NaN Hours Ago · Sweden, Sweden

Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Wednesday awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry to Henri B. Kagan and Kenso Soai “for the discovery of non-linear effects and autocatalysis in asymmetric organic synthesis.”

NaN Hours Ago · Giza, Egypt

Scientists name ancient crocodile species found in rock that built the Great Sphinx

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The croc family tree may be getting a new branch. Analyzing fossilized remains discovered in the same bedrock that built the Great Sphinx, paleontologists newly identified a crocodilian species that once roamed a shallow sea in what’s now Egypt about 45 million years ago. The Mokattam Formation in northern