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Planning algorithm enables high-performance flight

Planning algorithm enables high-performance flight

A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically, and then tilts horizontally for forward…

Aug 23, 20236 min read
Pollutants are important to biodiversity’s role in spread of wildlife diseases

Pollutants are important to biodiversity’s role in spread of wildlife diseases

A new study of tadpoles at the University of Wisconsin–Madison illustrates how overlapping biological and environmental factors can…

Aug 22, 20236 min read
Discharge of Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water into the Sea begins on 24 August

Discharge of Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated Water into the Sea begins on 24 August

If there is no interference due to weather or sea conditions, the discharge of Fukushima Daiichi ALPS Treated…

Aug 22, 20232 min read
Down the tubes: Common PVC pipes can hack voice identification systems

Down the tubes: Common PVC pipes can hack voice identification systems

Researchers are in an arms race with hackers to prevent data theft. Their standard tools include strategies like…

Aug 22, 20234 min read
A new way to evaluate the impact of medical research 

A new way to evaluate the impact of medical research 

Scientific journals and research papers are evaluated by a metric known as their “impact factor,” which is based…

Aug 21, 20237 min read
NASA Records July 2023 as Hottest Month Ever Since 1880

NASA Records July 2023 as Hottest Month Ever Since 1880

According to scientists at NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York, July 2023 was hotter…

Aug 15, 20234 min read

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14th Annual Field Course in Conservation Biology & Global Health: At the Human-Environment Interface 

14th Annual Field Course in Conservation Biology & Global Health: At the Human-Environment Interface 

ByAmrita TuladharJan 21, 20152 min read

Kathmandu– A Training Program for University Students, Journalists, National Park Staff and Professionals has been organized by Nepal Biodiversity Research Society (NEBORS), Kathmandu and University of Washington (UW) Seattle, Washington, USA at the premises of Natural History Museum (NHM) on 2-6 February, 2015. The program is the continuation since a decade back by the generous effort of the […]

Prof. Dr. Rajah Rasiah

University of Malaya’s Professor awarded the 2014 TWAS Celso Furtado Prize

ByAmrita TuladharJan 9, 20153 min read

University of Malaya’s Professor Rajah Rasiah was awarded the 2014 Celso Furtado Prize in Social Sciences by The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). This was in recognition of his pioneering…

$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development

$118M gift from MIT alumnus will advance socially responsible and sustainable real estate development

ByAmrita TuladharJan 8, 20157 min read

Samuel Tak Lee MIT Real Estate Entrepreneurship Lab to include focus on China. (Cambridge, MA) — MIT has received one of the largest gifts in its history, from alumnus Samuel…

MED-EL Founders Ingeborg Hochmair, PhD, and Professor Erwin Hochmair Awarded 2015 Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering

MED-EL Founders Ingeborg Hochmair, PhD, and Professor Erwin Hochmair Awarded 2015 Russ Prize from the National Academy of Engineering

ByAmrita TuladharJan 8, 20155 min read

The National Academy of Engineering announced today that bioengineering pioneers and MED-EL Medical Electronics GmbH co-founders Ingeborg Hochmair, PhD, and Professor Erwin Hochmair have been awarded the 2015 Fritz J.…