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William Nordhaus and Paul Romer

Economics Nobel prize given for putting a price tag on climate change

8 October 2018

The 2018 Sveriges Riksbank prize in economic sciences has gone to Paul Romer and William Nordhaus for integrating climate change and technology into macroeconomics
Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble Space Telescope taken out of action by faulty gyroscopes

8 October 2018

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has been temporarily shut down as technical faults have hampered its ability to point in the right direction

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