Science
Nobel honours superconducting qubits research
John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics in Stockholm for demonstrating quantum effects in macroscopic circuits that enable superconducting qubits.
Hiking keeps Nobel laureate unreachable
Fred Ramsdell won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine but was unreachable while on a digital‑detox hiking trip in the western US, his wife finding the flurry of congratulatory messages.
Endurance sank because design failed
A study in Polar Record found Ernest Shackleton's Endurance was structurally unsuited to compressive Weddell Sea ice and sank on Nov. 21, 1915, weaknesses Shackleton acknowledged.
