Tech Explorist: A research team that included a UChicago graduate student has discovered a planet that is estimated to be twice the size of earth. The planet located 226 light-years away from Earth within a star’s habitable zone. Moreover, the planet known as K2-288Bb could either be rocky or a gas-rich planet similar to Neptune…
Science Alert: A near-drowning had left the woman in a persistent vegetative state for nearly a decade. Her universe consisted mostly of a room at a Phoenix Hacienda HealthCare facility where she received round-the-clock care. So when she went into labor a few days after Christmas, her caretakers were flummoxed. “From what I’ve been told,…
ScienceAlert Women can experience lingering health problems years after workplace sexual harassment or sexual assault, a new study finds. These health problems can include high blood pressure, poor-quality sleep, anxiety and symptoms of depression, the researchers found after doing medical exams of about 300 women. The findings are timely given the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements,…
Afsan Chowdhury writes for DOT Last week I walked through the pedestrian under path opposite to Kaoran Bazar and saw scenes common everywhere. Daytime under passes are more respectable and clean but at night the real character peeps out just as people when asleep can never hide their souls. It’s actually not very dirty –shocked…
Syed Nasir Ershad: Some research said that Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s nuptials would boost the UK economy by millions. Statistics have shown that the royal family has a huge impact on the economy and that the monarchy makes millions for the UK each year. Research also showed that the Royal Family raked in more…
Science Alert According to a straightforward interpretation of general relativity, the Big Bang wasn’t the start of ‘everything’. Taking Einstein’s famous equations at face value and making as few assumptions as possible, a team of researchers has rewound the clock on our Universe to find it wouldn’t lead to a stopping point at all, but…
Jatin Sharkar speaks to DOT : Merely hearing about PEC and JSC boils my blood. There’s no need to celebrate these results so much. The country’s top academics have all suggested scrapping PSC and JSC. And instead, these are being celebrated. I reject this practice of obsessing over passing percentage, which board did best, etc….
DOT Desk: Based on the 1952 Language Movement, the film Phagun Hawa is set to release on February 8, under the banner of Impress Telefilm Limited. The film is adapted from a story named Bou Kotha Kou, written by Tito Rahman. Directed by Tauquir Ahmed, the film was shot in Paikgachha Upazila of Khulna, reports…
Samiul Bashar Samin English speakers know that their language is odd. So do people saddled with learning it non-natively. The oddity that we all perceive most readily is its spelling, which is indeed a nightmare. In countries where English isn’t spoken, there is no such thing as a ‘spelling bee’ competition. For a normal language,…
Straits Times: The youth charity founded by Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, said it will not accept any new donations from Huawei Technologies “in light of public concerns”, in the latest sign of strain in one of the Chinese company’s biggest markets. Huawei is a major supplier of broadband gear and mobile networks…