Humans will never migrate to a planet outside of Earth’s solar system because it would take far too long to get there, Swiss Nobel laureate Michel Mayor said Wednesday. Mayor and his colleague Didier Queloz were on Tuesday awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for their research refining techniques to detect so-called exoplanets. “If we are talking about exoplanets, things ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   Values are the guiding principles in our lives.  Leadership occurs within the context of core values. Leaders guide and facilitate others to make a positive difference in their own lives and to contribute to a larger good. Values inform the application of leadership qualities as the competencies of leadership are activated learned, developed, and practiced  within ...

By Mehfuz Ahmed: Since the founding of Conservative Friends of Bangladesh 13 years ago, I have led 5 visits to Bangladesh with Conservative Parliamentarians and activists. Our project, Shapla (named after the national flower of Bangladesh) which builds bridges between the UK and Bangladesh on economic, political and social fronts has been privileged to have had Cabinet Ministers feature. There ...

China’s first self-developed carbon-ion therapy system has been approved by the national drug regulator and obtained market access. This is the first time that the National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has approved a domestically produced carbon-ion therapy system, according to the official website of the national drug regulator. Installed in Wuwei Cancer Hospital in Gansu Province, the system was co-developed ...

Cape Canaveral, OCT 8 : The solar system has a new winner in the moon department. Twenty new moons have been found around Saturn, giving the ringed planet a total of 82, scientists said Monday. That beats Jupiter and its 79 moons. “It was fun to find that Saturn is the true moon king,” said astronomer Scott Sheppard of the ...

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has released the pictures of the moon surface clicked by the Orbiter High Resolution Camera (OHRC) mounted on the Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter. According to the ISRO, the pictures taken by the Orbiter from a height of 100 km from the moon surface are part of the Boguslawsky E Crater — measuring about 14 km in ...

Fatema Miah: Food is essential fundemental aspect for survival and the same food is the medicine for body to maintain healthy immune system.  Food necessity, from 2014 to 2016 (from the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organisation) indicate that around 795 million people (around 1 in 9 of the world’s 7.3 billion people) are chronically undernourished without access ...

Brazilian telecommunications giant Oi is putting Chinese company Huawei’s fifth-generation wireless telecommunication technology (5G technology) to the test during the ongoing Rock in Rio music festival. It is the largest trial of the 5G technology in Brazil. “Huawei gave us 50 handsets with access to the 5G network,” said Oi’s B2B operations manager Leonardo Enrique dos Santos Fernandes, adding that ...

Microsoft on Wednesday unveiled new Surface devices with twin-screens that open like books, including a notepad-sized version that will put it back in the smartphone game next year. Surface Duo was touted as the first device in the lineup to fit into a pants pocket, with two “paper-thin” 5.6-inch screens that unfold and work in harmony with a specially tailored ...

Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   Health care access for refugees and migrants Legal status is one of the most important determinants of the access of migrants to health services in a country. Each refugee and migrant must have full, uninterrupted access to a hospitable environment and, when needed, to high-quality health care, without discrimination on the basis of gender, age, religion, ...