Science & Tech

NASA GRAIL Mission Provides Insights into Moon Impacts

Oct. 28 : Astronomers are using data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory mission to provide new insights into the huge impacts that dominated the early history of Earth’s moon and other solid worlds, like Earth, Mars, and the satellites of the outer solar system. In two papers, published this week in the journal […]


Widespread cyberattack takes down sites worldwide

Oct. 22: A number of popular websites like Twitter and Netflix went down for some users on Friday in a massive cyberattack with international reach. Affected sites included Twitter (TWTR, Tech30), Etsy (ETSY), Github, Vox, Spotify, Airbnb, Netflix (NFLX, Tech30) and Reddit. Dyn, which manages website domains and routes internet traffic, experienced two distributed denial […]


Are You Ready for a Computer That Reads Your Mind?

Oct. 22: The first computers cost millions of dollars and were locked inside rooms equipped with special electrical circuits and air conditioning. The only people who could use them had been trained to write programs in that specific computer’s language. Today, gesture-based interactions, using multitouch pads and touchscreens, and exploration of virtual 3D spaces allow […]


Facebook to allow graphic posts if deemed ‘newsworthy’

Oct. 22: Facebook is taking steps to avoid a repeat of last month’s Napalm Girl controversy, while potentially opening itself up to a new headache. Facebook (FB, Tech30) announced Friday that it plans to cut down censorship of offensive posts that may violate its community standards against nudity and violence — that is, if those […]


High-Potency Pot Doubles Risk of Marijuana Dependence

Oct. 21: The more potent the pot is, the more likely a person who uses it is to become dependent on it, a new study from the United Kingdom finds. People in the study who used “high-potency” marijuana were twice as likely to become dependent as those who used lower-potency forms of the drug, according […]


‘Smart’ system to issue driving license across country

Kathmandu / Oct 18: The Department of Transport Management is to bring the ‘smart card system’ into force to issue the driving license across the country from the next month. The system which is currently in practice only in the Bagmati Zone will be applicable across the country from next month, according to Department Director […]


Soon a plane could fly through Venus’s atmosphere

Oct. 04: The ambitious project would see the plane cruise through the sulfurous skies of Venus for years, sampling the acidic alien atmosphere directly and observe the venusian surface from 50 km up. A US aerospace company is planning to build an inflatable propeller plane that could fly through Venus’s atmosphere in 2021. The ambitious […]


What to expect from Google’s big tech event

Oct. 04: Google will most likely unveil its latest slate of gadgets on Tuesday, and already there are rumblings of what to expect from the tech giant. The company hasn’t said what its event in San Francisco will entail, but fall is when tech companies usually start peddling their new wares, and Google is no […]


AI isn’t smart enough to keep you on a strict diet — yet

Oct. 04: Could snapping photos of food help you eat healthier? That’s the promise of Snap It. Launched by digital health and weight-loss platform Lose It!, the new feature of an already existing app proposes a simple solution to those who struggle to keep track of their caloric intake: Take a photo of your food, and […]


Drepanosaurus – A Small Reptile with a Rearsome Finger

Oct. 04: A newly published study confirms that Drepanosaurus, a prehistoric cross between a chameleon and an anteater, was a small reptile with a fearsome finger. The second digit of its forelimb sported a massive claw. Scientists analyzed 212-million-year-old Drepanosaurus arm fossils that were discovered at the Hayden Quarry in Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. The […]




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