FOX News: Denmark is building a 43-mile fence along its border with Germany to keep out wild pigs that could pose a major risk to the country’s pork industry. The move, which was authorized by Danish lawmakers in June, is an attempt to prevent the spread of African swine fever. Unlike swine flu, African swine…
CNN: China has lashed out against the United States, accusing it of trying to “kill” Chinese businesses after US prosecutors indicted telecom giant Huawei on a slew of charges. “For some time now, the United States has deployed its state power to smear and crack down on targeted Chinese companies in an attempt to kill…
UNB: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a raid arrested five people for carrying 10,000 pieces of Yaba tablets in their abdomens from inside a bus in Paduar Bazar Bishwa road area in Sadar Dakhshin upazila yesterday. The arrestees are Rasel, Rezaul, Saddam, Riaz and Rashed, said Sheikh Md Billal Hossain, acting company commander…
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…