Portal:Current events/2017 October 4

Current events of October 4, 2017 (2017-10-04) (Wednesday)

Politics and elections

• Operation Anubis
  • The Spanish government sends Logistic Support armed forces into Catalonia to support riot police in Barcelona. (The Sun)

Science and technology

• Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  • The Nobel Prize committee awards Swiss Jacques Dubochet, German Joachim Frank, and British Richard Henderson the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing cryo-electron microscopy for the high-resolution structural determination of biomolecules in a solution. (The Guardian),(Nobel Prize.org)