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…
Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) partners Japanese university…
New nanosatellite to use NTU's micro-propulsion technology and Kyutech's Wi-Fi technology in space [caption id="attachment_5237" align="alignright" width="300"] NTU Assoc Prof Low Kay Soon (centre) holding the prototype of the AOBA VELOX-III microthruster with his researchers,…
Nonmagnetic elements form unique magnet
Rice University scientists combine titanium and gold to make itinerant antiferromagnet [caption id="attachment_5233" align="alignnone" width="960"] Measurements at Rice University show that a crystalline form of titanium and gold – TiAu – becomes magnetic (red peak)…
CERN’s LHCb experiment reports observation of exotic pentaquark…
[caption id="attachment_5219" align="alignnone" width="593"] Illustration of the possible layout of the quarks in a pentaquark particle such as those discovered at LHCb. The five quarks might be tightly bonded (left). They might also be assembled…
Rosetta preparing for perihelion
[caption id="attachment_5216" align="alignnone" width="625"] Comet around perihelion[/caption] Rosetta’s investigations of its comet are continuing as the mission teams count down the last month to perihelion – the closest point to the Sun along the comet’s…