Health & Science

• Wednesday, October 15th 2025 - 10:54 UTC

  South Atlantic Shark Conservation Initiative announced

  

  Argentine and Uruguayan scientists are launching the South Atlantic Shark Conservation Initiative, a collaborative research expedition to secure stronger legal protections for sharks in the Southwest Atlantic, a region critical for marine biodiversity.

• Monday, October 13th 2025 - 20:50 UTC

  Nobel Prize in Economics split into one and two winners respectively

  

  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/US citizen, working in the US), Philippe Aghion (French, working in France and London), and Peter Howitt (Canadian, working in the US), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced in Stockholm on Monday afternoon, local time, marking the end of this year's Nobel Prize season.

• Thursday, October 9th 2025 - 20:14 UTC

  Hungarian Krasznahorkai gets 2025 Literature Nobel Prize

  

  Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai was honored with the 2025 Literature Nobel Prize for his “compelling and visionary work that affirms the power of art amidst apocalyptic horror,” Mats Malm, Permanent Secretary and Spokesperson for the Swedish Academy, announced in Stockholm on Thursday.

• Thursday, October 9th 2025 - 02:58 UTC

  MOFs' potential earns researchers the Chemistry Nobel Prize

  

  The 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to Richard Robson (UK), Susumu Kitagawa (Japan), and Omar Yaghi (USA)—for their foundational work on Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), the Swedish Academy announced on Wednesday.

• Tuesday, October 7th 2025 - 21:20 UTC

  Physics Nobel Prize granted to US, UK, and French researchers of quantum mechanics

  

  The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three researchers: John Clarke (UK), Michel H. Devoret (France/USA), and John M. Martinis (USA), for their work on quantum mechanics, the Swedish Academy announced on Tuesday.

• Tuesday, October 7th 2025 - 10:28 UTC

  Falkor (Too) sets sail after red tape delays

  

  Following days of delays caused by red-tape issues, the Falkor (Too) set sail from the port of Buenos Aires for another underwater joint streaming mission by the Schmidt Ocean Institute and Argentina's National Council for Scientific and Technical Research (Conicet) is already underway.

• Monday, October 6th 2025 - 21:54 UTC

  Medicine Nobel Prize awarded to trio delving into the mechanism of autoimmune diseases

  

  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 concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”

• Monday, October 6th 2025 - 09:16 UTC

  Brazil: Mosquito factory hopes to solve dengue crisis

  

  A mosquito manufacturing factory in Campinas, in the Brazilian State of São Paulo, is relying on two new complementary technologies to reduce dengue transmission by tackling the Aedes aegypti populations.

• Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 10:12 UTC

  Brazil: Health authorities tackling methanol poisoning outbreak

  

  Brazilian authorities are baffled by the confirmation of methanol poisoning through the consumption of alcoholic beverages, detected as of February 2.

• Friday, October 3rd 2025 - 10:08 UTC

  PAHO highlights wider effects of Brazil's robust vaccination scheme

  

  The Pan American Health Organization noted this week that Brazil's robust vaccination campaigns have yielded benefits for neighboring countries.