📅 Sunday · The week in review
Nobel week honors optogenetics, neutrinos and Navi Pillay
The 2026 Nobel Prizes went to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel (medicine), Francis Halzen (physics), Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai (chemistry), Anne Carson (literature) and Navi Pillay (peace). The economics prize is announced Monday.
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Sources
- CBS News: Navi Pillay wins the Nobel Peace Prize
- NPR: Kagan and Soai win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
- Britannica: 2026 Nobel Prize winners
Also in this edition
- Isaias leaves deaths and outages across the Southeast
- Deadliest attack in years hits Riyadh's airport
- Trump says Ukraine needs a new president
- Brazil heads to a tight Oct. 25 runoff
- Borrowing costs hit a 24-year high; Trump targets Fed's Cook
- Magnitude 7.7 earthquake shakes Panama
- WHO seeks answers after a Russian lab worker's death
- Fired OpenAI safety researchers go public
- About 70 million kids now have 'Trump Accounts'
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