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609 noticiasEl Premio Nobel de Medicina se otorga a tres científicos por la optogenética
El Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina de 2026 fue otorgado a Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann y Georg Nagel por sus descubrimientos sobre los canales iónicos sensibles a la luz y la optogenética, anunció el Comité Nobel en Estocolmo. Los …
Un tribunal surcoreano suspende las decisiones de exclusión por capitalización bursátil; la bolsa detiene otras dos salidas
El Juzgado Civil n.º 51 del Tribunal del Distrito Sur de Seúl concedió el 2 de octubre medidas cautelares que suspenden las decisiones de exclusión de la Bolsa de Corea (Korea Exchange) contra Joo Yeon Tech, cotizada en el KOSPI, y KM Pharm…
AMD's Lisa Su visits Korea, agrees AI chip cooperation with local firms
AMD chair and CEO Lisa Su visited Korea on Oct. 7, about seven months after her March trip, meeting Second Vice Minister Ryu Je-myeong of the Science and ICT Ministry and a roundtable of Korean AI semiconductor and infrastructure companies.…
Nobel Chemistry Prize goes to France's Henri Kagan and Japan's Soai Kenzo
Sweden's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Oct 7 that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Henri Kagan of France and Soai Kenzo of Japan for discovering non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric org…
Nuri rocket completes fifth launch, placing satellites in orbit
South Korea’s Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. local time on Oct 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying 15 satellites, the most in its history, and placed the five main ultra-small cluster satellites in their target orbit. Ne…
Tropical Storm Isaias forms off Mexico, forecast to hit US Gulf Coast as hurricane
Tropical Storm Isaias formed early Wednesday in warm waters off eastern Mexico with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph, and forecasters expect it to strengthen into the first hurricane of the Atlantic season before reaching the U.S. Gulf Coa…
US 10- and 30-year Treasury yields hit 24-year highs as global bond sell-off deepens
Yields on 10- and 30-year U.S. Treasury bonds hit 24-year highs on Wednesday, with the 10-year reaching 5.36% and the 30-year 5.73%, as a global bond sell-off deepened. Yields eased later after a strongly bid $39 billion auction of 10-year …
Nobel chemistry prize goes to Japan's Kenzō Soai and France's Henri Kagan
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Kenzō Soai, 76, an emeritus professor at Tokyo University of Science, and Henri Kagan of France, for the discovery of nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis. Soai…
Identifican a madre e hijo de Bermudas en accidente de ambulancia aérea frente a Nantucket
La policía de Bermudas identificó a Marilyn Lavonne Bean, de 66 años, y a su hijo Sergio Wayne Lottimore, de 41, ambos ciudadanos bermudeños, como los dos pasajeros de una ambulancia aérea Gulfstream G100 que desapareció frente a Nantucket,…
Los índices bursátiles rusos suben; el MOEX gana un 1,43 % al mediodía
Los índices bursátiles rusos subieron el 5 de octubre, con el índice de la Bolsa de Moscú subiendo un 1,43 % respecto al cierre anterior hasta 2.309,86 a las 12:00 hora de Moscú, según Vedomosti. El índice RTS subió un 1,43 % hasta 871,61 y…
Ransomware attack on SoftBank unit's cloud affects 495 firms, municipalities
IDC Frontier, a SoftBank subsidiary, said part of its IDCF Cloud service was hit by unauthorized access that caused an outage from around 03:40 on October 7. The affected area is the East Japan Region 1, served by a data center in Shirakawa…
Henri Kagan y Kenso Soai ganan el Premio Nobel de Química 2026
Henri B. Kagan y Kenso Soai ganaron el Premio Nobel de Química 2026, anunciado el miércoles en la Real Academia Sueca de Ciencias en Estocolmo, por sus trabajos sobre moléculas que existen como imágenes especulares entre sí. Kagan demostró …
Abu Dhabi's AI Everything opens with 400 exhibitors alongside Global Food Week
AI Everything 2026 opened on 6 October at the ADNEC Centre Abu Dhabi and runs to 7 October, with WAM reporting 400 exhibitors and 180 speakers, and Economy Middle East reporting more than 400 companies, 200-plus investors managing about $10…
SpaceX seeks $40 billion in borrowing to buy Nvidia chips, FT reports
SpaceX is in talks to borrow $40 billion to fund a purchase of Nvidia chips, according to a Financial Times report cited by Reuters and MarketWatch. Bloomberg said it understands the financing would be among the biggest-ever debt financings…
Nuri declared a success on fifth flight; five cluster satellites make contact
South Korea's Nuri rocket lifted off at 12:25 p.m. from the Naro Space Center in Goheung and the Korea Aerospace Administration declared the fifth flight a success, saying all 15 satellites were placed in orbit. Officials said 14 of the 15 …
El tifón n.º 27 avanza hacia el norte cerca de Ogasawara mientras se forman los tifones n.º 28 y n.º 29
El tifón n.º 27, descrito por la Agencia Meteorológica de Japón como grande y muy fuerte, avanzó hacia el norte sobre aguas cercanas a las islas Ogasawara y se preveía que se acercara a las islas con intensidad muy fuerte desde la tarde del…
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.” …
2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize awarded to Kagan and Soai for chiral synthesis work
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for discovering nonlinear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, according to Chinese reports. Their work explains how reactions can favor on…
Nobel chemistry prize goes to Japan's Soai Kenso and France's Henri Kagan
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on 7 October that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Soai Kenso, 76, professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Science, and Henri Kagan of France, for work on nonlinear effects and autocatal…
Dubai launches Create AI Agents Championship with prizes over Dh2.5m
Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed, Crown Prince of Dubai, launched the Create AI Agents Championship at an awards ceremony in Dubai on Wednesday, with total prize money exceeding Dh2.5 million. The competition accepts ideas, prototypes and minimum…