Tag Archives: Science

MNA Feature Desk: Firdausi Qadri, a Bangladeshi researcher, has been named for the 22nd L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Awards. The UNESCO announced the names of the five winners of the awards, with Firdausi as the winner from the Asia-Pacific region, on Tuesday Firdausi is the head of the Mucosal Immunology and Vaccinology Unit of the Infectious Diseases Division at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease and Research, Bangladesh or icddr, b. The UNESCO said it awarded her for her outstanding work to understand and prevent infectious diseases affecting children in developing countries, and promote early diagnosis and vaccination with ...

MNA Science & Tech Desk: Tales of a giant creature lurking beneath the murky waves of Loch Ness have been around for more than 1,500 years — and one academic hopes the marvels of modern science can finally unravel the mystery. Neil Gemmell has travelled from the University of Otago in New Zealand to collect water samples in the Scottish lake, in the hope of finding out more about the creatures that inhabit its depths. “Over 1,000 people claim that they have seen a monster. Maybe there is something extraordinary out there,” he told news agency, as he dropped a ...

MNA Feature Desk: The world is observing the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. The United Nations has set aside this day in order to reflect on the wide gaps between the male and female genders in the study of science. The world body says “a significant gender gap has persisted throughout the years at all levels of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines all over the world. Even though women have made tremendous progresses towards increasing their participation in higher education, they are still underrepresented in these fields.” The United Nations, in recognition of this gap, ...

MNA Technology Desk: Enter Stephen Hawking with the not-so-glad tidings of a planetary disaster on Earth. The famous theoretical physicist said that a likely disaster on Earth is a ‘near certainty’ and linked this disaster to the ever-increasing risks due to advancing science and technology. Hawking was speaking to Radio Times and said that the genetically engineered viruses, global warming and nuclear war are threats that are just around the cornet to take the humanity out in the foreseeable future. He stated with the publication that these threats are real and although “the chance of a disaster on planet Earth ...