PM2.5 trends in December – February: 2024-25 vs. 2025-26 I Courtesy: Suresh Pokhrel, ICIMOD Kathmandu, Feb 12 – Air quality in Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley showed a brief improvement in December but quickly deteriorated again in…
Atomic oxygen generator stimulates fire in the sky
[caption id="attachment_12420" align="alignnone" width="700"] Atomic oxygen generator[/caption] ESA has begun operating a new simulator that fires a laser to generate a variety of oxygen normally encountered only in low orbits – and known to eat…
Researchers engineer shape-shifting noodles
Sheets of gelatin transform into 3-D shapes when dunked in water; could save food shipping costs. [caption id="attachment_12417" align="alignnone" width="639"] These pasta shapes were caused by immersing a 2-D flat film into water.Image: Michael Indresano…
Stormtrooper at ESA
[caption id="attachment_12414" align="alignnone" width="700"] Stormtrooper at ESTEC, ESA, March 2017[/caption] At first sight it might seem obvious which of these ‘models’ is the odd one out: standing between the satellites is apparently a Star Wars…
Milk Thistle Shines Hope in the Treatment of…
Researchers from University of Malaya discover that herbal supplement (milk thistle) may be useful for improving liver damage in patients with fatty liver disease. [caption id="attachment_12407" align="alignnone" width="623"] A comparison between normal liver with nonalcoholic…