'So difficult': Winter snow, cold slam Northwest and Sierra

The Pacific Northwest and Sierra Nevada grappled Tuesday with another day of snow, ice and unseasonable cold that has disrupted traffic, caused closures and forced people to find refuge in emergency warming shelters.

World 29 Dec, 2021

Fuzzy logic: Why all things are a matter of degree

Lofti Zadeh, the distinguished mathematician, computer scientist, electrical engineer, artificial intelligence researcher, and professor emeritus of computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, US, did not know, at one point in time, much about subways. But, he knew the secret of trains, which purred through the outskirts of Sendai, Japan, halting with uncanny precision and saving 10 per cent of the average fuel usage.

Opinion 27 Dec, 2021

Joan Didion, peerless prose stylist, dies at 87

Joan Didion, the revered author and essayist whose precise social and personal commentary in such classics as "The White Album" and "The Year of Magical Thinking" made her a uniquely clear-eyed critic of turbulent times, has died. She was 87.

World 24 Dec, 2021

EDITORIAL - Win locals' trust

Until the restoration of democracy in 1990, Lo Manthang, or Upper Mustang, was off-limits to foreigners. They still require special permission from the Department of Immigration to visit the Hidden Kingdom so as to protect the local tradition from outside influence as well as their environment.

Opinion 10 Dec, 2021

Archaeological research obstructed in Mustang

Villagers from Thingkar, a small settlement to the north of Lo Manthang, Mustang, have barred a team of American scientists from carrying out historical research on Buddhist-era archaeology of the region.

Nepal 09 Dec, 2021

Economics Nobel honours 'natural experiments', from minimum wage to migration

Economists David Card, Joshua Angrist and Guido Imbens won the 2021 Nobel economics prize on Monday for pioneering "natural experiments" to show real-world economic impacts in areas from minimum wage increases in the U.S. fast-food sector to migration from Castro-era Cuba.

Science and Tech 12 Oct, 2021

Two Americans win Medicine Nobel for work on heat and touch

American scientists David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian won the 2021 Nobel Prize for Medicine on Monday for the discovery of receptors in the skin that sense temperature and touch and could pave the way for new pain-killers.

Science and Tech 05 Oct, 2021

2 win medicine Nobel for showing how we react to heat, touch

Two scientists won the Nobel Prize in medicine on Monday for their discoveries into how the human body perceives temperature and touch, revelations that could lead to new ways of treating pain or even heart disease.

World 04 Oct, 2021

US stem cell clinics boomed while FDA paused crackdown

Hundreds of clinics pushing unproven stem cell procedures caught a big break from the U.S. government in 2017: They would have three years to show that their questionable treatments were safe and worked before regulators started cracking down.

World 01 Oct, 2021

Just 7% of our DNA is unique to modern humans, study shows

What makes humans unique? Scientists have taken another step toward solving an enduring mystery with a new tool that may allow for more precise comparisons between the DNA of modern humans and that of our extinct ancestors.

Science and Tech 17 Jul, 2021

Domestic violence against newly married women on the rise amid

Despite significant progress made in the formulation of policy and programmes, violence against women is still widespread in Nepal.

Nepal 24 Jun, 2021

US vaccine surplus grows by the day as expiration dates loom

In Tennessee and North Carolina, demand for the COVID-19 vaccine has slowed down so much that they have given millions of doses back to the federal government, even though less than half of their total populations are vaccinated.

World 12 Jun, 2021