Customs officials seized 52 gold bars worth around Tk 2.7 crore left abandoned in an aircraft at Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Saturday morning. Ahmedur Reza Chowdhury, an assistant commissioner of customs intelligence, said the gold bars, weighing 6.32 kilograms, were concealed in a box under a seat of Biman Bangladesh Airline’s flight BG-248 that…
Wion Google said on Thursday it had launched an artificial intelligence programme in Thailand to screen for a diabetic eye disease which causes permanent blindness. The eye screening programme in Thailand follows a similar Google programme in India and highlights a push by big tech companies to show the social benefits of new AI technologies….
Science Alert Scientists at the UC Berkeley have developed a new, efficient catalyst that can produce hydrogen fuel from water. Working as effective as Platinum, this made of Jell-O catalyst is an inexpensive new material for important catalytic reactions. Scientists used a similar recipe of making Jell-O from a box to create this catalyst. They…
NDTV It was an accident. It was a municipal headache. It was a Roald Dahl fan’s dream. Just before 8 p.m. Monday, liquid chocolate began streaming out of the DreiMeister chocolate factory in Westonnen, a suburb of Werl, Germany. A tank at the factory had overflowed, prompting a river of chocolate to breach the factory…
Science Alert There’s a kind of exoplanet out there that is suspiciously rare. We call them “hot Neptunes”, and only a few have been discovered among the 3,869 confirmed exoplanets. But astronomers have made an eye-watering discovery of an evaporating planet that could prove to be the missing link. Called Gliese 3470 b, this planet…
Tech Explorist Collecting power from the sea, through turning submerged turbines or bouncing wave-energy converters, is a rising outskirt in the sustainable power source. Specialists have been checking how these systems will influence fish and different critters that swim by. However, with most accessible innovation, researchers can get just infrequent looks of what’s happening underneath….
Channel News Asia Australian researchers believe they have detected a dramatic decline in shark numbers over the last half century, findings that could challenge the use of culls as a way of responding to attacks. The number of some shark species caught in nets off the state of Queensland have fallen between 74-92 per cent…
Sky News Chelsea fans have been accused of racist chanting in their Europa League draw away at Vidi on Thursday night. UEFA has been made aware of alleged racist chanting at the Groupama Arena in Budapest where Chelsea fans were reportedly heard using an antisemitic term in a song aimed at rivals Tottenham. This follows…
Tech Explorist Sulfur is the 10th most abundant element in the universe. Today, it’s most common use is in the manufacture of sulfuric acid, which in turn goes into fertilizers, batteries, and cleaners. It’s also used to refine oil and in processing ores. Much qualitative structure-property correlations between diradical character and emerging molecular properties of…
NDTV A possible burglar had to be rescued from the grease vent of a vacant Chinese restaurant in California, USA, after being trapped there for two days. Alameda County Sheriff’s Office said in a Facebook post that emergency crews responded to reports of a “a faint voice calling for help” from the building in the…