9 OCTOBER 2014: Nobel Chemistry 2 Microscope researchers!

Ø  The International Border in Jammu and Kashmir remained tense as Pakistani and Indian troops continued to exchange fire even as two women were killed and 25 injured in Pakistani shelling in the Samba sector of the Jammu region.

Nobel Leurates

Ø  Two Americans and a German scientist won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for finding ways to make microscopes more powerful than previously thought possible, allowing scientists to see how diseases develop inside the tiniest cells. Working independently of each other, U.S. researchers Eric Betzig and William Moerner and Stefan Hell of Germany shattered previous limits on the resolution of optical microscopes by using glowing molecules to peer inside tiny components of life. Their breakthroughs, starting in the 1990s, have enabled scientists to study diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s at a molecular level, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.

Ø  Cyclone Hudhud, lying centred about 1,150 km southeast of Gopalpur in Odisha, will cross north Andhra Pradesh and the adjoining Odisha coast between Visakhapatnam and Gopalpur by October 12, bringing heavy rain in the two States, the Meteorological Centre here said. The cyclone, named after a bird by Oman, has been categorised as a “very severe cyclonic storm” and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) teams have been rushed to the States. A deep depression over the north Andaman Sea intensified into the storm.