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October 8, 2025
Women Portrayed as Younger Than Men Online, and AI Amplifies the Bias
Sweeping study documents extensive age and gender distortion across online media
October 8, 2025
Omar Yaghi shares 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Yaghi created a field called reticular chemistry, which involves stitching together molecular building blocks to form porous structures — metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) — with myriad applications.
October 7, 2025
John Clarke awarded 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize committee honored Clarke "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit." These circuits were forerunners of the qubits in many quantum computers.