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Nobel Prize · SwedenJoel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the 2025 Nobel economics prize for “having explained innovation-driven economic growth,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Monday.See the Story
Nobel Prize in economics awarded to Mokyr, Aghion and Howitt for explaining ‘innovation-driven’ growth
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SpaceX · TexasThe SpaceX Super Heavy Booster separates from the Starship spacecraft as it launches on its eleventh test flight at 6:15 PM from Launch Complex 1 at Starbase, Texas on Monday October 13, 2025.
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SpaceX Launches 11th Starship Test Flight in Texas
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Environment · United StatesCoral reefs around the globe have for years suffered publicly in warming oceans, periodically making headlines when iconic underwater landscapes lose their colors and wither during repeated mass bleaching events caused by climate change.
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Coral reefs become first environmental system on Earth to pass climate "tipping point," report says
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