgs boson,¹ the last remaining elementary particle predicted by the Standard Model of particle physics.

"With the laws of physics, you can get universes," said Alex Filippenko of the University of California, Berkeley, during a panel discussion at the June 23 SETICon 2 science and science fiction conference in Santa Clara, California.¹ He argued that the universe could have begun as a result of a random "quantum mechanical fluctuation."¹