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French-Japanese scientists win 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Rank: 14
Running: 22h
Updated: 2h ago
Momentum: -16%
Outlets: 169
Regions: 5
Countries: 70
Languages: 31

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: El Sol de México, 7 Oct, 04:58 UTC.
Second country: Pakistan, with The Express Tribune.
Second region: Asia-Pacific, with The Express Tribune.
Fastest hour: +111 outlets from 7 Oct, 09:49 UTC.
Now: 169 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 70 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 7 outlets · 6 countries · 4%
Americas 33 outlets · 13 countries · 20%
Asia-Pacific 42 outlets · 17 countries · 25%
Europe 71 outlets · 26 countries · 42%
Middle East 16 outlets · 8 countries · 9%

First movers

El Sol de México 7 Oct, 04:58 UTC
The Express Tribune +24m
Onet +1h 8m
Der Standard +2h 2m
ANSA +4h 5m

Latest arrivals

Republica 8 Oct, 02:01 UTC
G1 8 Oct, 01:46 UTC
UzDaily 7 Oct, 19:14 UTC
The Economist 7 Oct, 18:38 UTC
Punch 7 Oct, 16:30 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 169 outlets in 70 countries, across 5 regions. The article links are kept for good for every story that reaches the map. Of the 169 outlets, 10 state-owned, 15 public-service, 144 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 6: Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, Senegal, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda. Americas 13: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 17: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 26: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 8: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. 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, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Persian, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Nepali, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article El Sol de México, 7 Oct 2026, 04:58 UTC. First seen 7 Oct 2026, 06:20 UTC. Last seen 8 Oct 2026, 02:01 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: 7.12, 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.
Chain: Merged from 5 stories Nobel Prize in chemistry awarded to Henri Kagan and Kenso Soai; Nobel Prize in Chemistry announced today; Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded for chiral molecule research; Il Nobel per la Chimica a Henri B. Kagan e Kenso Soai; Нобелевскую премию по химии присудили за исследования зеркальных форм молекул. A story continues another when it resembled it as it began, past that story’s own 48-hour box. A story merged from several was grouped from stories about the same event; each keeps its own headline and page, and the whole story counts every outlet and country once.
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 1 88.61 166 70 166 70 4.6

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Started 7 Oct, 06:20 UTC · Updated 8 Oct, 02:01 UTC

Merged from 5 stories

Covered by 169 outlets

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Merged from 5 stories

Covered by 169 outlets

Africa 7 outlets

Americas 33 outlets

Asia-Pacific 42 outlets

Europe 71 outlets

Middle East 16 outlets