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Nobel Prize in Physics honours work on 'ghost messengers from space'

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Belgian physicist Francis Halzen has won the Nobel Prize in Physics. The prize was awarded for his work on subatomic particles at the South Pole.

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  • ABC News Nobel Prize in Physics honours work on 'ghost messengers from space'
  • BBC News (Science and Environment) 'Ghost particles' from space telescope wins physics Nobel

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One of the three things this headline claims is not in the report.

  • The headline puts “ghost messengers from space” in quotation marks. Nobody says those words anywhere in the report.

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The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
The winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics are selected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

A summary of ABC News’s report. The score is for the full 396-word report.

How calmly each outlet wrote it

Outlet Niral ScoreAdjectivesSourcingSentimentMood
ABC Newsas they published this story 92.2 7 65 0.5 81.9
BBC News (Science and Environment) 79.5 22 45 0.1 50.3

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