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The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a Frenchman and an American – for their ...

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The peace prize—which President Donald Trump has openly lobbied for—will be announced Friday. Here's who has won so far.

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A Columbia scientist’s lab revolutionized digital photography with a new kind of imaging now used in more than a billion ...