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There's been a LOT of news this week, including two big Nobel Prize awards. The prizes celebrated scientists whose discoveries have reached billions of people as well as for discoveries of a universe beyond our solar system. Let’s meet the winners. 1/ wired.trib.al/54560Ep
The Nobel Prizes can sometimes dive into seemingly rarified corners of science, but the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry went to two scientists for their invention at the heart of modern life: the rechargeable lithium-ion battery 2/ wired.trib.al/54560Ep
At 93 billion light years across, our observable universe is full of possibility. The Nobel Prize in physics this year went to three scientists who helped make it a bit more comprehensible. They discovered the first planet orbiting a Sun-like star. 3/ wired.trib.al/oJxhmb1
Before the discovery, the only planets we knew were the eight in our own solar system. It was quite a feat of scientific sleuthing to find this planet. So HOW did the scientists do that exactly? With physics of course: 4/ wired.trib.al/uyzt3x5
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