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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her work promoting democracy and fighting dictatorship https://t.co/fd1UDhZJnn via @WSJ

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In a first, astronomers watched a rogue planet in the Milky Way consume six billion tons of gas and dust per second, a rate never before seen https://t.co/6dU3N4jZ4o via @WSJ

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A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit https://t.co/GakdJ3KdSC via @WSJ

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A trio of professors in the U.S. won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunneling and energy quantization in an electric circuit https://t.co/Vcl5wArrwb via @WSJ

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How many meaningful social relationships can a human brain handle? One scientist has an answer. https://t.co/Yif5XasMIi via @WSJ

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Jane Goodall, the English primatologist and anthropologist who was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at age 91 https://t.co/JlpA9lCUOT via @WSJ

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Scientists have solved the puzzling origin story of the modern spud: “We revealed that tomato is the mother of potato” https://t.co/g77h1TcOKo via @WSJ

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Researchers applied modern-day tools of epidemiology to trace how rumors provoked the “Great Fear” of the French Revolution—possibly offering insight into how unrest erupts today https://t.co/5WgecO8Ugg via @WSJ

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What's next for running shoes? Thick foams and stiff plates confer a biomechanical advantage—but as sneakers grow higher, are there implications for our running experience? https://t.co/qAqrNTag7r via @WSJ

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Science Shorts: NASA announced it has found potential evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. Is it another false alarm? https://t.co/aCP3VgyQaz via @WSJ

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Squirrels developed a surprising (and human-like) trait over millions of years that is a key to their abundance. @NidhiSubs reports for #WSJScienceShorts https://t.co/3C78VMAg5j via @WSJ

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Exclusive: RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies. https://t.co/C224KhHIwx via @WSJ

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Ancient teeth unearthed in eastern Africa reveal a new species of human ancestor https://t.co/JS0DgyZ4Co via @WSJ

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Engineers are designing a new generation of space habitats meant to make life easier for astronauts and appealing to space tourists https://t.co/uwHqUdy6Fw via @WSJ

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Georgia Tech has a strategy for wooing corporate partners. Other universities want in. https://t.co/4bcQcXwIYn via @WSJ

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Universities facing budget shortfalls after federal cuts to science research are looking to Georgia Tech for advice. The school gets nearly 15% of its campus research funds from industry https://t.co/iXa2aB100P via @WSJ

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For the first time scientists have isolated the microbes that help give chocolate its great taste https://t.co/aZMvzSAJxj via @WSJ