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- The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for the development of lithium-ion batteries.
- Turkey begins a military offensive into Rojava, Syria, after U.S. troops withdraw from the region.
- Protests in Ecuador calling for the resignation of President Lenín Moreno cause the government to relocate from Quito to Guayaquil.
- The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to Jim Peebles, Michel Mayor (pictured), and Didier Queloz (pictured).
- Scientists discover twenty new moons of Saturn, making it the planet with most known moons in the Solar System.
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