Science Alert: Normally, after running a five-year experiment, scientists might pat each other on the back in earnest recognition of having finally made it to the end of an epic, demanding research effort. But if, after five long years, you’re still less than 1 percent of the way through your actual experiment, the back-patting and…
Science Alert: For over 70 years, scientists have been predicting the existence of a certain kind of object in the outer Solar System. Small in size, these potential bodies are thought to constitute an important early step in the planet formation process. Since these hypothetical objects are only between 1 and 10 kilometres in radius…
Tech Explorist: Exploring the history of the universe with a large sample of distant ‘active’ galaxies observed by ESA’s XMM-Newton, a team of astronomers found there may be more to the early expansion of the Universe than anticipated by the standard model of cosmology. As indicated by the leading scenario, our Universe contains just a…
Brain Logger: Chronic pain is debilitating, and it can cause patients to “fall through the cracks”. Health care institutions struggle to find ways to create “nets” and catch these patients. Pain medications include opioids which are used to treat chronic pain. Opioids often fail to treat the patient’s primary medical condition. As time goes by,…
BSS: Water, water and water everywhere when you look around. But, about 60,000 people have been living in a small and isolated island – Char Jahir Uddin – in the Bay of Bengal with high risk of extreme climate events. It is really a difficult task to go to the hard-to-reach area since an engine-run…
Science Alert: The eggs laid by a group of “pampered” hens in the UK contain something special in their whites. After researchers from the University of Edinburgh spliced a human gene into the chickens’ DNA, the animals began laying eggs boasting a significant amount of two proteins used to treat diseases including cancer in humans…
UNB: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive recovered 18 gold bars from Kakdanga bordering area in Sadar upazila early Tuesday. Being information that a big consignment of gold is being smuggled to India, a team of BGB conducted a drive in the area around 3:30am, said Major Syed Fazle Hossain, deputy commanding…
Kōda Hideyuki, Power News/ Nippon.com We Talk with another two Japanese women who converted to Islam after marrying Muslim men. Step by Step Inside the offices of the Japan Halal Association, an NPO based in Osaka’s Hirano Ward, Khadija Mari mans the phones alongside a woman clad in a hijab. Mari met her husband, Abdurahman,…
Phys.org: Trees absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it in their roots and leaves. Florida International University ecologist Jason Vleminckx and a team of researchers found small trees can store carbon for an average of 74 years, whereas big trees can store it for an average of 54 to 57 years. That’s because…
Hossen Sohel of DOT A total of 4,439 people were killed and 4,425 others injured in 3,103 incidents of road crashes last year, Nirapad Sarak Chai said in a report yesterday, reports The Daily Star. Ilias Kanchan, founder of road safety campaigning group Nirapad Sarak Chai revealed the statistics at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the…