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Montevideo, November 21st 2024 - 08:40 UTC

Health & Science

  • Saturday, October 12th 2024 - 11:20 UTC

    Premier of the discovery of the “Endurance” at the London Film Festival

    The 2022 expedition that made the discovery at the bottom of the Antarctic continent at a depth of almost 3,000 meters was supported by the Falkland Islands Heritage Fund

    This Saturday, October 12, a documentary film about the discovery of the ship “Endurance” by the great Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton will be presented at the London Film Festival.

  • Thursday, October 10th 2024 - 07:54 UTC

    Falklands, Update on avian influenza

    Set of swabs pending on results

    Since Monday 1 July 2024, three suspect birds/animals have been reported, 2 sets of swabs have been taken. One set returned positive results and 1 set of negative results. There are 3 sets of swabs pending.

  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 13:13 UTC

    Proteins show the way for 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize winners

    Proteins control and regulate all chemical reactions in the body's cells. Hence the importance of the two works recognized through Wednesday's awards

    Sweden's Royal Academy of Science announced Wednesday that researchers David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John M. Jumper had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their studies regarding proteins.

  • Wednesday, October 9th 2024 - 08:23 UTC

    Bluetongue restriction zone in the UK widened

    The virus is spread by the bites of midges that are often blown over from the continent during spells of warm weather.

    The UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said it had extended the regional bluetongue restriction zone after two cases of the disease were reported along the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire border. This means following restrictions on moving animals.

  • Tuesday, October 8th 2024 - 13:33 UTC

    Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to artificial intelligence pioneers

    The two laureates “used fundamental concepts from statistical physics to design artificial neural networks that function as associative memories and find patterns in large data sets,” it was explained

    Sweden's Royal Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday that it was granting the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton for their “discoveries and inventions in artificial intelligence” and “machine learning with artificial neural networks.” The distinction also represented a € 970,000 cheque.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 22:04 UTC

    Brazil transitioning from extremely dry weather to heavy rains

    Flooding might occur in some cities, a Metsul expert warned

    Brazil is in for one of the wettest weeks in the last semester, the weather agency MetSul warned Monday, as heavy rains, lightning, hail, and gales have been forecasted for the South American largest country's Midwest, Southeast, and South after an extended drought with very low air humidity and intense heat.

  • Monday, October 7th 2024 - 12:05 UTC

    2024 Medicine Nobel Prize goes to team of US researchers

    ”Ambros and Ruvkun's seminal discovery in the tiny worm C. elegans was unexpected and revealed a new dimension of gene regulation

    US researchers Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun were awarded the 2024 Medicine Nobel Prize for their findings in post-transcriptional gene regulation (microRNA) which have proven “to be of fundamental importance in how organisms develop and function,” it was announced Monday in Stockholm while launching the start of Nobel Prize Week. They were granted some € 970,000 for their contribution to science.

  • Saturday, October 5th 2024 - 08:46 UTC

    HMS Protector “Sea Rider” Arctic Expedition for UK/Canadian Early-Career Researchers

    The Royal Ice Patrol, HMS Protector, during her joint cruise with the Canadian experts in the Sea Rider program

    The British High Commission in Ottawa organized an expedition for a group of British & Canadian early-career researchers to travel on board HMS Protector for an Arctic cruise. The UK and Canada have an exciting portfolio of collaborative projects relating to science, technology, and research.

  • Tuesday, October 1st 2024 - 10:06 UTC

    11 new cases of monkeypox reported in Argentina

    All mpox infections nationwide belonged to variant clade II

    Argentine health authorities Monday reported the detection of 11 new cases of monkeypox in patients aged 34 on average with a minimum age of 20 years and a maximum of 56.

  • Wednesday, September 25th 2024 - 19:47 UTC

    Argentine university says dengue-carrying mosquito more resistant to insecticides

    The Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA) will start vaccinating adolescents against dengue next week

    A study by the Argentine University of La Plata's Insect Neurobiology Laboratory released this week detected that certain mutations of the dengue-causing aedes aegypti mosquito is more resistant to insecticides than previously thought. The research was focused on the type of insect dominant in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA) ahead of the Summer season, during which an outbreak of the malady is feared.