This week in science news, we unearthed some Norwegian treasures, revealed the 2023 Nobel Prize winners in the sciences and learned why Earth's inner core is"surprisingly soft."
This week, we also delved deeper into our planet — to its inner core, no less — which, until recently, was long thought to be an unmoving ball of solid metal. Now, scientists believe Earth's inner core might be a lot less rigid than we expected, and this surprising softness may be caused by hyperactive atoms.
And finally, the start of October means it's the season of Nobel Prizes, with the awards for physics, chemistry and medicine handed out for the creation of the tiniest slices of light, the discovery of bizarre quantum dots and seminal work on mRNA vaccines, respectively. And while we're on the subject of strange things on Mars, here are 15 weird objects that look like they shouldn't be there at all.