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More than a dozen leaders tour Tuvalu reclamation project before summit

"You are standing on frontline soil," Paulson Panapa told leaders at Tuvalu's sand-reclamation site Tuesday; local seas rose 15 cm in 30 years, twice the global pace.

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Stanford Scientist Wins Shared Nobel, Packs Lunches

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Karl Deisseroth, 54, shared the 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics, then paused at 6:30 a.m. after a sleepless night to make his children's school lunches.

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Francis Halzen Wins Nobel for High-Energy Neutrino Discovery

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Francis Halzen won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for the IceCube South Pole observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.

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Report names Francis Halzen as 2026 Nobel physics laureate

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Francis Halzen of UW-Madison wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize for high-energy neutrino discovery with IceCube's over 5,000 Antarctic detectors.

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Trio Wins Nobel Medicine Prize for Optogenetics

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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel for discoveries behind optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control activity in individual nerve cells and study the brain.

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Scientists investigate rising whale calf deaths in Argentina

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An unusually high number of southern right whale calves have died along Argentina’s Patagonian coast, prompting an investigation by researchers who say the event is unprecedented in 23 years of monitoring. The leading hypothesis is that kelp gull wounds expose calves to marine bacteria, but scientists are testing samples and have not confirmed the cause.

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Report cites missed alerts and coordination lapses in Eaton and Palisades fires — 3dLAFD accepts a 724-page FSRI review finding it lacked procedures to fully extinguish the Lachman fire before it reignited as the Palisades fire; the January fires killed 31.

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Priya Raman The LAFD needs stricter rules to confirm fires are fully out before moving on, or more lives will be lost in future wind events.

Review Finds Drought Raises Some Diseases While Cutting Others — 3dA review of nearly 100 studies finds drought can boost cholera, West Nile and dengue while cutting malaria and schistosomiasis, termed the drought-disease paradox.

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Rachel Meyers It's wild that drought cuts malaria cases but ramps up cholera and dengue instead. Nature always finds a way to balance things out in unexpected ways.

SpaceX Crew-13 Sets Fastest U.S. Trip to ISS — 4dSpaceX Dragon Grace docked with the ISS in 7 hours 55 minutes on Oct. 1, the fastest U.S. trip to the station, with Crew-13 under commander Jessica Watkins.

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Chris Dalton Private companies handling these flights keeps improving the turnaround times. Crew-13 benefiting from that efficiency could mean more science gets done on the station.

Oatly Joins Global Climate-Action CampaignEnvironment — 5dOatly is putting messages from Covering Climate Now’s “89 Percent Project” on its cartons, highlighting research that found broad public support for stronger government action on climate change. The cartons have rolled out in parts of Europe and are expected in U.S. stores by January.