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Nobel Prizes: 5 Unlikely Winner Reactions, From the Unbothered to the Downright Mad -- Apparently people just have better things to do than win the world's most prestigious prize.

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Scientists Agree That Everyone Hates Your Terrible Zoom Mic -- A new study from Yale confirms what everyone already knew: we're all judging you when your mic sounds cheap and bad on a conference call.

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This $35,000 Computer Is Powered by Trapped Human Brain Cells -- A company is selling what it calls the world's first "code deployable biological computer."

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AI Could Be Making Scientists Less Creative -- A new study examining 68 million scientific papers shows using AI boosts researchers' careers, but narrows the questions they ask.

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Scientists Trained a Lump of Goo to Play Pong -- The goo only got a little better at playing pong, but scientists are confident it could improve if we teach it to feel pain.

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An Imposter Claiming to Be an Astronaut Wooed a Japanese Woman Into Paying for a 'Return Ticket to Earth' -- The space romance unfolded through Instagram, but the victim soon grew suspicious of the astronaut's monetary demands.

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You Won't Have Fauci to Kick Around Anymore -- The country's top public health official is retiring in December after decades of helping to manage major disease outbreaks, including the covid-19 pandemic.

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These Are the Degrees of the Future -- Gizmodo and Statista identified 25 fields of study that most reflect the technologies, cultural shifts, and challenges of the mid-21st century.

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China Publishes, Then Deletes Report of Potential Alien Signals -- Observations from a radio telescope almost certainly aren't evidence of aliens, but we'd love to know more about these alleged signals.

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How to Watch the Government's UFO Hearing -- Congress is holding its first hearing on unidentified aerial phenomenon in decades.

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For the First Time in Decades, Congress Will Hold Public Hearings on UFOs -- The hearing comes after the Pentagon report on unidentified aerial phenomena was released last June.

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