Nobel winners, neutrino detectors and nature’s longest-living tortoise
This week’s science news roundup unpacks the 2026 Nobel Prizes—from controlling brain cells with flashes of light to catching ghostly neutrinos from distant galaxies in Antarctic ice to building mirror-image molecules one at a time. Plus, we meet Jonathan, a 194-year-old tortoise whose DNA might hold the secret to a longer life.
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2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to pioneers in ‘mirror’ chemistry
2026 Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Francis Halzen, pioneer of high-energy neutrinos
2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded to scientists behind optogenetics…
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