USC alumn's win upsets Emma Donoghue's novel, Room.
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Australian undergraduate solves part of the missing mass problem by sending X-rays to galaxy filaments.
Despite flight cancellations, this year's Icelandic volcano unattended by fears of Eyjafjallajökull 2.0.
California's prison population stands at 143,000, almost double the designed capacity.