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    Muslim-majority Azerbaijan bans Hijab in schools.

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    Nobel Prize 2026 - Economics

    The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2026 to Robert E. Hall Stanford University, CA, USA. Michael Woodford Columbia University, New York, USA. “for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic...
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    Nobel Peace Prize 2026.

    Navanethem "Navi" Pillay Nobel Peace Prize 2026 Born: 23 September 1941, Durban, South Africa Prize motivation: “for her efforts to promote peace and international law” Navanethem “Navi” Pillay has been at the forefront in the development of an international legal order. Ms Pillay was educated...
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    Nobel Prize for Literature - 2026

    The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 has been awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” Anne Carson has, throughout her entire career, combined poetry...
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    Nobel Prize for Chemistry - 2026.

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai "for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis." Some molecules, such as amino acids, exist as two variants that are each other’s mirror image. However, living organisms...
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    Nobel Prize in Physics 2026.

    Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin” Francis Halzen realised that ice at the South Pole could be used to track particles known as neutrinos. His vision and scientific leadership have...
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    Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine - 2026

    KARL DEISSEROTH The Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Stanford University, USA PETER HEGEMANN Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany GEORG NAGEL University of Würzburg, Germany “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics” The Nobel Prize in Physiology or...
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    Transplanted organs adjust to host's biological age.

    Sounds weird... but new research shows that in both mice and humans the transplanted hearts soon adopt the biological age of the recipient, no matter how young they were to begin with. The finding could be important for transplantation, but it also highlights just how complex aging is. So young...
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    A New "Living Medication" for Osteoporosis.

    The true scale of osteoporosis is difficult to fathom. The progressive bone-weakening disease is estimated to affect as many as 500 million people worldwide, triggering up to 37 million fragility fractures a year. That's a bone breaking in someone's body every single second. While there's no...
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    This Machine Made Wartime Germany (Almost) Impossible to Defeat

    There are many videos on the Enigma. This one is from Veritasium.
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    Loss of Y chromosome in men could have health issues including cancer

    Men tend to lose the Y chromosome from their cells as they age. But because the Y bears few genes other than for male determination, it was thought this loss would not affect health. New techniques to detect Y chromosome genes show frequent loss of the Y in tissues of older men. The increase...
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    This Woman Cured Her Cancer with an Insane Method

    When Beata Halassy learned in summer 2020 that her breast cancer had come back, she made a bold decision. As a virologist at the University of Zagreb in Croatia, she knew that researchers around the world were testing virus-based cancer treatments that could avoid the destructive side effects of...
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    New cat species discovered in Bolivia for first time in over 100 years.

    Named Leopardus tilcayo, the new cat looks not unlike a leopard that shrank to the size of a house kitten. Named Leopardus tilcayo, after the word by which locals referred to it, the cat weighs roughly five pounds, is spotted with a slender body and has a light brown coat patterned with dark...
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    T-Rex body temperature close to the human average.

    UCLA scientists have perfected a method to measure a dinosaur's temperature from its teeth and found that T. rex was a relatable 97°F (36°C)—almost the same as humans. The finding, using fossils from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, confirms the "King of the Tyrant Lizards"...
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    Has AI Solved one of the Math's $1 Million Millenium Prize Problems?

    On the morning of Tuesday, September 8, mathematicians at OpenAI announced that a group of 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction, running on an advanced model not available to the public, had found a “singularity” in the Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions — thus resolving...
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    They Accepted Her Impossible Gene Discovery — Then Rejected What She Said It Meant

    The story of Barbara McClintock. A pioneering Scientist and Cytogeneticist. When she entered Cornell University, women weren’t allowed to major in genetics. Instead, McClintock earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in botany and joined an elite group of researchers who studied the...
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    Scientists just made 8 types of DNA to work instead of 4.

    Researchers at UC San Diego have demonstrated that a key cellular enzyme can accurately read an eight-letter genetic alphabet, doubling the four letters used by all known life on Earth. Detailed imaging revealed that RNA polymerase handles synthetic DNA letters in surprisingly similar ways to...

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