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…
Ultracold atoms used to verify 1963 prediction about…
HOUSTON -- Rice University atomic physicists have verified a key prediction from a 55-year-old theory about one-dimensional electronics that is increasingly relevant thanks to Silicon Valley's inexorable quest for miniaturization. "Chipmakers have been shrinking feature…
How sickled red blood cells stick to blood…
CAMBRIDGE, MA -- One of the most common complications of sickle-cell disease occurs when deformed red blood cells clump together, blocking tiny blood vessels and causing severe pain and swelling in the affected body parts.…
AWAKE achieves first ever acceleration of electrons in…
Geneva, In a paper published in the journal Nature, the AWAKE collaboration at CERNreports the first ever successful acceleration of electrons using a wave generated by protons zipping through a plasma. The acceleration obtained over a given…
Model can more naturally detect depression in conversations
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- To diagnose depression, clinicians interview patients, asking specific questions — about, say, past mental illnesses, lifestyle, and mood — and identify the condition based on the patient’s responses. In recent years, machine…