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Fighting Fear with Facts: Navigating Infectious Disease Information [Sponsored]

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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 ... Show more

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