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10 noticiasMuere a los 93 años Tsuneko Okazaki, codescubridora de los fragmentos de Okazaki en la replicación del ADN
Tsuneko Okazaki (岡崎恒子), profesora distinguida de la Universidad de Nagoya que descubrió el mecanismo de la replicación de los genes, murió el 22 de septiembre a los 93 años por una hemorragia gastrointestinal, anunció el 9 de octubre el Sis…
Japón planea investigar cohetes para lanzar rápidamente satélites de reemplazo
El Ministerio de Defensa japonés anunció el 9 de octubre que estudiaría el desarrollo de cohetes para lanzar rápidamente satélites de reemplazo si los existentes perdieran sus funciones por ataques, interferencias o fallos. Los informes sit…
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…
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…
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.” …
Wooden tablet recording sale of nuhi woman found at Nara's Heijo-kyo site
Nara city said a wooden tablet recording the sale of a “nuhi” — a person of the lower senmin status under the ancient ritsuryo system — was excavated from a well at the Heijo-kyo site, the first such mokkan found in Japan. The tablet record…
El Nobel de Medicina va para tres investigadores por la optogenética
El Instituto Karolinska anunció el 5 de octubre que el Premio Nobel de Fisiología o Medicina de 2026 es para Karl Deisseroth, de la Universidad de Stanford; Peter Hegemann, de la Universidad Humboldt de Berlín, y Georg Nagel, de la Universi…
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…
Nobel chemistry prize goes to Japan's Soai Kenzo, third straight year of Japanese wins
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Soai Kenzo, 76, a professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Science, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported, giving Japan a laureate for a third consecutive year. This year's Nobel announcements began …
NASA releases Mars dawn image taken by Curiosity rover, showing wind-carved terrain
NASA released an image of a Martian dawn taken by its Curiosity rover, showing terrain carved by wind. The image was captured on the morning of August 11 by a camera on the rover, northwest of the roughly 5-kilometre-high Sharp mountain, wh…