Oct 14, 2026
Physicist Kostya Trachenko showed that how runny a liquid can be is set by fundamental constants – adding a second, separate fine-tuning requirement for life beyond the classic stellar one.
Oct 13, 2026
El Niño 2026 has broken daily ocean-temperature records months before its expected peak. Our explainer covers the science, the numbers and what comes next.
Oct 12, 2026
Two Americans won the 2026 economics Nobel for explaining boom-bust cycles from the bottom up: how our expectations about tomorrow shape the economy today.
Oct 11, 2026
All three Nobel science prizes, the most distant radio burst ever, Webb’s weather on a failed star, a blood proteome atlas, and the peanut study: the week in science.
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