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The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine recognizes three scientists behind optogenetics, which lets researchers switch specific nerve cells on and off with light. Here is what it made possible for brain research and patients, and where its limits lie.
A UCLA and Ewha Womans University study converted mixed, unsorted plastic into hydrogen of more than 90% purity, with over 75% of the carbon kept in carbonates or liquid residues. The work is still at laboratory scale.
Ninh Binh Province has created a 3,182-hectare reserve for the Delacour's langur, a Critically Endangered monkey found only in Vietnam. A 2022 to 2025 survey counted 562 to 570 of them, though quarrying and hunting remain documented threats.
HALO Trust has concluded 27 years of humanitarian landmine clearance in Kosovo. The cleared land now underpins a $14 billion economy, and the deminers who did the work are training the next generation in Syria and Ukraine.
New research shows the Arctic seafloor safely buries most of the carbon released by thawing permafrost, giving climate models firmer ground to stand on.
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