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October 12, 2026 Rotating work partners taught strangers better than keeping one friend The researchers built a working factory in India and recruited Hindu and Muslim men to produce goods in pairs.
October 10, 2026 Data center heat, saved in rock until winter In Verona, Wisconsin, the health software company Epic Systems has spent two decades drilling roughly 6,100 wells, 300 to 800 feet deep, that heat and cool about 40 buildings on its campus using waste heat from a 3.5-megawatt data center.
October 7, 2026 A cubic kilometer of Antarctic ice wins the physics Nobel Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin, Madison won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.
October 7, 2026 Old dogs may be a better Alzheimer's model than mice A neurotoxicologist and colleagues report in npj Dementia that the aging dog brain changes in ways similar to a human brain with dementia.
October 6, 2026 A pond alga's light sensor wins the Nobel The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to Karl Deisseroth (55, Stanford), Peter Hegemann (72, Humboldt University) and Georg Nagel (73, University of Würzburg) for optogenetics.
October 5, 2026 A savings plan that cut heavy drinking by 26% in Kenya A randomized controlled trial in Kenya gave participants a savings intervention with lottery-based interest, goal-setting support and savings reminders.