Nobel Prize 2021

Nobel Prize Winners for the Year 2021 Announced

This week, the special committees based in Norway and Sweden announced the winners of the Nobel Prize for the year 2021 in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace and economic sciences. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet have already announced the winners of all the science related disciplines.

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SJF 2021

Science Journalism Forum 2021 Now Underway

Organized with the aim of sharing new ideas and thoughts in science journalism among science journalists, writers, publishers, scientists, students, and academia, the Science Journalism Forum 2021 is now underway as a virtual event. During this three-day event science journalists with a huge range of other resource personnel will share their knowledge with the aim of upgrading the skills of journalists all over the world with a focus on developing countries.

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Denugue

Impose Immediate Mobility Restrictions and Save 18000 Sri Lankan Lives: WHO Expert Group Urges

Releasing a special report on 11th August 2021 Independent Expert Group appointed by the World Health Organization urged the Sri Lankan authorities to impose immediate travel restrictions to control the current outbreak and save at least 18000 lives from this deadly pandemic.

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Sri Lanka to Face the Worst of COVID-19 in Coming Weeks – Prof. Malik Peiris

In a special ceremony held in Colombo on 30th July 2021, National Science Foundation of Sri Lanka launched a book titled “COVID-19, Impact Mitigation, Opportunities and Building Resilience”. The book discusses different perspectives of global relevance based on research, experiences and successes in combating COVID-19 here in Sri Lanka, and contain opinions of experts from different fields that are directly related to the ongoing pandemic. In this event, Prof. Malik Peiris, the world-renowned virologist from University of Hong Kong delivered a special presentation titled “Reflections on a post-pandemic future”.

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