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French chemist Henri Kagan and Japanese chemist Kenso Soai have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2026 for their work showing how chemical reactions can amplify small asymmetries in molecules. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said they have been feted “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis”. Nobel...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for the discovery of “non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday (October 7, 2026). The statement by the Academy said that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 recognises discoveries...

This year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai for the discovery of “non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis”, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Wednesday (October 7, 2026). The statement by the Academy said that the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2026 recognises discoveries...

The vast rural expanses of India are often overshadowed by the country’s urban-centric digital growth; digital isolation has long stifled progress. Starlink’s ambitious satellite network now promises to turn night into day, literally and figuratively, by beaming high-speed internet across terrains where cables don’t reach and towers don’t exist. But as this technological advance prepared...

A: Sometimes you get up from your desk because you need scissors and walk into the next room. Suddenly you stop and find your brain has stopped working. Experts have some explanations for why this happens. For one, our memory depends on context, and at your desk, there are cues, e.g. tape, to remind you...

NASA wants to install a nuclear reactor near the moon’s south pole by 2030. Its planned output, 20 kilowatt (kW), could power a few households on earth. Russia’s planned reactor for the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), led by China, will produce around 10 kW. But the fact that they are nuclear makes them significant....

The story so far: Belgian-born U.S. physicist Francis Halzen has received the physics Nobel Prize for 2026 for helping build the IceCube observatory in Antarctica — a telescope that has no mirrors or lenses and doesn’t even point at the stars. Using 5,000 sensors buried deep in the ice, IceCube has explored what natural processes...

NASA wants to install a nuclear reactor near the moon’s south pole by 2030. Its planned output, 20 kilowatt (kW), could power a few households on earth. Russia’s planned reactor for the International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), led by China, will produce around 10 kW. But the fact that they are nuclear makes them significant....

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Francis Halzen for his contributions to IceCube, a neutrino observatory in the South Pole, and for the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. While there are several massive detectors for these extremely elusive particles, IceCube is designed to find high-energy neutrinos that are believed...

The IceCube neutrino observatory is a device at the Earth’s South Pole that detects subatomic particles called neutrinos. It was built and is maintained by the IceCube Collaboration, which consists of many universities worldwide led by the University of Wisconsin, Madison. IceCube consists of thousands of sensors buried more than 1.4 km beneath the ice...