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Billion-dollar donation from Netflix's Reed Hastings leads 2024's list of biggest gifts
Read full article: Billion-dollar donation from Netflix's Reed Hastings leads 2024's list of biggest giftsNetflix co-founder Reed Hastings and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg made the largest contributions in 2024, and financial aid, especially for medical students, got most of the money.
Pelé's family: COVID caused infection, death not imminent
Read full article: Pelé's family: COVID caused infection, death not imminentTwo daughters and one grandson of Brazilian soccer great Pelé said the three-time World Cup winner has been hospitalized since Tuesday to treat a respiratory infection aggravated by COVID-19.
3 physicists share Nobel Prize for work on quantum science
Read full article: 3 physicists share Nobel Prize for work on quantum scienceThree scientists have jointly won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics for their work on quantum information science that has significant applications, including the secure encryption of information.
Handwritten example of famous Einstein equation gets $1.2M
Read full article: Handwritten example of famous Einstein equation gets $1.2MA letter written by Albert Einstein in which he writes out his famous E=mc2 equation has sold at auction for more than $1.2 million, about three times more than it was expected to get.
3 scientists win Nobel physics prize for black hole research
Read full article: 3 scientists win Nobel physics prize for black hole researchOn Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, they shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for advancing our understanding of black holes. He said our galaxy and the galaxies near us “will ultimately get swallowed by one utterly huge black hole. “If you fall into a black hole, then you pretty well inevitably get squashed into this singularity at the end. It was a black hole. Not just an ordinary black hole, but a supermassive one, 4 million times the mass of our sun.