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Materials scientist and chemist Antonio Facchetti, formerly of the Georgia Institute of Technology in the United States, has joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a chair professor in its newly established department of materials. Facchetti, who was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering last year for his “contributions to the engineering of commercially viable electronic materials and devices”, researches semiconductors, dielectrics for thin-film and...

Tokyo, Oct. 11 (Jiji Press)--An experiment by French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur in the mid-19th century had inspired 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner Kenso Soai's research. Discovering a reaction known as the "Soai reaction," the 76-year-old Japanese chemist, who is a professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Science, has worked to unravel the mystery of why substances suc...

Tokyo, Oct. 10 (Jiji Press)--Kenso Soai, co-winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, in an interview with Jiji Press on Friday looked back on his research that led to the discovery of the reaction now known as the "Soai reaction." Soai, 76, a professor emeritus at Tokyo University of Science, said that, as a child, he was more interested in living things than in cars or airplanes. He...

Health and power are "deeply connected for women", according to Melinda French Gates, who says the world is "way behind on women's health". French Gates joined Francine Lacqua on "The Pulse" to discuss new Gallup-Pivotal research, which finds more than four in ten UK women say their health has kept them from doing everything they wanted to do, with gaps in information and care at key stages of their lives. In the US, more than half of women reported a negative healthcare experience in the past five years. The research was conducted with Pivotal, founded by French Gates to advance social progress for women and young people. (Source: Bloomberg)

Chinese researchers have developed a catalyst that converts synthesis gas into sustainable jet fuel – a breakthrough that could boost production, help meet net-zero carbon goals and yield a gross profit margin exceeding 50 per cent. The team verified the efficacy of the chemical catalyst in a thousand-tonne pilot test and found that combining woody biomass-derived synthesis gas, or syngas, with the cobalt-manganese catalyst enabled the “highly efficient synthesis of jet fuel”. Based on a...

Tokyo, Oct. 8 (Jiji Press)--Kenso Soai, a 76-year-old Japanese researcher, won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry after spending day after day immersing himself in painstaking experimentation without complaint. What is important in research is "to keep on conducting experiments," Soai said at a press conference Wednesday after the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced its decision to c...

From psychiatric research to counterculture and secret CIA mind-control experiments, LSD makes its way back to the lab.

Advanced-stage cancer patients could spend half as long in hospital and avoid more than a third of unplanned admissions if a symptom-tracking mobile app is added to their routine care, according to new research from the University of Hong Kong. The SUPPORT+ mobile app, developed by HKU’s clinical oncology department, provides symptom-management information and a direct line of communication with healthcare staff. Launched in 2022 with private backing, the app has attracted 76,000 registered...

New major research has found that cases of several different types of cancer have risen sharply among young people in England, the United States, and the Netherlands. Researchers are not exactly sure why there has been such an increase, but say it could be linked to a growing rate of obesity, poor diets and a lack of exercise.

A sharp increase in human activity is affecting the way the Himalayan monal lives and communicates, studies show.

New major research has found that cases of several different kinds of cancer have risen sharply among young people in England, the US, and in the Netherlands. The number of people under the age of 50 diagnosed with prostate cancer in England has quadrupled since 2001. Researchers aren't exactly sure why there's been such an increase but say the broad reason could be linked to a growing rate of obesity, poor diets and a lack of exercise. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Jon Shelton, Head of cancer intelligence at Cancer Research UK.

New major research has found that cases of several different kinds of cancer have risen sharply among young people in England, the US, and in the Netherlands. The number of people under the age of 50 diagnosed with prostate cancer in England has quadrupled since 2001. Researchers aren't exactly sure why there's been such an increase but say the broad reason could be linked to a growing rate of obesity, poor diets and a lack of exercise. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Jon Shelton, Head of cancer intelligence at Cancer Research UK.

The death of a worker from a Russian lab that researches plague has prompted questions about the disease.

In August, US employment in roles most exposed to AI for people aged between 22 and 25 shrank by 4.4 percent year-on-year. This means there's been a contraction every single month since October 2023, about a year after ChatGPT was first released. The high impact of AI on younger workers is one of the key trends emerging from the Canaries Dashboard, a project led by the Stanford Digital Economy Lab and ADP Research. We spoke to ADP Research's Chief Economist Nela Richardson in our Business segment.

US funding cuts caused sharp and lasting declines in HIV prevention, testing and treatment services at organizations serving some of the people most vulnerable to the virus in Uganda and Zimbabwe, according to new research.