By Ros Krasny and Alina Selyukh
Tag: Science
Twitter announces new rules to crack down on abuse
By PanArmenian
iPhones and iPads can’t be banned
After the U.S International Trade Commission has placed a ban on importing and selling older iPhone models and tablets of Apple, the Obama administration has decided to intervene by putting a halt to the ban. Apparently, the ITC has ruled…
Indonesia’s $10M cloud-seeding plan to slow haze
The Indonesian government will spend 100 billion rupiah — $10 million — on a cloud-seeding scheme to reduce the haze plaguing Sumatra, Singapore, and Malaysia.
Scientists discover new, incredible species
It’s every scientist’s dream to travel to a remote, unexplored place looking for as many new and interesting species as they can find. This was a dream come true for the 15 Mozambican and international scientists, led by Piotr Naskrecki,…
Facebook brings video to Instagram
Jennifer Van Grove
Samsung bets on smartphone with zoom appeal
SEOUL—Samsung Electronics Co., a dominant player for an array of tech products from chips to smartphones, has a weakness: digital cameras.
Mysterious sea creature in UK shore was an eel
A mysterious sea creature with a set of sharp teeth washed up on a U.K. beach last week, prompting wide speculation as to what it could be—the wildest being a dinosaur or the Loch Ness Monster.
‘Yuri Gagarin’s flight to the Outer Space’ remembered
To mark the 50th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight to the Outer Space, a programme was held at the Russian Centre of Science and Culture (RCSC) in the city’s Dhanmondi area recently.
First solar plane on cross-country US trip
The first-ever manned airplane that can fly by day or night on the sun’s power alone soared over the western United States late Friday on the first leg of cross-country journey.
Passenger spaceship completes rocket test flight
A six-passenger spaceship owned by an offshoot of Virgin Group fired its rocket engine in flight for the first time on Monday, a key step toward the start of commercial service in about a year, Virgin owner Richard Branson said.
Research centre innovates six new fruits
The Rajshahi Fruit Research Centre has, so far, innovated six new fruit varieties through intensive field-level research during the last 18 years.
Neil Armstrong lied?
The famous first words uttered by the first person on the moon, Neil Armstrong, may not have been as spontaneous as commonly thought, according to Armstrong’s brother.
Pharaoh’s throat was slit ‘by assassin’
bdnews24.com/Reuters Rome, Dec 19 — The Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses III, whose death has puzzled historians for centuries, had his throat slit in a succession plot concocted by his wife and son, a new analysis suggests. New CT scans have revealed…
Poland stumbles on journey to hi-tech
bdnews24.com/Reuters WARSAW – Polish scientist Miroslaw Grudzien built the infra-red detectors that NASA uses to explore Mars, but getting a business development loan nearly defeated him. His firm, which made sensors on the US space agency’s Mars rover Curiosity, sought…