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7 storiesTwo killed in Ukrainian drone attack on car in Kherson region, governor says
A Ukrainian drone struck a passenger car near Rykovo in the Genichesk district of Kherson region, killing local baker Alexander Kolotun and his 15-year-old daughter Anna, regional governor Vladimir Saldo said. The car was destroyed about 12…
Japan PM Takaichi calls Nobel chemistry laureate Soai to offer congratulations
Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae telephoned Soai Kenzo, an emeritus professor at Tokyo University of Science, on the evening of Oct 7 to congratulate him on winning the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, telling him she was “very proud as a Japanese.” …
Roszdravnadzor denies shortage of anti-anxiety drug Atarax in Russia
Roszdravnadzor said there are no signs of a shortage of the prescription anti-anxiety drug Atarax in Russia, according to Kommersant, Vedomosti and RBC. The regulator said more than 512,000 Atarax packages are in civil circulation and that …
Russia says employee at plague research institute has pneumonia of unknown cause
Russia's consumer rights and public health watchdog said a sick employee of the Siberia and Far East Plague Control Research Institute in Irkutsk was diagnosed with “pneumonia of unknown cause”, after online rumours that a staff member had …
Chinese scientists develop new high-efficiency carbon-capture membrane
A team at Tianjin University led by Jiang Zhongyi and He Guangwei has developed a new all-organic mixed-matrix membrane for carbon capture, according to CLS and Jiemian. The outlets said the work overcomes the difficulty of balancing membra…
US government, Google join Zuckerberg-backed Biohub in $1.8B AI biology push
Biohub, the nonprofit founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, is leading a $1.8 billion collaboration with the US Department of Energy, the National Institutes of Health, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs and Meta to build a “universa…
Crew Dragon with Russian cosmonaut Fedyaev undocks from ISS
The SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying the Crew-12 mission, including Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, undocked from the International Space Station at 15:05 Moscow time on 7 October, according to Roscosmos and SpaceX. The crew spent almost eig…