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…
Particles pull last drops of oil from well…
Oil and water tend to separate, but they mix well enough to form stable oil-in-water emulsions in produced water from oil reservoirs to become a problem. Rice University scientists have developed a nanoparticle-based solution that reliably removes…
PolyU develops novel self-fitting scaffold for bone regeneration
Researchers from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have designed and fabricated a high performing self-fitting bone scaffold by combining a shape memory foam and hydroxyapatite (the principal mineral component of bone tissue). It can…
Eugene Parker Solar Probe on Historic Journey to…
[caption id="attachment_15820" align="alignnone" width="1024"] Physicist Eugene Parker watches the launch of the spacecraft that bears his name — NASA’s Parker Solar Probe — early in the morning of Aug. 12, 2018. Credits: NASA [/caption] Hours before…
Nasa launches Parker Solar Probe to closer look…
[caption id="attachment_15817" align="alignnone" width="1041"] NASA[/caption] NASA has launched Parker Solar Probe to closer look the Sun. The Parker solar probe lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space, Florida. The spacecraft was built by Applied Physics…