IT’S a sad reality that wild-animal rights are grossly violated throughout the world. Aggression like hunting for skins, trophy, uncured trophy, bones, and tusks means that several animal species are vanished. For providing safety and conservation of forest, wildlife and biodiversity the government has enacted Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act in 2012. Present scenario of […]
Twenty-one years he spent within the walls of Pabna Mental Hospital (PMH), but patient Mahabub Anwar could not go home even though he was well enough to go home. He could not be sent home even after his death. He was admitted to the hospital as a psychiatric patient of 33 years age on October […]
An ancient African genome has been sequenced for the first time. Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia. A comparison with genetic material from today’s Africans reveals how our ancient ancestors mixed and moved around the continents. The findings, published in the journal Science, suggests that about […]
Tunisian civil society groups won the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday for helping to create the only democracy to emerge from the Arab Spring, at a time when the country is under threat from jihadist violence. The Nobel panel said the award to the National Dialogue Quartet was intended as an “encouragement to the Tunisian people” […]
Wildlife Crime Control Unit of the forest department rescued 802 birds from Gazipur, and two traders were jailed yesterday. A team of the WCCU raided a warehouse near Joydebpur intersection around 7:00am and recovered the birds, including blossom-headed parakeet, munia, house sparrow and starling (shalik), inspector of the unit Ashim Mallick told The Daily Star. […]
Bangladeshi rice scientists are all set to conduct field tests of the world’s first vitamin A-enriched rice, popularly known as Golden Rice, before taking the variety to production phase. The success in vitamin A-rich rice comes in quick succession of the world’s first three zinc-rich rice varieties that Bangladesh released over the last couple of […]
Sweden’s Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich of the United States and Aziz Sancar, a Turkish-American, won the 2015 Nobel Chemistry Prize yesterday for work on how cells repair damaged DNA. The three opened a dazzling frontier in medicine by unveiling how the body repairs DNA mutations that can cause sickness and contribute to ageing, the Nobel […]
The last thing scientists searching for life on Mars want to find is a colony of hitchhiking microbes from Earth. To that end, an experiment poised to begin week aims to put some of the planet’s most tenacious bacteria through an ultimate survivors’ challenge. It would be extremely exciting to find life on another planet. […]
In the turmoil of China’s Cultural Revolution, scientist Tu Youyou joined a covert mission to find a cure for malaria. “Project 523,” was set up in 1967 by Chairman Mao Zedong, who wanted to help Communist troops fighting in the mosquito-ridden jungles of Vietnam, where they were losing more soldiers to malaria than bullets. “We […]
The 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics has been won by Takaaki Kajita and Arthur McDonald, for discovering how neutrinos switch between different “flavours”. Neutrinos are ubiquitous subatomic particles with almost no mass and which rarely interact with anything else, making them very difficult to study. Kajita and McDonald made important measurements of their properties using […]
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