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Three scientists win Nobel Prize for optogenetics research

Rank
Running: 12h
Updated: 4h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 5
Regions: 2
Countries: 5
Languages: 3

The Hindu India · English 5 Oct, 18:17 UTC

The earliest of 2 English reports

Read it also in Español (2) · +1 language

Read at The Hindu

How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: Perfil, 5 Oct, 16:20 UTC.
Second country: Peru, with El Comercio.
Fastest hour: +2 outlets from 5 Oct, 16:20 UTC.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Hindu.
Now: 5 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 5 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

60%40%

Americas 3 outlets · 3 countries · 60%
Asia-Pacific 2 outlets · 2 countries · 40%

First movers

Perfil 5 Oct, 16:20 UTC
El Comercio +57m
The Hindu +1h 58m
CNN Brasil +4h 50m
Malay Mail +8h 35m

The figures

Coverage: 5 outlets in 5 countries, across 2 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 5 outlets, 5 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Americas 3: Argentina, Brazil, Peru. Asia-Pacific 2: India, Malaysia. 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: English, Spanish, Portuguese.
Timeline: Earliest article Perfil, 5 Oct 2026, 16:20 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 16:50 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 00:55 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 not hard news. Left off 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: 1.71, 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

5 Oct 2026 282 3.41 4 4 4 4 4.1

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Started 5 Oct, 16:50 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 00:55 UTC

Covered by 5 outlets

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Americas 3 outlets

CNN Brasil Brazil 5 Oct, 21:09 UTC
Optogenética: entenda técnica que levou cientistas a ganharem prêmio Nobel
Perfil Argentina 5 Oct, 18:23 UTC
“Parece ciencia ficción, pero en realidad se llama optogenética”: para qué sirve la técnica reconocida con el Premio Nobel de Medicina
+1 more articleHide 1 more article
- Optogenética: cómo la luz permite estudiar el cerebro y qué posibilidades abre para la medicina 5 Oct, 16:20 UTC
El Comercio Peru 5 Oct, 17:16 UTC
¿Qué es la optogenética, el “interruptor de luz” del cerebro que llevó a tres científicos al Nobel de Medicina?

Asia-Pacific 2 outlets

Malay Mail Malaysia 6 Oct, 00:55 UTC
How controlling brain cells with light won the Nobel Prize: Potential cures for dementia and depression
The Hindu India 5 Oct, 18:17 UTC
The Nobel-winning science of optogenetics: Explained