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…
Nurturing scientific talent for Singapore’s development
Singapore's Agency for Science, Technology and Research has held the Scholarship Awards Ceremony. Singapore—The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) welcomed a new cohort of scholars and fellows that will add to Singapore’s vibrant…
From Mountains to Moons: Multiple Discoveries from NASA’s…
Icy mountains on Pluto and a new, crisp view of its largest moon, Charon, are among the several discoveries announced Wednesday by NASA's New Horizons team, just one day after the spacecraft’s first ever Pluto flyby. "Pluto…
Gene Therapy Makes Deaf Mice Hear
[caption id="attachment_5258" align="alignright" width="300"] Researchers have designed an adeno-associated virus that delivers the Tmc gene into the hair cells of the inner ear, which restored hearing in genetically deaf mice. [Credit: V. Altounian/ Science Translational…
Europe’s MSG-4 weather satellite delivered into orbit
[caption id="attachment_5251" align="alignright" width="300"] MSG-4 liftoff[/caption] The last weather satellite in Europe’s highly successful Meteosat Second Generation series lifted off on an Ariane 5 launcher at 21:42 GMT (23:42 CEST) on 15 July from Europe’s Spaceport…