Science Alert: In the water, it’s getting harder to breathe. Suffocating dead zones with little or no oxygen are pervading the world’s oceans, rivers, and streams. This phenomenon – which has exploded in recent decades – poses an extinction-level nightmare for marine populations already beset by a complex interaction of human-made menace. When it comes…
Tech Explorist: When it comes to acoustic guitars, however, the wood configuration arguably plays a more crucial role. The wood choices for the body, neck and fretboard form upwards of 90% of the construction of an acoustic guitar as they’re almost entirely responsible for the way an acoustic guitar sounds. Similarly, wood type plays a…
Tech Explorist: Putting in half a month cruising the oceans on an extravagance liner is a thought that interests to a developing number of individuals, especially in Asian nations. Be that as it may, cruise ships don’t simply sail from port to port: as veritable drifting lodgings pleasing a few hundred travelers, they utilize a…
Tech Explorist: The faint, ephemeral glow emanating from the planetary nebula ESO 577-24 persists for only a short time — around 10,000 years, a blink of an eye in astronomical terms. ESO’s Very Large Telescope captured this shell of glowing ionised gas — the last breath of the dying star whose simmering remains are visible…
Tech Explorist: A team of researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad has developed a new technique that promises to help deploy high volume artificial neural networks (ANNs) on mobile phones and portable devices. Artificial neural networks work the same way as human nervous systems and are based on interconnected processing elements working together…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan yesterday said the government has taken an initiative to build a separate railway bridge beside the existing Bangabandhu Bridge on the Jamuna River, reports The Daily Star. “One more double-gauge rail bridge will be built beside the Bangabandhu bridge with the finance of Japan,” the railway…
DOT Desk: Although still producing earthen pots and utensils, lack of innovation and inability to use technology has held them back without ever reaching their full potential, reports The Dhaka Tribune. In the small village of Kartikpur in Bhedarganj upazila of Shariatpur, a dynasty of potters, namely Pals and Kumars, have sustained the rare pottery…
Hossen Sohel of DOT Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed all concerned to implement various projects in a faster manner maintaining the quality and standard of works and strengthen monitoring in this regard. The Prime Minister gave the directive in her introductory speech at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council…
UNB: The general inflation rate slightly came down to 5.35 percent in December last from 5.37 percent in the previous month (Nov) thanks to the slight fall in both food and non-food inflations. “The general point-to-point inflation rate slightly eased to 5.35 percentage point in December last,” said Planning Minister MA Mannan on Tuesday releasing…
DOT Desk: The UNHCR office in Bangladesh allegedly have imported several dozen of vehicles illegally evading import duty and got those vehicles released in connivance with a section of local officials, reports The New Age. Allegations have it that the UN refugee agency also provides most of its vehicles holding diplomatic number plates to people…