Best of Last Week – Confirming Einstein’s elevator, exciting news from Mars and medicines being improperly prescribed

It was another good week for physics as a team at the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology conducted an atomic clock comparison that confirmed key assumptions of ‘Einstein’s elevator’—one of the principles underlying the theory of general relativity. And a team working on the CMS project at the Large Hadron Collider reported that they were looking to answer the question “Who gets their mass from the Higgs?”