Template:In the news
- Judge Brett Kavanaugh (pictured) is confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States to replace the seat held by Anthony Kennedy.
- Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict".
- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to Frances Arnold for her work on directed evolution of enzymes and to George Smith and Greg Winter for their work on phage display of peptides and antibodies.
- Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on laser science.
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