KATHMANDU, Jan 9 – TikTok’s search function is rapidly becoming Nepal’s preferred tool for discovering content, with millions of users turning to the video-sharing app to explore ideas, learn skills and engage with material that…
Shrinking data for surgical training
Technique that reduces video files to one-tenth their initial size enables speedy analysis of laparoscopic procedures. [caption id="attachment_12556" align="alignnone" width="615"] Researchers at MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital have designed a new system that can efficiently…
Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy
Modular, off-grid desalination technology could supply families, towns [caption id="attachment_12551" align="alignnone" width="809"] Rice University researchers (from left) Naomi Halas, Qilin Li, Peter Nordlander, Seth Pederson, Alessandro Alabastri and Pratiksha Dongare with a scaled-up test bed…
Orion frame work
[caption id="attachment_12544" align="alignnone" width="700"] Orion frame work[/caption] Set to be shipped to the USA around the New Year, ESA’s contribution to NASA’s Orion spacecraft is taking shape at Airbus in Bremen, Germany. This is no…
Testing the metrics
MIT researchers refine yardstick for measuring schools and teachers. [caption id="attachment_12541" align="alignnone" width="633"] A new study by an MIT-based team of economists has developed a novel way of evaluating Value-Added Models (VAMs), which assess teachers…