Surahbi Bhatt, Faiza Arif and Adnin Zaman

This Week in Science

The Institute of Medicine published a report Thursday debunking the commonly held belief that there is a link between the MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine and autism. A cesium fountain clock near London, England calculates time within two 10 million billionths of a second, making it the world's most accurate long-term timekeeper. Researchers at the University of College Cork and McMaster University have found that probiotic bacteria may reduce anxiety. Physicists have a developed a "quantum dot thermometer" which is able to take the temperature of single cells -compiled by Surabhi Bhatt, Faiza Arif and Adnin Zaman