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Mosquito factory hopes to solve dengue crisis — MercoPress

7Nov

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Mosquito factory hopes to solve dengue crisis — MercoPress

Brazil: Mosquito factory hopes to solve dengue crisis Monday, October 6, 2025 - 09:16 UTC The two Oxitec methods cannot be used simultaneously A mosquito factory in Campinas, in the state of São Paulo, uses two new complementary technologies to reduce the transmission of dengue fever by controlling Aedes aegypti populations. The new factory, opened last Thursday, will have the capacity to supply up to 190 million Wolbachia-infected mosquito eggs per week, enough to protect up to 100 million people per year, it was explained. The factory also manufactures products from the Aedes do Bem line, capable of reducing the p...

Nobel Prize in Medicine for trio who investigated autoimmune diseases — MercoPress

6Nov

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Nobel Prize in Medicine for trio who investigated autoimmune diseases — MercoPress

Nobel Prize in Medicine for trio who investigated autoimmune diseases Monday, October 6, 2025 - 21:58 UTC “Their discoveries were fundamental to understanding how the immune system works”, declared the president of the jury, Olle Kämpe. The 2025 Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, from the United States, and Shimon Sakaguchi, from Japan, for their discoveries on peripheral immune tolerance. The winners identified the mechanisms, involving specific T cells (such as the previously discovered CD25 cells), responsible for the autoregulation of the immune system. This m...

Falkor (Also) sets sail after bureaucratic delays — MercoPress

6Nov

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Falkor (Also) sets sail after bureaucratic delays — MercoPress

Falkor (Also) sets sail after bureaucratic delays Tuesday, October 7, 2025 - 10:20 UTC Scientists on board will conduct research in marine geology and physical oceanography After days of delays due to bureaucratic problems, the Falkor (Too) left the port of Buenos Aires for another joint underwater mission by the Schmidt Oceanographic Institute and the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet) of Argentina. (See also: https://es.mercopress.com/2025/10/03/buque-cientifico-varado-en-buenos-aires) Now, the scientific team intends to explore the underwater canyons of the Argentine continental slop...

Nobel Prize in Physics for researchers from the US, UK and France specializing in quantum mechanics — MercoPress

6Nov

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Nobel Prize in Physics for researchers from the US, UK and France specializing in quantum mechanics — MercoPress

Nobel Prize in Physics for researchers from the US, UK and France specializing in quantum mechanics Wednesday, October 8, 2025 - 10:15 am UTC All three awardees are affiliated with the University of California The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three researchers: John Clarke (United Kingdom), Michel H. Devoret (France/USA) and John M. Martinis (USA), for their work in quantum mechanics, as announced this Tuesday by the Swedish Academy. The scientists were awarded for their research and experiments, conducted mainly since the 1980s, which led to the discovery of macroscopic quantum tunneling and the qua...

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to researchers of metal-organic structures — MercoPress

6Nov

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Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to researchers of metal-organic structures — MercoPress

Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to researchers of metal-organic structures Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 03:06 UTC MOFs have not yet achieved widespread industrial use, but they have enormous potential The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Richard Robson (United Kingdom), Susumu Kitagawa (Japan) and Omar Yaghi (United States) for their fundamental work on metal-organic structures (MOFs), as announced this Wednesday by the Swedish Academy. MOFs are highly ordered, porous three-dimensional crystal lattices with a huge internal surface area. They are built following a simple principle: metallic atoms, which...

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai receives Nobel Prize for Literature — MercoPress

6Nov

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Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai receives Nobel Prize for Literature — MercoPress

Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai receives Nobel Prize for Literature Thursday, October 9, 2025 - 8:17 pm UTC His editor refers to Krasznahorkai as the “master of literary hallucination.” Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature for his “captivating and visionary work that affirms the power of art in the midst of apocalyptic horror”, announced this Thursday in Stockholm, Mats Malm, permanent secretary and spokesperson for the Swedish Academy. The jury praised Krasznahorkai's “extraordinary linguistic vitality”, his “powerful epic style of musical inspiration” and his ...

Nobel Prize in Economics is divided between one and two winners — MercoPress

6Nov

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Nobel Prize in Economics is divided between one and two winners — MercoPress

Nobel Prize for Economics is divided between one and two winners Tuesday, October 14, 2025 - 01:22 UTC Mokyr received half the prize, while Aghion and Howitt shared the rest (Photo: Royal Swedish Academy) The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics has been awarded to three researchers for their work on innovation-driven growth: Joel Mokyr (economic historian, Dutch, Israeli and American citizen, residing in the USA), Philippe Aghion (French, residing in France and London) and Peter Howitt (Canadian, residing in the USA), announced the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm on Monday afternoon local time, marking the end of th...

Orsi promulgates the euthanasia law – MercoPress

6Nov

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Orsi promulgates the euthanasia law – MercoPress

Uruguay: Orsi promulgates the euthanasia law Friday, October 31, 2025 - 10:48 UTC Until the regulatory framework is decreed, euthanasia procedures cannot be carried out President Yamandú Orsi promulgated the “Death with Dignity” law, also known as the euthanasia law. The Uruguayan Executive Branch now has 180 days to prepare the decree that will officially regulate the application of the law. “The objective of this law is to regulate and guarantee people’s right to die with dignity”, states article 1. “Any person of legal age, mentally competent, who is in the terminal phase of an incurable and irreversible disease,...

All eyes on Uruguayan euthanasia volunteers — MercoPress

6Nov

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All eyes on Uruguayan euthanasia volunteers — MercoPress

All eyes on Uruguayan euthanasia volunteers Monday, November 3, 2025 - 10:14 UTC "I still don't want to use it. I can write, go out when I have company and enjoy a literary workshop. But I know what awaits me and I'm not willing to live that," said Gelós. The cases of Uruguayans Pablo Cánepa, 39, and Beatriz Gelós, 71, caught public attention after the promulgation of the so-called Dignified Death Law (or Euthanasia Law). Both suffer from irreversible diseases and have expressed their intention to benefit from this procedure as soon as it is regulated. Their cases were even mentioned in the parliamentary debate that led to t...

The Automaker’s 2019 Profits Were Essentially Wiped Out

3Feb

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The Automaker’s 2019 Profits Were Essentially Wiped Out

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