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  1. Chemistry

    Chemistry that works like Hermione’s magic handbag wins a 2025 chemistry Nobel

    Richard Robson, Susumu Kitagawa and Omar Yaghi developed metal-organic frameworks, structures that can collect water from air, capture CO₂ and more.

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  2. Artificial Intelligence

    Biased online images train AI bots to see women as younger, less experienced

    Age and gender bias in online images feeds into AI tools, revealing stereotypes shaping digital systems and hiring algorithms, researchers report.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Are ultraprocessed foods truly addictive?

    Ultraprocessed foods can create powerful pulls similar to those of alcohol, nicotine or opioids, with worrisome consequences for our health.

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  4. Climate

    Antarctic krill eject more food when it’s contaminated with plastic

    Antarctic krill don’t just sequester carbon in their poop; they also make carbon-rich pellets out of leftovers. But microplastics may throw a wrench in the works.

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  5. Quantum Physics

    Discoveries that enabled quantum computers win the Nobel Prize in physics

    In the 1980s, John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis demonstrated quantum effects in an electric circuit, an advance that underlies today’s quantum computers.

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  6. Animals

    What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the beasts’ biology

    A nearly 20,000-year-old woolly rhino horn reveals the extinct herbivores lived as long as modern-day rhinos, despite harsher Ice Age conditions.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Finding immune cells that stop a body from attacking itself wins medicine Nobel

    Shimon Sakaguchi discovered T-reg immune cells. Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell identified the cells’ role in autoimmune disease.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    New oral GLP-1 drugs could offer more options for weight loss

    GLP-1 injections use needles and require refrigeration. Pills that work in a similar way could be a cheaper, simpler solution.

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  9. Anthropology

    What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not wasting anything

    A personal reflection recalls Jane Goodall’s quiet pragmatism, her deep bond with Gombe’s chimps and the scientific legacy of her skeletal collection.

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  10. Microbes

    To make a tasty yogurt, just add ants (and their microbes)

    Spiking milk with live ants makes tangy traditional yogurt. Researchers have identified the ants' microbial pals and enzymes that help the process.

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  11. Science & Society

    Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much of science unseen

    The Nobel Prize might be the most famous science prize but it celebrates just a narrow slice of science and very few scientists.

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  12. Artificial Intelligence

    AI-designed proteins test biosecurity safeguards

    AI edits to the blueprints for known toxins can evade detection. Researchers are improving filters to catch these rare biosecurity threats.

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