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…
Origami anything
New algorithm generates practical paper-folding patterns to produce any 3-D structure. [caption id="attachment_12582" align="alignnone" width="639"] Researchers have created a universal algorithm for folding origami shapes that guarantees a minimum number of seams.Image: Christine Daniloff/MIT[/caption] CAMBRIDGE,…
Rice U. chemists create 3-D printed graphene foam
[caption id="attachment_12575" align="alignright" width="171"] James Tour (Photo by Jeff Fitlow/Rice University)[/caption] HOUSTON -- Nanotechnologists from Rice University and China's Tianjin University have used 3-D laser printing to fabricate centimeter-sized objects of atomically thin graphene. The…
New technique makes brain scans better
Boosting quality of patient MRIs could enable large-scale studies of stroke outcome. [caption id="attachment_12571" align="alignnone" width="639"] Researchers at MIT and other institutions have devised a way to boost the quality of low-resolution patient MRI scans…
Levels of Serum Amyloid A in Bone Sarcomas…
In a recent study published in Electrophoresis, University of Malaya’s researchers found significant correlation between increased levels of serum amyloid A (SAA) in patients with three different bone sarcomas: pleomorphic sarcoma (PS), osteosarcoma (OS) and…