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Ideas & Opinions
Ideas & Opinions
Nobel Prizes Week: This Week in Science (Oct 5-11, 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.
Exoplanet Weather: Webb Watches Clouds Shift on a Distant World
Webb watched water clouds thicken and thin on WISE 0855, the coldest known brown dwarf: the first weather report from beyond our solar system.
Fast Radio Bursts, Explained: The Farthest Signal Ever Caught
A millisecond flash of radio waves from 10 billion years ago is the most distant fast radio burst ever seen, and it lit up the invisible matter between galaxies.
Mirror Molecules, Explained: The 2026 Chemistry Nobel
Your hands are mirror images. So are many molecules of life. The 2026 chemistry Nobel went to the two chemists who taught reactions to pick one.
Life on Mars, Explained: Ancient Molecules, New Clues
Curiosity found chain-like carbon molecules in a 3.7-billion-year-old lakebed. A 2026 study says non-biological sources cannot explain them all.
Business
Business
GPU Compute Futures: When AI Chips Become a Market
Cash-settled futures on Nvidia-class GPU rentals are arriving on major exchanges — turning AI compute into something traders can hedge like oil.
2026 Economics Nobel, Explained: Boom and Bust Cycles
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.
Interviews
Interviews
Chabacano Poetry: A New Anthology in Asia’s Spanish Creole
Editor Jerome Herrera on Sombra y Luz, a new anthology of Chabacano poetry from Zamboanga, and the debate over how Spanish Asia’s only Spanish-based creole should sound.
Jaume Amigó: Painting Silence as a Form of Resistance
Catalan artist Jaume Amigó explains how memory, Bashō, Japan and Morocco shape his abstract painting — and why silence and beauty can resist a world of brutal images.
Lifestyle
Lifestyle
Cats and Happiness: What a 93-Nation Study Found
A 93-nation study links national cat density to subjective well-being, but the cat parasite Toxoplasma gondii points the other way – and the authors warn against individual-level conclusions.
Big Dogs Age Faster, Explained: The Jumping-Gene Clue
A new Science study of nearly 900 dogs points to ‘jumping genes’ losing their epigenetic control in larger breeds – the first molecular explanation for the dog-aging paradox.
Environment
Environment
El Niño 2026, Explained: Why This One Is Breaking Records
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.
El Niño 2026, Explained: Why This One Is Breaking Records
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.
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Art & Culture
Art & Culture
Louis Pope Gratacap and the First T. Rex in Fiction
Museum curator Louis Pope Gratacap’s 1915 lost-world novel The New Northland may be the first fiction to feature Tyrannosaurus — months before the AMNH skeleton debut.
The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary: A Plant That Grew Sheep
For centuries Europeans debated a plant that grew woolly lambs. Thom Sliwowski traces the Vegetable Lamb of Tartary from Mandeville to fern roots and cotton.
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