Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2023

This year’s Laureate in the Economic Sciences, Claudia Goldin, provided the first comprehensive account of women’s earnings and labour market participation through the centuries. Her research reveals the causes of change, as well as the main sources of the remaining gender …

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Maria Fernanda Garza elected chair of the International Chamber of Commerce.

The International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) is the largest and most representative business organisation which is represented in 170 countries with a corporate membership of 45 million companies. ICC has elected Maria Fernanda Garza from Mexico as the ICC Chair, making her …

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Afghanistan hit by third earthquake in a week.

A new earthquake has hit western Afghanistan - several days after two large tremors in the region killed more than 1,000 people. The US Geological Survey (USGS) says the magnitude 6.3 quake struck near the city of Herat. It was at a depth of 6.3km (four miles). So far there h…

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International Day of Rural Women - 15 October.

The International Day of Rural Women, celebrated annually on October 15, is a day dedicated to recognizing the vital contributions of rural women worldwide. they play an essential role in agriculture, food production and rural development. However, their contributions are o…

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Archaeologists Find Hidden Chambers in Pyramid of Egyptian Pharaoh.

A team of Egyptian and German researchers led by Mohamed Ismail Khaled from the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg recently uncovered multiple storage chambers within the ruins of the Fifth Dynasty pyramid of the pharaoh Sahura, putting centuries of ambiguity surrou…

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International Space Station leaks coolant into space.

Space station astronauts were "never in any danger" following a coolant leak Monday (Oct. 9) on a Russian module, NASA officials have said. Toxic ammonia flakes were observed on the International Space Station's (ISS) Russian Nauka Multipurpose Laboratory Modul…

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World Sight Day - 12 October. (The second Thursday of October)

Every year, the second Thursday of October marks a crucial occasion on the global calendar, World Sight Day. This day is dedicated to raising awareness about vision impairment and blindness. This year it falls on 12th October. This World Sight Day, our focus is on helping p…

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Wildlife Photographer of the Year.

A picture of a mysterious and other-worldly horseshoe crab has earned Laurent Ballesta the title of Wildlife Photographer of the Year (WPY) 2023. The golden marine arthropod is seen hugging the bottom muds in waters off Pangatalan Island, in the Philippines. It is tracked by …

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Bad weather delays SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission to Oct. 13.

The launch of NASA's Psyche asteroid mission has been delayed until 10:19 a.m. EDT (1419 GMT) on Friday (Oct. 13), to account for inclement weather that's barreling in from the Gulf of Mexico.  Psyche, NASA's probe to explore a metal asteroid of the same name, wa…

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104 year old Dorothy Hoffner who set the record dies days after sky diving.

Dorothy Hoffner, the 104-year-old Chicago woman who set the record for the oldest tandem skydive, died in her sleep just days after the monumental jump. Hoffner made worldwide news just 10 days ago on October 1, when she became the oldest living person to jump out of a plane…

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Solar and Lunar Eclipse in October 2023

October 2023 is set to be a remarkable month for astronomy enthusiasts and stargazers around the world. It will mark a rare celestial event when both Solar and Lunar eclipses will grace the night skies. These awe-inspiring natural phenomena offer a captivating glimpse into …

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Kenyan Kiptum Breaks Marathon World Record.

Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum left the running world in awe as he shattered the men’s world record, clocking a time of just two hours and 35 seconds, to claim victory at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday. He broke the previous record set by Eliud Kipchoge in the 2022 Berlin Marathon. K…

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Atlas V rocket launching Amazon's 1st internet satellites today.

The first two prototype satellites for Amazon's Project Kuiper broadband constellation will lift off today (Oct. 6), and you can watch the action live. A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the two spacecraft is scheduled to lift off today from Florida&#…

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Mercury was shrinking for at least 3 billion years — and it still might be today.

Since the 1970s, when NASA's Mariner 10 mission reached Mercury, scientists have known that the planet is shrinking as its core cools down. But while it's estimated that thermal contraction started some 3 billion years ago, it hasn't been clear whether it's …

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NASA’s Hubble Finds Bizarre Explosion in Unexpected Place.

A very rare, strange burst of extraordinarily bright light in the universe just got even stranger – thanks to the eagle-eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The phenomenon, called a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT), flashed onto the scene where it wasn't…

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Jon Fosse, a Norwegian master of spare Nordic writing, wins the Nobel Prize in literature.

Jon Fosse, a master of spare Nordic literature in a sprawling body of work ranging from plays to novels and children’s books, won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday for works that “give voice to the unsayable.” Anders Olsson, chairman of the Nobel literature committee…

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Further evidence points to footprints in New Mexico being the oldest sign of humans in Americas.

New research confirms that fossil human footprints in New Mexico are likely the oldest direct evidence of human presence in the Americas, a finding that upends what many archaeologists thought they knew about when our ancestors arrived in the New World. The footprints were d…

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Sri Lanka’s official reserves estimated at USD 3.5 billion.

The level of gross official reserves of the country were estimated at around USD 3.5 billion as of the end of September 2023, according to the Central Bank of Sri Lanka (CBSL). However, this includes the swap facility from the People’s Bank of China to the tune of USD 1.4 bi…

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Sri Lanka to host 2023 Asian Women Parliamentarian Caucus annual meeting

Arrangements have been made to hold the Asian Women Parliamentarian Caucus Annual Meeting 2023 in Colombo this year, the Communications Department of Parliament says. This year, the theme of the Asian Women Parliamentarian Caucus is “Inclusivity & Diversity in Gender Equ…

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Scientists discover half-a-million-year-old wooden structure.

Scientists working in Zambia have discovered what are believed to be the remains of the world’s oldest wooden structure. Dated to some 476,000 years ago, they are almost a hundred times older than the Pyramids in Egypt. Professor Larry Barham from the University of Liverpool…

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Lost 4,400-year-old tomb found with Ancient Egyptian Mummy inside.

Archaeologists have rediscovered a lost tomb that contains the mummy of an ancient Egyptian official. The tomb belonged to Ptahshepses, who lived around 4,400 years ago during the 25th and 24th centuries B.C. Archaeologists with the Czech Institute of Egyptology at Prague…

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3 scientists win Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on tiny quantum dots.

Moungi Bawendi, of MIT, Louis Brus, of Columbia University, and Alexei Ekimov, of Nanocrystals Technology Inc., were honored for their work with the tiny particles that are just a few atoms in diameter and whose electrons have constrained movement.  This effects how they abs…

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Tharushi Karunarathna wins Gold at 2023 Asian Games.

Sri Lankan athlete Tharushi Karunarathna clinched the Gold medal in the Women’s 800m event at the 19th Asian Games Hangzhou, China, a short while ago. The 19-year-old clocked a time of 2.03.20 minutes to clinch the Gold medal in the women’s 800m event at the 2023 Asian Games…

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Sri Lanka clinch Bronze in women’s 4x400m relay

Sri Lanka team secured the bronze medal in the Women’s 4x400m relay event at the 2023 Asian Games being held in Hangzhou, China, a short while ago. The four Sri Lankan sprinters clocked a time of 3:30:88 minutes, setting a new national record in the event. Meanwhile, Sri Lank…

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Nobel Prize goes to scientists behind mRNA Covid vaccines.

The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to a pair of scientists who developed the technology that led to the mRNA Covid vaccines. Professors Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman will share the prize. The technology was experimental before the pandemic, but has …

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Nobel Prize in Physics goes to scientists for work on electrons.

The Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to three scientists who look at electrons in atoms during the tiniest of split seconds. Pierre Agostini of The Ohio State University in the U.S.; Ferenc Krausz of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Ludwig Maximilian Uni…

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James Webb telescope makes 'JuMBO' discovery of planet-like objects in Orion.

Jupiter-sized "planets" free-floating in space, unconnected to any star, have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). What's intriguing about the discovery is that these objects appear to be moving in pairs. Astronomers are currently struggling t…

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Giant asteroid the size of 100 capybaras to pass Earth Tuesday - NASA.

A huge asteroid the size of around 100 capybaras is set to pass Earth on Tuesday, October 3, according to NASA's asteroid tracker. The asteroid in question has been designated 349507 (2008 QY), according to the Center for Near-Earth Object Studies (CNEOS) at NASA's J…

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Ghana’s former first lady dies at 87.

Flags have been flying at half mast in Ghana in tribute to Theresa Kufuor, the wife of John Agyekum Kufuor, president of Ghana from 2000 to 2008. Born Theresa Mensah, the former first lady passed away on 1 October at the age of 87. As a scholar of political science and inter…

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465-million-year-old trilobite found with Gut Contents Preserved.

The newly-discovered fossilized specimen of Bohemolichas incola, a species of trilobite that lived during the Ordovician period, provides by far the most detailed source of information to date concerning the diet and the feeding mode of trilobites. Bohemolichas incola appea…

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