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This week in science news, we unearthed some Norwegian treasures, revealed the 2023 Nobel Prize winners in the sciences and learned why Earth's inner core is"surprisingly soft."
This week, we also delved deeper into our planet — to its inner core, no less — which, until recently, was long thought to be an unmoving ball of solid metal. Now, scientists believe Earth's inner core might be a lot less rigid than we expected, and this surprising softness may be caused by hyperactive atoms.
And finally, the start of October means it's the season of Nobel Prizes, with the awards for physics, chemistry and medicine handed out for the creation of the tiniest slices of light, the discovery of bizarre quantum dots and seminal work on mRNA vaccines, respectively. And while we're on the subject of strange things on Mars, here are 15 weird objects that look like they shouldn't be there at all.
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Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Iranian women 20 years apart trace tensions with the WestThe Nobel Peace Prize awarded to an Iranian women’s rights activist signaled international support for democracy efforts in the Islamic Republic
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Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Iranian women 20 years apart trace tensions with the WestThe Nobel Peace Prize awarded to an Iranian women’s rights activist signaled international support for democracy efforts in the Islamic Republic. That was 20 years ago and the winner, Shirin Ebadi, faced harassment that ultimately forced her to flee the country. On Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee gave its prestigious Peace Prize to Ebadi’s colleague, Narges Mohammadi, who has been in and out of prison for over a decade because of her activism. The awards bookend a period in which Iran and the United States have seesawed between confrontation and possible reconciliation over restraining Tehran’s nuclear program. Over that time, women’s rights have moved to the forefront of protests in Iran.
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Things to Know about the Nobel PrizesThe annual Nobel Prize announcements are almost over with five of the six awards unveiled so far by prize committees in Stockholm and Oslo.Imprisoned activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for her campaign against the oppression of women and for human...
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