October 2005 in Science - October 5, 2005

October 5, 2005

  • Scientists publish first results of studies on the re-created live Spanish flu virus, produced and stored at a lab of the CDC. (AP/YahooNews)
  • Chinese officials confirm that the launch date for Shenzhou 6 is scheduled for October 13. (AFP/YahooNews)
  • The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awards Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, and Richard R. Schrock the 2005 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, "for the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis". (Nobelprize.org) (BBC)

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