Nature: A high-profile graphene researcher, Walt de Heer of the Georgia Institute of Technology, has written to the Nobel Prize committee for physics, objecting to errors in its explanation of this year’s prize, writes Eugenie Samuel Reich in Nature. De Heer sees a series of errors that he believes overplay the significance of prize recipients Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov’s work at the expense of other researchers. He also claims that other mistakes downplay the work of Philip Kim of Columbia University, whom many researchers think should have shared the prize. The committee is now correcting several points in its document raised by De Heer’s letter.
The finding that the Saturnian moon may host layers of icy slush instead of a global ocean could change how planetary scientists think about other icy moons as well.
Modeling the shapes of tree branches, neurons, and blood vessels is a thorny problem, but researchers have just discovered that much of the math has already been done.
January 29, 2026 12:52 PM
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