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In the News
- The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to South Korean poet and novelist Han Kang.
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is divided, with half awarded to Demis Hassabis (pictured) and John M. Jumper for their work on protein structure prediction and the other half to David Baker for his work on computational protein design.
- Hurricane Milton makes landfall in the U.S. state of Florida.
- John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton receive the Nobel Prize in Physics for their research in machine learning with artificial neural networks.
Did You Know...
- ... that Maximiliano Hernández Martínez (pictured) believed that hanging colored lights across San Salvador would cure a smallpox epidemic?
- ... that a lane behind a tenement in Edinburgh is decorated as a Wild West town?
- ... that a German pastor let a deposed East German head of state stay in his house?
- ... that the 2024 American remake of Have I Got News for You has a permanent host, something that the original show dispensed with in 2002?
- ... that when guitarist Pete Wade was 19, he moved to Nashville with $3, his suitcase, two ham sandwiches, and the telephone numbers of Don Helms and Jerry Rivers?
- ... that a tornado near Chicago was produced by a storm with a hydrodynamical helicity four times higher than the threshold favorable for tornadogenesis?
- ... that Victoria Siddall is the first woman to be appointed the director of the 168-year-old National Portrait Gallery in London?
- ... that North Korean series The Taehongdang Party Secretary was created to help promote the consumption of potatoes during a rice shortage?
- ... that a baby penguin from Australia is "an absolute unit"?