Tech Explorist A new study by McMaster University suggests that your address in Canada could have a major role in diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. The study is based on detailed data collected across Canada’s 10 provinces. Scientists identified patterns connecting health and lifestyle factors like access to public transit, the assortment of…
Channelnewsasia: A Pakistani university is rebranding Valentine’s Day as “Sister’s Day”, and debating marking the holiday widely seen as a Western import by handing out headscarves and shawls to its female students. The University of Agriculture in Faisalabad (UAF), in central Punjab province, said the change was taken to promote “eastern culture and Islamic traditions…
Eshan Maitra Slovenian scientists are excitedly celebrating as a new ‘dragon’ just hatched inside Postojna Cave in southwestern Slovenia, last week! Well, not fire-breathing drakes like in Game of Thrones. This beautiful aquatic creature is nicknamed Dragon because of their long and slender bodies. Kind of like Mythical Chinese Dragons but tiny, only13.5 inches long…
Tech Explorist MIT researchers recently have shown that nerves made to express proteins that can be activated by light can produce limb movements utilizing cues produced by the motion of the limb itself. These limb movements can be adjusted in real-time seamlessly. However, the technique leads to smoother and less fatiguing movement than analogous to…
Hossen Sohel: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, eyeing an historic extended term, reaffirmed yesterday his resolve to revise the nation’s post-war, pacifist constitution and said he hoped his party could submit a proposal to parliament later this year, reports Reuters. Abe, who returned to office in December 2012 pledging to bolster defenses and reboot the…
Md. Taqi Yasir The E-mail list is a special use of e-mail where you can enlist people and subscribers to send them automated message from only one particular e-mail. This particular technology has helped companies around the world to sponsor their offers and promotions to many subscribers who visited their website and subscribed to their…
Mamun Khan: The main culprit Xunayed, behind internet viral video of two friends fighting over a girlfriend is sent behind bars by the court. On Sunday Xunayed surrendered to Judge Shamsul Alam of the Cyber crime Tribunal and apeealed for a bail. After the hearing the judge overruled his appeal and sent him to…
Sheersho Zaman The world of entrepreneurship is no longer exclusive to the young up-and-coming and the industry veterans. Recently, a large number of people over the age of 50 have started to set up their own businesses, once they have realized their own potential to make it a success. These first-time entrepreneurs over the age…
Dishika Tasnim On the day, the sky of Dhaka burst into tears for the first time in this year, I was experiencing it from the premises of my institution, the University of Dhaka. What I saw were the cheering students who were enjoying the beauty, the street children having their shower in the first rain…
DOT Desk: Shrimp processors finished the first half of fiscal 2018-19 amid lower export receipts than a year earlier, with a revival in fortunes progressively looking unlikely in the second half, reports The Daily Star. “We have been facing the blow of soaring production of vannamei shrimp in other countries since June 2017,” said Md…