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2026 Chemistry Nobel Prize awarded for chiral molecule research

Rank
Running
17h
Updated
12h ago
Momentum
-16%
Outlets
4
Regions
2
Countries
4
Languages
2

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Asharq News Saudi Arabia · Arabic 7 Oct, 10:12 UTC

The first outlet on the story

Read it also in فارسی (1) · +0 languages

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How it spread

Outlets covering the story by hours since its first article: one at the start, 4 after 17 hours.

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Outlets, by hours since the first article

  1. First outlet: Asharq News, 7 Oct, 10:12 UTC.
  2. Second country: Afghanistan, with Afghanistan International.
  3. Second region: Asia-Pacific, with Afghanistan International.
  4. Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 7 Oct, 12:00 UTC.
  5. Now: 4 outlets.

Where it travelled

18 of 18 hours

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The 4 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

25%75%

  • Asia-Pacific 1 outlet · 1 country · 25%
  • Middle East 3 outlets · 3 countries · 75%

First movers

  1. Asharq News 7 Oct, 10:12 UTC
  2. Afghanistan International +1h 48m
  3. Al Sharq +2h 37m
  4. Oman Daily +4h 36m

The figures

Coverage
4 outlets in 4 countries, across 2 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 4 outlets, 1 state-owned, 3 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region
Asia-Pacific 1: Afghanistan. Middle East 3: Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia. The region a country’s press publishes from, as the feed list files it; the outlets that publish from no single country count as one country under International.
Languages
Arabic, Persian.
Timeline
Earliest article Asharq News, 7 Oct 2026, 10:12 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 10:20 UTC. Last seen 7 Oct 2026, 14:48 UTC. The earliest article is the earliest claimed publication time among the outlets Loudest reads, a claim rather than an observation and not a record of who broke the story (the data files call it the lead article); first seen is when Loudest first fetched an article of it, from which the running time counts.
Classification
Region International. Topic Science & health. Hard news Judged hard news. On the map. Whether the story is hard news under the rule in the methodology, judged from its headlines by a model; a story judged outside the rule is left off the map and kept here. The region and country are where the story is about, not where it was covered.
Score
0.41, as of now. One vote per general-press country and a smaller term for outlets, each counted from the moment it joined the story and fading on its own clock, so a late article does not renew the rest. A day in the archive keeps the score it was ranked by that day.
Day by day

Outlets and countries are the story’s whole life as of that midnight; the 24-hour columns are that day’s own coverage; the last column is the methodology version the day was measured under, and a day that spans a change of version shows the first and last, linked to the changelog that lists every version between. A day marked partial is one Loudest read only in part: fewer than 130 of its 144 ten-minute runs, or more than 30 minutes missed at its start or end.

Day Rank Score Outlets Countries 24h outlets 24h countries Method
7 Oct 2026 239 3.83 4 4 4 4 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 10:20 UTC · Updated 14:48 UTC

Covered by 4 outlets

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Asia-Pacific 1 outlet

  • Afghanistan International Afghanistan 7 Oct, 12:00 UTC
    نوبل کیمیا ۲۰۲۶ به آنری کاگان و کنسو سوآی برای پژوهش درباره مولکول‌های آینه‌ای رسید

Middle East 3 outlets

  • Oman Daily Oman 7 Oct, 14:48 UTC
    جائزة نوبل في الكيمياء تذهب إلى هنري كاجان وكينسو سواي
  • Al Sharq Qatar 7 Oct, 12:49 UTC
    نوبل الكيمياء للفرنسي هنري كاغان والياباني كينسو سواي
  • Asharq News Saudi Arabia 7 Oct, 10:12 UTC
    نوبل للكيمياء 2026 تذهب لاكتشاف التأثيرات غير الخطية في التخليق العضوي
    +2 more articlesHide 2 more articles
    • "جزيئات تختار صورتها في المرآة".. اكتشاف ثوري يحصد نوبل للكيمياء 2026 7 Oct, 10:12 UTC
    • نوبل الكيمياء 2026.. عالمان يكشفان كيف تختار الجزيئات صورتها في المرآة 7 Oct, 10:12 UTC
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