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↗Nobel Peace Prize Goes to Jurist Navi Pillay for 2026
Navi Pillay won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize for decades of work advancing international justice, while Canadian poet Anne Carson took the Literature prize.
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↗2026 Nobel Prizes Honor Optogenetics and Ghost Particles
This year's Nobel Prizes have honored the scientists behind optogenetics in medicine and a physicist who tracked cosmic neutrinos through Antarctic ice.
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↗Swiss Glaciers Post Their Second-Worst Ice Loss Ever
By 2026, the Alps are declining in their hold on Europe’s water supply, with Swiss glaciers dropping 5.5% of their ice volume, the second-largest loss ever.
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↗World Leaders Gather in NYC for Guterres' Final Session
The 81st UN General Assembly opened in New York this week, marking Guterres' final high-level session and kicking off the search for the UN's next leader.
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↗In Nepal-China Floods Leave Hundreds Dead, Thousands Missing
A rock-and-ice collapse high in the Himalayas on August 26 triggered a destructive flood along river valleys near the Nepal-China border.
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↗U.S.-Venezuela Oil Accord Covers 65B Barrels of Oil Reserves
President Donald Trump said the United States had secured majority control of interests tied to more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan oil reserves.
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↗Messi Retires From Argentina's National Team, After 21 Years
Lionel Messi, 39, has announced his retirement from international soccer after a 21-year career with Argentina’s senior national team.
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↗TSMC Adds $100 Billion to Its Arizona Manufacturing Plan
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing will invest another $100 billion into U.S. chipmaking, bringing its total announced American commitment to $265 billion.
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↗Researchers Use AI to Fully Read Herculaneum Scroll Unopened
Vesuvius Challenge researchers virtually unwrapped and read PHerc. 1667, the first Herculaneum scroll ever recovered end to end without being physically opened.
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↗Nvidia, Nokia Expand AI-RAN Work as Carriers Test 6G Rollout
Nvidia and Nokia are developing commercial AI-RAN products that combine accelerated computing with radio-access network software.