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…
Researchers successfully transplant bioengineered lungs in pig
[caption id="attachment_15743" align="alignnone" width="665"] A research team at the University of Texas Medical Branch have bioengineered lungs and transplanted them into adult pigs with no medical complication. Credit: The University of Texas Medical Branch at…
Homo sapiens developed a new ecological niche that…
Critical review of growing archaeological and palaeoenvironmental datasets relating to the Middle and Late Pleistocene (300-12 thousand years ago) hominin dispersals within and beyond Africa, published today in Nature Human Behaviour, demonstrates unique environmental settings and…
Scientists discover cause of aging related disease in…
[caption id="attachment_15738" align="alignright" width="250"] By Adityarup “Rup” Chakravorty[/caption] In a study published in Aging Cell, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison show that mice making too much of a human protein called AT-1 show signs of…
Anti-ulcer benefits of honey investigated
Induced stomach ulcer (gastric ulcer) was smaller and less invasive in rats that regularly consumed a type of honey produced by a stingless bee in Malaysia. The study, published in the Pertanika Journal of Science…