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Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize created the lithium-ion batteries that we use in smart phones, electric cars and wind farms. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, …

A Canadian American cosmologist and two Swiss scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for exploring the evolution of the universe and discovering a new kind of planet. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news …

A group including former Genesis frontman Peter Gabriel is working on what they’re calling the Interspecies Internet. It would reimagine how we could potentially interact with intelligent animals and how they could communicate among themselves. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that …

A man paralyzed from the shoulders down has been able to walk using an experimental robotic system controlled by signals from his brain. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, …

Scientists had already speculated that the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate had a tear in it, and a recent study from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, uncovered data that all but confirms it. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that …

For the past few years, Boston Dynamics has impressed its YouTube audience with videos of Spot opening doors and dancing to pop songs, and now this skillful robot is going on the market. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, …

One of Jupiter’s largest moons, Io, also happens to be the solar system’s most volcanic object. A new five-year study of the celestial object has revealed details that prove it’s even stranger than astronomers originally thought. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands …

The next generation of cell service, 5G, touts great consumer benefits including high speeds, low latency, and better reliability. But some experts are worried 5G could interfere with weather-tracking systems, making weather forecasts as much as 30 percent less accurate. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative …

Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited mob movie “The Irishman” is a decades-long epic that uses de-aging visual effects on the film’s stars — Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino. The latest Mach at the Movies looks at how far this technology has come to give us younger versions of these highly familiar faces. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » …

Special thanks to John Gunstad, professor with the Department of Psychological Sciences at Kent State University, for speaking with us about his cutting-edge research on how losing weight affects brain function. Following is the transcript of the video: Here’s what losing weight does to your body and brain. During the first week, you may find it easy to lose weight …

When astronaut Stuart Roosa boarded for the Apollo 14 in 1971he wasn’t alone. He was carrying a canister the size of a soda can, filled with 500 seeds from various tree species. Almost 50 years later, some of those so-called Moon Trees are still growing across the United States. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: …

For many scientists, Greenland is a place where global warming’s impact is most apparent — and where the effects of rising temperatures, warming oceans and melting ice could have the most dire consequences. For the people who make their home on this massive, ice-covered island, the realities of climate change are complex, bringing both unexpected benefits and acute challenges. » Subscribe to …

By some estimates, as little as eight percent of the population are southpaws. And now, for the first time, scientists have discovered the genetic links connected to left-handedness—plus a core advantage that lefties may have over righties. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news …

Dorian’s 1-mile-per-hour slog across the Bahamas could become more commonplace. The powerful hurricane made landfall as a Category 5 storm and stayed put for two days. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News …

The chairman of the Indian Space Research Organization Kailasavadivoo Sivan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to disappointed employees after the agency lost contact with its Chandrayaan-2 Vikram lunar lander. » Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC » Watch more NBC video: http://bit.ly/MoreNBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging …