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…
Dangol conferred with science and technology journalism award
[caption id="attachment_15475" align="alignnone" width="800"] Journalist Laxman Dangol being awarded the Science and Technology Journalism Award by Minister for Education, Science and Technology Giriraj Mani Pokhrel, at the premises of Nepal Academy of Science and Technology…
Upper and lower plate controls on Tohoku-oki earthquake
Researchers at Tohoku University’s Department of Geophysics, have been studying the great Tohoku-oki earthquake which occurred on March 11, 2011, to the east of Japan’s Honshu Island (Fig. 1). The earthquake, which registered with a…
Blind robot can climb stairs littered with obstacles
Improved design may be used for exploring disaster zones and other dangerous or inaccessible environments. CAMBRIDGE, Mass -- MIT’s Cheetah 3 robot can now leap and gallop across rough terrain, climb a staircase littered with debris,…
Study: oxygen loss in the coastal Baltic Sea…
The Baltic Sea is home to some of the world’s largest dead zones, areas of oxygen-starved waters where most marine animals can’t survive. But while parts of this sea have long suffered from low oxygen levels,…