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Things to know about the Nobel Prizes

Boston Herald 01 Oct 2023
The start of October is when the Nobel committees get together in Stockholm and Oslo to announce the winners of the yearly awards ... 9 ... Peace in Norway ... 10 — the anniversary of Nobel’s death — while the other prizes are presented in Stockholm ... The Nobel Prizes project an aura of being above the political fray, focused solely on the benefit of humanity.
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Sweden's Northvolt to build $5.2 bln battery factory in Canada

Reuters 28 Sep 2023
STOCKHOLM/TORONTO, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Swedish lithium-ion battery producer Northvolt said on Thursday it would open a $5.2 billion gigafactory in Quebec, the largest ever investment in the Canadian province and the latest in electric vehicle battery manufacturing capacity in the country ... He is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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RNA recovered from extinct animal in world first

Dawn 27 Sep 2023
STOCKHOLM ... the resurrection of animals once thought lost forever, Stockholm University researchers said. “RNA has never been extracted and sequenced from an extinct species before,” said Love Dalen, a Stockholm University professor of evolutionary genomics who co-led the project.
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Scientists take step toward “being able to resurrect extinct species”

Sandhills Express 26 Sep 2023
Scientists have for the first time recovered and sequenced RNA from an extinct species, the Tasmanian tiger, a Stockholm University researcher told CBS News ... Love Dalen, a Stockholm University professor of evolutionary genomics who co-led the project, told the AFP that “RNA has never been extracted and sequenced from an extinct species before.”.
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RNA recovered from extinct animal Tasmanian tiger in world first

Gulf News 26 Sep 2023
STOCKHOLM ... resurrection of animals once thought lost forever, Stockholm University researchers told AFP. “RNA has never been extracted and sequenced from an extinct species before,” said Love Dalen, a Stockholm University professor of evolutionary genomics who co-led the project.
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Large methane gas leak in Baltic Sea discovered

Al Jazeera 22 Sep 2023
“We know that methane gas can bubble up from shallow seabeds near the Baltic Sea coast, but I’ve never seen such intense bubbles before – and definitely not from such a deep area,” said researcher Christian Stranne, member of the research project, in a statement from Stockholm University.
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This ground-breaking crash test dummy aims to make cars safer for women

Independent online (SA) 21 Sep 2023
In a warehouse in Linkoping, 200 kilometres south of Stockholm, the female dummy is strapped into a car seat projected along a metal rail at 16km/h, before being brought to a sudden halt. A screen shows the body moving in slow motion at the moment of impact, the mannequin's chest visibly distinguishing it from a standard male crash test dummy.
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Innovation & entrepreneurship competition sails to Sweden

Shenzhen Daily 20 Sep 2023
A total of 21 projects from seven industries — next-generation electronics, high-end equipment manufacturing, green and low-carbon, new materials, biopharmaceuticals and health, digital and fashion, and the marine economy — advanced to the finals of the Stockholm leg.
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Photos: Women in the driver's seat with female crash test dummy

Gulf News 20 Sep 2023
In a warehouse in Linkoping, 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Stockholm, the female dummy is strapped into a car seat projected along a metal rail at 16 kilometres per hour (10 miles per hour), before being brought to a sudden halt ... (125 miles) south of Stockholm Image Credit.
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Gender bias in auto safety: In first, Swedish engineer creates first female car crash test dummy

The News International 20 Sep 2023
In a warehouse in Linkoping, 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Stockholm, the female dummy is strapped into a car seat projected along a metal rail at 16 kilometres per hour (10 miles per hour), before being brought to a sudden halt ... That is 15 cm and 15 kg fewer than a male crash test dummy. Her shoulders are also narrower and her hips wider ... .
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To end gender bias in auto safety, Swedish engineer creates first female car crash test dummy

The News International 20 Sep 2023
In a warehouse in Linkoping, 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Stockholm, the female dummy is strapped into a car seat projected along a metal rail at 16 kilometres per hour (10 miles per hour), before being brought to a sudden halt ... That is 15 cm and 15 kg fewer than a male crash test dummy. Her shoulders are also narrower and her hips wider ... .
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Women in the driver's seat with female crash test dummy

Urdu Point 20 Sep 2023
In a warehouse in Linkoping, 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Stockholm, the female dummy is strapped into a car seat projected along a metal rail at 16 kilometres per hour (10 miles per hour), before being brought to a sudden halt ... "If you compare it with a male dummy, this neck is more flexible and has more movement." .. ....
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How can we make forests resilient to climate change?

Jamaica Observer 15 Sep 2023
A new research project will address these gaps by modelling the effects of different forest interventions on climate change mitigation, water, and biodiversity ... The project is a cooperation between SIWI, Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC), Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), and the WaterCentre@KTH.
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PIF-owned ROSHN plans to spend $2.7bn on construction of real estate projects   

Arab News 14 Sep 2023
ROSHN Real Estate Co., a major player in Saudi Arabia’s property development sector, has secured SR10 billion ($2.67 billion) in funds as it prepares to embark on a series of projects across the Kingdom ... meters, featuring the Kingdom’s first canal project connected to the Red Sea.
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Delusional population projections lead us sleepwalking into catastrophe

The Overpopulation Project 13 Sep 2023
There are several rival projections, the most widely known being the Wittgenstein Centre (the “shared socioeconomic pathways” or SSP series), Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre’s “Earth4All” project ... The SSP projections are particularly widely used in modelling.
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