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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 wsj.com/world/americas… via @WSJ

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 wsj.com/science/space-… via @WSJ

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 wsj.com/science/nobel-… via @WSJ

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 wsj.com/science/nobel-… via @WSJ

How many meaningful social relationships can a human brain handle? One scientist has an answer. wsj.com/science/social… via @WSJ

Jane Goodall, the English primatologist and anthropologist who was considered the world's foremost expert on chimpanzees, has died at age 91 wsj.com/science/jane-g… via @WSJ

Scientists have solved the puzzling origin story of the modern spud: “We revealed that tomato is the mother of potato” wsj.com/science/potato… via @WSJ

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 wsj.com/science/french… via @WSJ

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? wsj.com/tech/running-s… via @WSJ

Science Shorts: NASA announced it has found potential evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars. Is it another false alarm? wsj.com/science/space-… via @WSJ

Squirrels developed a surprising (and human-like) trait over millions of years that is a key to their abundance. @NidhiSubs reports for #WSJScienceShorts wsj.com/science/rodent… via @WSJ

Exclusive: RFK Jr., HHS to Link Autism to Tylenol Use in Pregnancy and Folate Deficiencies. wsj.com/health/healthc… via @WSJ

Ancient teeth unearthed in eastern Africa reveal a new species of human ancestor wsj.com/science/human-… via @WSJ

Engineers are designing a new generation of space habitats meant to make life easier for astronauts and appealing to space tourists wsj.com/tech/space-hab… via @WSJ

Georgia Tech has a strategy for wooing corporate partners. Other universities want in. wsj.com/us-news/educat… via @WSJ

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 wsj.com/us-news/educat… via @WSJ

For the first time scientists have isolated the microbes that help give chocolate its great taste wsj.com/science/chocol… via @WSJ