An e-library was opened at the Business Studies Faculty of Dhaka University (DU) on Monday. DU Vice-chancellor Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique inaugurated the e-library, sponsored by leading mobile phone operator Robi, on the faculty premise. A total of 35…
By Olivia Becker Facing mounting public anger and ridicule, India announced Tuesday that it will lift its controversial and short-lived ban on pornographic websites, and clarified that it will only ban child porn. “The intermediaries [internet service providers] are hereby…
San Francisco, California – Matthew Markus, of biotech company Pembient, is holding up a rhinoceros horn worth thousands of dollars on the black market because a poacher had to risk his life to kill an endangered species to obtain it.At…
They look alike, act alike and long have been considered to be the same species.But, in the case of the golden jackals found across parts of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe, it turns out that appearances can be…
Ian Randall Editing the DNA of human blood cells has the potential to significantly reduce the impact of hereditary blood diseases such as sickle cell anaemia and thalassaemia, according to researchers from Australia and the United States. In their study,…
Scientists using NASA’s powerful Kepler telescope have found a planet beyond the solar system that is a close match to Earth.The planet, which is about 60 percent bigger than Earth, is located about 1,400 light years away in the constellation…
By Arthur White A Russian billionaire is bankrolling a $100 million effort to scan the cosmos for evidence of alien life, with a bonus $1 million contest to decide what to say to them. Alongside renowned physicist Stephen Hawking, technology…
A US spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion miles (4.88 billion km) that began nine and a half years ago.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft is poised to become the first probe to visit distant Pluto, capping a reconnaissance of the solar system that began more than 50 years ago.
Bangladesh has set out its course in building a technology park, inking a deal with leading local conglomerate Summit Group having partnership with India’s Infinity Infosys Parks Limited to boost the country’s growing ICT industry. “This is part of our…
Astronomers have found evidence of hidden supermassive black holes in the universe.Using NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) satellite observatory, the team detected the high-energy x-rays from five supermassive black holes previously clouded from direct view by dust and gas.
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of the ‘National Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Policy 2015’ seeking the ICT sector’s faster development and promotion to help the country achieve the middle-income status by 2021 and turn it into a…
More than half a billion years ago, a peculiar little creature with rows of spikes on its back and delicate, feather-like front limbs to strain bits of food from the water thrived in the primordial seas of what is now…
It was a creature so strange that experts literally could not make heads nor tails of it.But scientists said on Wednesday a new analysis of fossils of Hallucigenia, so named for its fantastical appearance, has given them for the first…
Research on wild kangaroos in Australia is challenging the notion that having a strong hand preference is a trait that developed primarily in people and other primates.Scientists said on Thursday that these Australian marsupials displayed a natural preference for using…
Providing insight into the sometimes mysterious biology of reproduction, researchers in Japan have identified a gene that controls whether the reproductive precursor cells known as germ cells eventually become sperm or eggs.
By Ryan Faith ic regime begins at Mach 5 or so — about one mile per second — and goes up from there. There’s not a super-precise, fixed definition, exactly, but these are the speeds at which all those equations…
Hackers with suspected links to China appear to have accessed sensitive data on US intelligence and military personnel, American officials say. Details of a major hack emerged last week, but officials have now given details of a potential second breach.…
NASA’s test run of a Mars landing system came to a quick end on Monday when the saucer-shaped vehicle’s parachute tore away after partly unfurling high over the Pacific Ocean, a NASA TV broadcast showed.
Examining rare individuals who are born unable to feel pain, an international team of researchers has identified a gene essential to make our brains sensitive to pain.The discovery could lead to new pain relief methods.
A genetically-engineered version of a virus that normally causes cold sores shows real promise for treating skin cancer, say researchers. The modified herpes virus is harmless to normal cells but when injected into tumours it replicates and releases substances to…
The ones with the biggest brains could indeed be the fittest to survive in this world as researchers have found that in times of crisis, even fish with larger brain sizes have an advantage over their peers.
State-owned Masdar Institute of Science and Technology is ramping up its efforts to support the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in achieving its goal of sending an unmanned space probe to Mars by 2021, a media report said on Saturday.The initiative…
Scientists digging among coastal rocks in Washington state have found the partial left femur of a two-legged carnivorous dinosaur, a fossil believed to be about 80 million years old and the first of its kind found in the state, scientists…
Jerry Nixon, a Microsoft development executive, said in a conference speech this week that Windows 10 would be the “last version” of the dominant desktop software. His comments were echoed by Microsoft which said it would update Windows in future…
The Bangladesh Bank has asked the banks to increase loan flow to the housing sector to help it overcome the current crisis.
Scientists in China have described one of the weirdest flying creatures ever discovered, a pigeon-size dinosaur with wings like a bat that lived not long before the first birds.
Magnitude mb 5.2 Region INDIA-BANGLADESH BORDER REGION Date time 2015-04-27 12:35:51.5 UTC Location 26.97 N ; 88.19 E Depth 10 km Distances 154 km W of Thimphu, Bhutan / pop: 98,676 / local time: 18:35:51.5 2015-04-27 58 km SW of…
Scientists have unearthed fossils of a strange dinosaur in southern Chile that boasts such an unusual combination of traits that they are comparing it to a platypus, that oddball egg-laying, duckbilled mammal from Australia.
Celebrating the Earth Day, NASA has released some of the most gorgeous images and a stunning video of planet Earth as captured from the International Space Station (ISS).