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Hundreds of top earthquake engineers are gathering in Christchurch this week to share knowledge and make New Zealand seismically more resilient. “Earthquake engineering in New Zealand has made huge leaps and we have learned many lessons since the Canterbury ...

It’s autumn, it’s getting colder, there are westerlies, and it will be wet and windy. The week ahead doesn’t have much to brag about. Muggy warmth smothered much of Aotearoa over the weekend, making us feel like summer was still here. As 2021 ...

Published April 11, 2021 3:48pm Doctors on Friday continued to debate the merits of ivermectin in a fireside chat organized by the Philippine-American Academy of Science and Engineering. During the Zoom session, Dr. Tess Lawrie of The Evidence-Based Medicine Consultancy Ltd. presented her analysis of studies that looked into the use of ivermectin as a COVID-19 treatment. Citing her meta-analysis, there were few serious adverse events (SAEs) recorded during ivermectin use during these studie...

Few women choose to study mathematics at university, in part because it is regarded as an intellect

Regulations have been tightened on air pollutants in exhaust emissions from diesel vehicles. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) KYOTO—A research team said it has developed a durable alloy that can remove nitrogen oxides from automobile exhaust and is 90 percent cheaper than a conventional material that costs more than gold. “Exhaust purification falls in the technological field Japan is good at, so we want to make the new material commercially available,” said Kohei Kusada, an associate professor...

How to watch NASA drop a test spacecraft into a million-gallon pool The Orion spacecraft is designed to carry astronauts to the moon and then land in the ocean when it gets back to Earth. Listen - 01:29 Enlarge Image NASA is performing a series of water drop tests on a test version of the Orion capsule. NASA NASAs Artemis program is aiming to take astronauts back to the moon for the first time since the...

Northeasterly winds affecting Luzon, Visayas areas —PAGASA Published April 4, 2021 4:50pm The northeasterly wind flow will bring partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated light rains over Metro Manila, and the rest of Luzon and Visayas, PAGASA said Sunday afternoon. In its 24-hour forecast, the weather agency said Mindanao will experience partly cloudy to cloudy skies with isolated rain showers due to localized thunderstorms. PAGASA advised affected residents to prepare for possible ...

Isamu Akasaki displays his Nobel Prize in Physics in December 2014. (Asahi Shimbun file photo) Japanese physicist Isamu Akasaki, co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 for the development and application of blue light-emitting diodes, died April 1 of pneumonia. He was 92. Akasaki, a special professor emeritus at Nagoyas Meijo University, began working with gallium nitride from the early 1970s viewing it as the catalyst for a potential energy-saving light source. While other researche...

Snow monkeys line up in the form of the Japanese script for “saru” (monkey) in Sumoto, Hyogo Prefecture, on Feb. 15 as they eat food laid out on the ground in the shape of the characters. The capacity to form the “monkey letters” is unique to the troop on Awajishima island, whose members can eat together irrespective of their ranks. (Takaharu Yagi) SUMOTO, Hyogo Prefecture--While large groups of humans have been discouraged against eating together during the COVID-19 pandemic, a troop o...

The bugs are burrowing out of their underground homes in 15 US states, plus Washington, DC. Prepare yourself for a lot of buzzing.