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FILE - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, and European Parliament President Martin Schulz, on the stage, attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony, at the City Hall in Oslo, Norway, Monday Dec. 10, 2012. For reasons that are not entirely clear, Nobel decided that the peace prize should be awarded in Norway and the other prizes in Sweden. Nobel historians suspect Sweden’s history of militarism may have been a factor. (AP Photo/Yves Logghe, File)

US moves closer to underground testing of nuclear weapons …

In this photo provided by Sandia National Laboratories, technicians work to test two of the cathode inductive voltage adder cells used in the Scorpius Injector being assembled at Sandia National Labs, June 8, 2023, in Albuquerque, N.M. Unable to physically validate the effectiveness and reliability of nuclear warheads since a 1992 underground test ban, the $1.8 billion Scorpius will allow experts to conduct subcritical experiments as early as 2027 in the atomic equivalent of a wind tunnel built for aircraft prohibited from flying. (Craig Fritz/Sandia National Laboratories via AP)

Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being …

This Oct. 2023 photo made available by the National Park Service shows Human footprints infilled with white gypsum sand. at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Fossil human footprints discovered in White Sands, New Mexico likely date back to between 21,000 and 23,000 years ago, according to two lines of scientific evidence published Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. (NPS via AP)

Fukushima nuclear plant starts 2nd release of treated …

Members of civic groups stage a rally to demand the stop of the Japan's release of treated radioactive water from the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant into ocean, in front of a building which houses Japanese Embassy, in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023. The signs read "Oppose to release the second radioactive water into ocean." (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

3 scientists win Nobel in chemistry for quantum dots research …

Winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist Moungi Bawendi speaks on a phone at his home, in Cambridge, Mass, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

A string of volcanic tremors raises fears of mass evacuations …

Tourists look out as the sun rises over Naples, Italy, on April 12, 2019. Hundreds of small tremors have hit a densely-populated volcanic area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks, raising the spectre of mass evacuations, even though experts don’t see an imminent risk of eruption. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

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How are ancient Roman and Mayan buildings still standing? …

One of four heads of "Bacabs", gods also known as "Pauahtun," stands over Temple 11 in Copan, an ancient Maya site in western Honduras, Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023. Scientists are trying to understand how some ancient buildings have lasted for centuries in hopes of making modern buildings more durable. (AP Photo/Moises Castillo)

Karikó and Weissman win Nobel Prize in medicine for …

In this undated image provided by Penn Medicine, Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman pose for a photo at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Karikó and Weissman won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, for discoveries that enabled the creation of mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 and that could be used to develop other shots in the future. (Peggy Peterson Photography/Penn Medicine via AP)

Environmental groups demand emergency rules to protect …

FILE - A North Atlantic right whale feeds on the surface of Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass., March 28, 2018. A coalition of environmental groups is calling on the federal government to enact emergency rules to protect a vanishing species of whale from lethal collisions with large ships. The groups filed their petition with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Sept. 28 in an effort to protect the North Atlantic right whale. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, File)

Video provides first clear views of WWII aircraft …

In this photo provided by the Naval History and Heritage Command is the Japanese aircraft carrier Kaga at sea in the 1930s. Footage from remote submersibles taken three miles under the Pacific Ocean is giving the world the first detailed glimpse of three World War II aircraft carriers that sunk in the pivotal Battle of Midway, which marked a shift in control of the Pacific naval theater from Japanese to U.S. forces. (Naval History and Heritage Command via AP)

Endangered red wolf can make it in the wild, but …

FILE - A red wolf crosses a road on the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge, Thursday, March 23, 2023, near Manns Harbor, N.C. The endangered red wolf can survive in the wild, but only with “significant additional management intervention,” according to a long-awaited population viability analysis released Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Spotted lanternfly has spread to Illinois, threatening …

FILE - A smashed spotted lanternfly sits on the ground in New York, Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2022. The Illinois Department of Agriculture said a sighting of one of the winged adult insects was reported on Sept. 16, 2023, at an undisclosed location in the state. Department staffers visited that area and found a “moderately populated area of spotted lanternfly,” the state agency said. (AP Photo, File)

Three astronauts return to Earth after a year in …

In this photo taken from video released by Roscosmos space corporation, NASA astronaut Frank Rubio sits in chairs shortly after the landing of the Russian Soyuz MS-23 space capsule about 150 km (90 miles) south-east of the Kazakh town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2023. The Soyuz capsule carrying NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, and Dmitri Petelin, touched down on Wednesday on the steppes of Kazakhstan. (Roscosmos space corporation via AP)