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The OED will publish its next update in September.
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NEW YORK， Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Oil prices suffered big losses Friday after data showed the U.S. oil drillers added seven rigs for the week.
Oilfield services company Baker Hughes said Friday that the number of rigs operating in U.S. fields rose by 7 to 414 this week， marking the 10th week of increase in the past 11 weeks.
On Thursday， oil prices surged， with both U.S. oil and Brent crude jumping over 4 percent， as official data showed a surprisingly large drawdown in U.S. oil stockpiles.
However， traders believed that the U.S. crude inventories will rebound strongly next week as the big draw was caused mainly by Tropical Storm Hermine in the Gulf Coast， whose influence is temporary.
Investor sentiment was also dented by a stronger U.S. dollar， which made the dollar-denominated oil less attractive for holders of other currencies.
The dollar index， which tracks the greenback against six major peers， was up 0.32 percent at 95.334 in late trading Friday.
The West Texas Intermediate for October delivery dropped 1.74 U.S. dollars to settle at 45.88 dollars a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange， while Brent crude for November delivery slumped 1.98 dollars to close at 48.01 dollars a barrel on the London ICE Futures Exchange. Enditem
WASHINGTON， Aug. 8 (Xinhua) -- Scientists said Monday they are now "99 percent" certain that a hypothesized particle known as the "sterile neutrino" does not exist after analyzing two years' worth of data from an icy particle detector at the South Pole.
"Failing to detect the elusive particle ... means physics remains in the dark about the origin of the tiny neutrino mass， or why they have mass in the first place，" Francis Halzen， principal investigator for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory， a massive detector embedded deep in the ice beneath Antarctica， said in a statement.
Neutrinos are ghostly particles with almost no mass and only rarely interact with matter. Trillions of neutrinos will course through your body in the time it takes to read this sentence.
There are three known types of neutrinos: muon， electron and tau. Hints of a possible fourth type of neutrino have come from several experiments. Known as the "sterile neutrino，" the hypothesized particle would not interact at all with matter except， possibly， through gravity.
If discovered， the sterile neutrino would help explain a number of puzzles， such as the mismatch between matter and antimatter in the universe and the origin of dark matter.
The new study， published in the U.S. journal Physical Review Letters， included two independent analyses of data from the massive Antarctic detector -- each consisting of a year's worth of data or about 100，000 neutrino events.
The groups scoured the hundreds of thousands of neutrino events that reached the IceCube detector after coursing through the Earth from the sky in the northern hemisphere.
The search focused on neutrino events occurring in the 320 GeV to 20 TeV energy range. In this range， Halzen said， sterile neutrinos would produce a very distinctive signature.
However， the striking feature associated with the sterile neutrino was nowhere to be found， said Halzen， also a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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