NPR News: The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to a neutrino detector in Antarctica

The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics has gone to a neutrino detector in Antarctica
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin Madison, who built an observatory under Antarctica.

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NPR News: Vietnamese police arrest 12 suspected of prowling city streets at night, snatching cats for meat

Vietnamese police arrest 12 suspected of prowling city streets at night, snatching cats for meat
State media cited investigators who said the network recruited people to ride motorcycles through neighborhoods at night, trapping up to 10 cats a night.

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NPR News: Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space

Francis Halzen wins Nobel Prize in physics for work on high-energy neutrinos from space
The 82-year-old scientist, originally from Belgium, is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His research into capturing neutrinos at the South Pole dates back to the 1980s.

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NPR News: Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it

Wildfire smoke affects animals in unique ways. Scientists are trying to understand it
The new field of "smoke ecology" examines how wildfire smoke perturbs wild places and animals — and what might be done to prevent its worst mayhem.

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NPR News: Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity

Nobel medicine prize goes to 3 scientists for research into brain activity
The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.

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NPR News: Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down

Just short of its 200th birthday, a landmark natural history museum shuts down
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it.

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NPR News: This week in science: Loud birds, eating with company, and asteroid samples

This week in science: Loud birds, eating with company, and asteroid samples
NPR's Short Wave podcast talks about really loud birds, the benefits of eating with company and what asteroid samples could tell us about the early Earth.

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