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434 storiesNobel 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 the discovery of nonlinear effects and …
Rospotrebnadzor calls Irkutsk region situation stable after reports of plague
Rospotrebnadzor said the sanitary-epidemiological situation in Irkutsk Oblast, including the cities of Irkutsk and Shelekhov, is stable, in connection with the case of an employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute of Siberia and the Far …
NASA delays Crew Dragon undocking from ISS to no earlier than 7 October
NASA and SpaceX have postponed the undocking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft of the Crew-12 mission from the International Space Station, TASS, iXBT and Interfax reported. The departure was originally expected on 5 October and is now set for …
Kremlin: Russia informed WHO of Irkutsk region situation after worker death
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia has informed the World Health Organization about the situation in the Irkutsk region, following the death of an employee of the Irkutsk anti-plague institute. Peskov also said he had no informatio…
Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai win 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry
Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai won the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry, announced Wednesday at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, for work on molecules that exist as mirror images of each other. Kagan showed in the 1980s that …
Korean court suspends market-cap delisting decisions; exchange halts two more exits
Seoul Southern District Court Civil Division 51 granted injunctions on Oct 2 suspending the Korea Exchange's delisting decisions against KOSPI-listed Joo Yeon Tech and KOSDAQ-listed KM Pharma until a main ruling. The court questioned the 45…
Russia's Finance Ministry places 39.13 bln rubles of OFZ 26252 bonds at auction
Russia's Finance Ministry held an auction on 7 October for federal loan bonds of the OFZ-PD 26252 series and placed 39.13 bln rubles of the issue, TASS reported, citing demand of 134.371 bln rubles. The ministry had announced the auction a …
Russia quarantines hospital as lab worker’s death puts nearly 200 under observation
A female employee of the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute of Siberia and the Far East died last week of pneumonia of unknown cause, Russian authorities said, and a hospital in the town of Shelekhov was placed under quarantine. Officia…
S&P 500 sets record high, closes above 7,800 for first time
The S&P 500 rose 0.6% on Tuesday to a record high, surpassing its August peak, CNBC reported it touched an intraday record of 7,844.52 and closed above 7,800 for the first time. The rally came amid elevated oil prices and rising bond yields…
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…
Nuri rocket lifts off on fifth flight carrying record 15 satellites
South Korea's Nuri rocket launched at 12:25 p.m. on Oct. 7 from the Naro Space Center in Goheung, after the launch management committee confirmed the time that morning. The rocket carries 15 satellites — five NEOANSAT microsatellite cluster…
Russian anti-plague lab researcher dies; US and EU say they are monitoring
A 28-year-old female researcher at the Irkutsk anti-plague research institute in Shelekhov, Russia, died after being diagnosed with pneumonia of unknown cause, the state agency Rospotrebnadzor said. About 200 people who may have had contact…
Trump says Putin call scheduled soon on suspected Siberia plague case
President Donald Trump said Tuesday he has a call scheduled “very soon” with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a suspected plague case. The case centres on Daria Shipilova, a 28-year-old lab technician who died Friday in a hospita…
Nobel medicine prize goes to three researchers for optogenetics
The Karolinska Institute announced on October 5 that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine goes to Karl Deisseroth of Stanford University, Peter Hegemann of Humboldt University of Berlin and Georg Nagel of the University of Würzbur…
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 …
Nuri rocket lifts off at 12:25 with 15 satellites on fifth flight
South Korea's Nuri launch vehicle lifted off at 12:25 local time on Oct 7 from the second pad of the Naro Space Center in Goheung, carrying five ultra-small cluster satellites and 10 cubesats. Kerosene and liquid oxygen loading was complete…
Nobel physics prize goes to IceCube neutrino researcher Francis Halzen
Sweden's Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on 6 October that the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen of the University of Wisconsin-Madison for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery…
Two scientists win 2026 Nobel Chemistry Prize for asymmetric synthesis work
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry to French chemist Henri B. Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis, Chin…
Square Enix opens pre-orders for Dragon Quest Weapons Collection Vol.2, out Jan 30, 2027
Square Enix has opened pre-orders for “Dragon Quest Weapons Collection Vol.2,” a second series of 1/12-scale figures of weapons and shields from the Dragon Quest games. The six-item lineup includes “Hayabusa no Ken,” “Tenkuu no Ken,” “Battl…
Chinese team builds first 3D cell atlas of rice life cycle, published in Cell
A Chinese multi-institution team said it has constructed the world’s first three-dimensional spatiotemporal cell atlas covering rice from seed germination to flowering and fruiting, with the paper published online in Cell on the evening of …