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…
Helping students stick with MOOCs
New techniques could help identify students at risk for dropping out of online courses. [caption id="attachment_4977" align="alignright" width="639"] Image: iStock (edited by MIT News)[/caption] CAMBRIDGE, Mass-- MOOCs — massive open online courses — grant huge numbers…
SMOS Sings The Song Of Ice And Fire
[caption id="attachment_4970" align="alignright" width="170"] SMOS[/caption] While ESA’s water mission continues to deliver key information on soil moisture and ocean salinity to advance our understanding of Earth, it is becoming increasingly important for ‘real world’ applications,…
Exploring the emergence of Malaysian “commuter families”
Commuter families normally consist of dual-career marriages that choose to establish separate homes to fulfill their career commitments. Around the world, the numbers of dual-income, dual-household families is on the rise, fuelled by such reasons…
3D Plasmonic Antenna Capable of Focusing Light into…
Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a 3D gap-plasmon antenna which can focus light into a few nanometers wide space. [caption id="attachment_4959" align="alignright" width="300"] Figure 1: 3D Gap-Plasmon Antenna Structure…