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Three scientists win Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics

Rank
Ran: 32h
Updated: 11h ago
Final
Outlets: 191
Regions: 5
Countries: 83
Languages: 34

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How it spread

Outlets, by hours since the first article

First outlet: RFI, 5 Oct, 01:36 UTC.
Second country: Mexico, with El Sol de México.
Second region: Americas, with El Sol de México.
Fastest hour: +100 outlets from 5 Oct, 09:33 UTC.
Last article: 191 outlets.

Where it travelled

The 83 countries whose press covered it, the later a country joined, the more it stands out. One international outlet publishes from no single country and cannot be shown. Open the live map

The regions

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Africa 14 outlets · 11 countries · 7%
Americas 40 outlets · 14 countries · 21%
Asia-Pacific 44 outlets · 21 countries · 23%
Europe 75 outlets · 27 countries · 39%
Middle East 17 outlets · 9 countries · 9%
International 1 outlet · 1%

First movers

RFI 5 Oct, 01:36 UTC
El Sol de México +3h 34m
The Express Tribune +4h 37m
Der Standard +5h 23m
Kurier +6h 51m

Last to join

Expreso (EC) 6 Oct, 15:49 UTC
Media Indonesia 6 Oct, 15:47 UTC
Cubadebate 6 Oct, 14:32 UTC
La Presse de Tunisie 6 Oct, 12:03 UTC
Detik 6 Oct, 10:20 UTC

The figures

Coverage: 191 outlets in 83 countries, across 5 regions. The article links last a week past the story’s last article; the outlet list is permanent. Of the 191 outlets, 16 state-owned, 15 public-service, 160 private. A count of countries is not a count of independent press systems.
Countries by region: Africa 11: Burkina Faso, Egypt, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Republic of the Congo, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia. Americas 14: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, United States, Uruguay, Venezuela. Asia-Pacific 21: Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Uzbekistan, Vietnam. Europe 27: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, United Kingdom. Middle East 9: Iran, Israel, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates. International 1: the outlets that publish from no single country, counted as one. 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, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese.
Timeline: Earliest article RFI, 5 Oct 2026, 01:36 UTC. First seen 5 Oct 2026, 09:40 UTC. Last seen 6 Oct 2026, 18:17 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: 0.50, 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 2 stories Three scientists win 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics; Three scientists win 2026 Nobel Prize in Medicine for optogenetics. 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

5 Oct 2026 1 85.31 170 77 170 77 4.1

6 Oct 2026 27 17.81 191 83 20 19 4.6

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Started 5 Oct, 09:40 UTC · Updated 6 Oct, 18:17 UTC

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 191 outlets

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Day	Rank	Score	Outlets	Countries	24h outlets	24h countries	Method
5 Oct 2026	1	85.31	170	77	170	77	4.1
6 Oct 2026	27	17.81	191	83	20	19	4.6

Merged from 2 stories

Covered by 191 outlets

Africa 14 outlets

Americas 40 outlets

Asia-Pacific 44 outlets

Europe 75 outlets

Middle East 17 outlets

International 1 outlet