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2026 Nobel Prizes

Physicists just saw quarks make waves in the Big Bang's primordial soup

Where are the best places for life in the cosmos? A universe in a supercomputer yields an answer

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Chernobyl particles reveal unexpectedly stable nuclear fuel after 40 years

We've Been Wrong About This Type of Superconductor For The Last 40 Years

Scientists Take a Major Step Toward Smaller, Cheaper Free-Electron Lasers

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Cobalt Catalyst Delivers 99% Yield Without Expensive Precious Metals

Device detects 'Devil's Breath' in beverages in just 10 minutes

Molecular complexity as a signature of life

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How to head into VR without wearing a headset

Out-of-sync sleep schedules may steer people toward AI for dating and job assessments

In rain and darkness, how should self-driving cars trust their sensors?

Modular tire design aims to cut waste and monitor road conditions

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Earth's center is moving, and NASA just measured it. Water sloshing between the land and oceans shifts Earth's center of mass relative to its geometric center

Scientists Find a Mountain Glacier That Survived the Last Ice Age

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In 2026, We're Still Finding Out How The Brain Clears Its Waste. Scientists Just Found a Missing Piece.

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Scientists have found a way to rejuvenate existing cartilage cells, regrow damaged knee cartilage, and potentially open a path toward treating arthritis without joint replacement.

Rosalind Franklin figured out DNA's helical structure before Watson and Crick

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Archaeologists may have finally solved a 100-year-old Florida mystery incorporating crushed fragments of older homeland pottery into new vessels, preserving a physical link to their past across generations.

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The 1,000-Year DNA Mystery: Why Finland's Coast and Inland Are Now Genetically Divided

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory that designed the bombs. Oppenheimer was nominated for the Nobel Prize for physics three times, in 1946, 1951 and 1967, but never won.

Both Niles Bohr and Albert Einstein (1879-1955) received Nobel prizes in physics. Their lifetimes encompassed World War I and World War II. On the eve of World War II, Einstein endorsed a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt alerting him to the potential German nuclear weapons program and recommending that the US begin similar research. Einstein supported the Allies but generally viewed the idea of nuclear weapons with great dismay.

The Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927 featured a debate between Niels Bohr and Albert Einstein about whether the mind and consciousness are part of physics. Bohr thought they were but Einstein thought they were not. Bohr was right.

I've been traveling all over the world for more than 30 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions than can be answered. It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.

Don't Miss: Saturn, Halley's Comet Meteors and the Seven Sisters Light Up October

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Nobel Prize in physics awarded to Francis Halzen for his work detecting ghostly cosmic particles

Two Laser Pulses Unlock Electron States Physicists Had Never Reached Before

Inside Germany's Doomed B8 Nuclear Project

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AI May Seem Human-Like, but That Doesn't Mean People Think It's Conscious

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The Holei Sea Arch, a Centuries-Old Hawaii Wonder, Crumbles Into the Pacific

Scientists finally see how nature moves energy so efficiently

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The death of a Russian plague researcher, explained by a microbiologist

Russia: What is pneumonic plague and how dangerous is it?

Dozens quarantined after Darya Shipilova a 28-year-old female researcher Russian plague laboratory dies of unknown infection

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40 Patients Were Infected by a British Hospital's Water Supply Across 6 Years

Hochul Declares a Measles Emergency as Cases Rise in Rural New York

Pennsylvania's measles outbreak is the largest in decades in the US

Kenya reports first-ever Ebola death

Night Owls Are 70% More Likely to Need a Disability Pension, Study Suggests

Anesthesia Is 180 Years Old And Still a Mystery. A Study of 6 Animal Brains May Have Found Its Common Thread.

New Antibody Treatment Silences Nerve Pain for Days Without Blocking Normal Pain

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Urn with jaguars and skulls: A 1,400-year-old burial container depicting a deceased ruler's arrival to the Maya underworld

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Televangelist Jim Bakker, who built a faith-based empire before resigning amid scandal, dies at 86

How Cornell Punished Each of the 7 Men Accused of Sexual Assault

In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl became famous for skippering a tiny balsawood raft, the Kon-Tiki, on a 6,000km (3,728 miles) journey from Peru to Polynesia. His expedition proved, he said, that ancient cultures could have sailed to, and populated, the South Pacific. He excavated and photographed the Moai on Easter Island for the first time in the 1950's.

The phoenix planet: Astronomers find a world reborn from its star's ashes

This mysterious hole on the Moon may open into a giant cave

Electrical technique could help identify signs of life in space

Gamma-ray search sets new limits on dark matter annihilation in the inner Milky Way

NASA's Bennu Samples Reveal a Surprising Origin Story

Earth and Mars may have formed through different mixtures of planetary building processes, despite developing side by side.

NASA's Perseverance Rover Finds Mars Had a Far More Complicated Water History Than Expected

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Scientists Break 3 World Records With Giant Atoms Built for Quantum Computing

Scientists uncover recurrent patterns within chaotic quantum behavior

After 25 Years, Physicists Can Finally Measure The 'Other' Kind of Quantum Entanglement

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Tires instead of a plug: Electric buses that charge during operation

Robots approaching from behind are perceived as moving faster, experiments revea

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Extreme Heat in Los Angeles Area Expected to Last at Least a Week

America's 'Dead Sea' Was Once a Vast Freshwater Lake 10 Times Its Size

The oceans and the strongest Super El Nino on record

Reading the ocean's snowflakes: How AI decodes marine snow

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Nobel Prize in medicine awarded to trio for technique that helps decode mysteries of the brain

Scientists discover a human brain gene that can jump through DNA

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Cancer-fighting t cells burn out. Scientists may have found a fix

The glue holding your cells together has a surprising second job

Scientists Reveal The Optimal Amount of Sleep For Lower Dementia Risk - 7-8 Hours

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518-Million-Year-Old Fossil Challenges What We Thought Starfish Came From

Ancient Egyptians sacrificed pharaohs' servants so they could continue to serve their king in the afterlife, new study finds

Sunken Silk Road city reveals Central Asia's lost history

1,800-year-old temple to Mars and statue of Victory unearthed at Roman military fort in Germany

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I never teach my students. I only provide the conditions in which they can learn.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.