November 28: Federal transportation officials are rethinking their position on self-driving cars with an eye toward getting the emerging technology into the public’s hands. Just two years ago, the U.S. Department of Transportation struck a cautious tone. Its official policy statement, published in May 2013, says cars should be limited to testing and not “authorized […]
November 27: VY Canis Majoris is a stellar goliath, a red hypergiant, one of the largest known stars in the Milky Way. It is 30–40 times the mass of the Sun and 300,000 times more luminous. In its current state, the star would encompass the orbit of Jupiter, having expanded tremendously as it enters the […]
Kalikot / November 28: Internet service has been started for the first time in rural Raskot area of remote Kalikot district with the initiatives of a youth. The internet service was installed in Panchadeval Higher Secondary School based in Mehalmudi VDC with the lone efforts of Santosh Kumar Shahi of Sipkhana VDC-2 of the district. […]
By Krishna Sapkota Kathmandu: Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a new high-profile global initiative that aims at securing concrete commitments from governments to promote openness, empower citizens, fight corruption and harness new technologies to strengthen governance. These commitments respond to four values: transparency, accountability, civic engagement and innovation. It envisages government and civil society working […]
November 20: You just broke up with your girlfriend of a year. You’ve spent the last three days sulking on your sofa, too devastated to shower or eat anything but string cheese. You idly open Facebook between Netflix binges and see your ex has posted a smiling photo of a night out on the town. […]
November 20: Job opportunities for pigeons have been few and far between since electronic communication made their skills as messengers obsolete. But now it seems they could be put to work analysing medical images. So says the team who trained pigeons to distinguish between healthy and cancerous breast tissue. Richard Levenson at the University of […]
November 20: A digital crypto-currency has launched that is generated by human movement. Bitwalking dollars will be earned by walking, unlike other digital currencies such as Bitcoins that are “mined” by computers. A phone application counts and verifies users’ steps, with walkers earning approximately 1 BW$ for about 10,000 steps (about five miles). Initially, users […]
November 19: Neuroscientists from MIT have identified a new mechanism that allows the brain to strengthen links between neurons. When the brain forms memories or learns a new task, it encodes the new information by tuning connections between neurons. MIT neuroscientists have discovered a novel mechanism that contributes to the strengthening of these connections, also […]
November 13, 2015 : New research from the Salk Institute shows that the experimental Alzheimer’s drug J147 has a host of unexpected anti-aging effects in animals. The Salk team expanded upon their previous development of a drug candidate, called J147, which takes a different tack by targeting Alzheimer’s major risk factor–old age. In the new […]
November 12, 2015: An international team of astronomers has discovered some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way. These stars could contain vital clues about the early Universe, including an indication of how the first stars died. These stars, which have been at the very center of the Milky Way for billions of years, […]
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