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Nobel Prize · SwedenThe physics award is the second 2025 Nobel Prize to be announced this week. Three scientists at American universities won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on quantum mechanics. The winners are John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret, and John M. Martinis.See the Story
Nobel Prize in physics goes to trio of researchers for discoveries in quantum mechanics
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Nobel Prize · SwedenThe 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of researchers – a Japanese, a Briton and a Jordanian – for the development of “metal-organic frameworks.” Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi will share the prize for providing chemists “with new opportunities for solving some of the challenges” the field faces, the Nobel Committee announced Wednesday at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden.See the Story
Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to trio of scientists for developing ‘metal-organic frameworks’
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LGBTQ+ · United StatesThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared receptive to a challenge on free speech grounds to a Colorado law banning psychotherapists from conducting "conversion therapy" that aims to change a minor's sexual orientation or gender identity.
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US Supreme Court seems skeptical toward Colorado LGBT 'conversion therapy' ban
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