The science that could win a Nobel Prize

0:00Well, I received a phone call at uh 9 minutes past 2 my morning and I thought, well, this is obviously a junk call. And >> every October somewhere in the world, a phone rings before sunrise. Last year, the call went to scientists who showed how the immune system keeps itself in check, who built molecular frameworks full of open space, and who made an electric circuit behave like a single quantum particle. Next week, for the second year running, we'll be up at 2 a.m. to find out who

0:42gets the call. Today, we're making our picks. This is from first principles and this is our 2026 Nobel Prize preview.