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…
Optical ‘Dog’s Nose’ Developed to Detect Cancer
[caption id="attachment_5192" align="alignright" width="240"] source: thebark[/caption] Researchers at the University of Adelaide in Australia are using optical spectroscopy to develop a quick, non-invasive “breath test” they believe will have the potential to screen for a…
Using garlic to combat antimicrobial resistant urinary tract…
Garlic extract may be an effective weapon against multi-drug resistant strains of pathogenic bacteria associated with urinary tract infections (UTI), according to a recent study published in the Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science. [caption…
Cutting cost and power consumption for big data
New network design exploits cheap, power-efficient flash memory without sacrificing speed. [caption id="attachment_5185" align="alignnone" width="639"] Image: iStock[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Random-access memory, or RAM, is where computers like to store the data they’re working on. A…
Tunneling out of the Surface
A research team comprising scientists from Tohoku University, RIKEN, the University of Tokyo, Chiba University and University College London have discovered a new chemical reaction pathway on titanium dioxide (TiO2), an important photocatalytic material. [caption…