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BMU opens Dry Pharmacology Lab to boost drug research
4+ hour, 14+ min ago (426+ words) Wednesday July 01, 2026 Bangladesh Medical University Vice-Chancellor Professor Dr FM Siddiqui inaugurated the lab on Wednesday, 1 July, 2026, during a visit to the Department of Pharmacology. The lab has been established under HEAT Project 12264. The programme was chaired by Dr Elora Sharmin,…...
Generating heat without carbon, how does a molecular solar battery work?
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (156+ words) The Business Standard Grace Hahn's research, MOST technology, can store the sun's heat not directly as electricity, but chemically inside molecules. The molecules change in sunlight to "lock" the energy, and then when a specific trigger is given, that energy…...
Bangladesh debuts at Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad in Moscow
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (293+ words) Tuesday April 21, 2026 Bangladesh has participated for the first time in the 60th International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad (IMCh O-60), being held in Moscow, Russia, from 15 April to 23 April. Organised jointly by Lomonosov Moscow State University and the Melnichenko Foundation, the prestigious competition has…...
Bacterial shell protein shows promise for safe, wearable electronics
5+ mon, 3+ week ago (298+ words) Sunday January 11, 2026 A team of Indian scientists has discovered a semiconductor-like property in a self-assembling bacterial shell protein that could pave the way for safe, environmentally friendly wearable and implantable electronic devices. Researchers at the Institute of Nano Science and…...
Palestinian refugee Omar Yaghi's extraordinary journey to winning the Nobel Prize
8+ mon, 3+ week ago (540+ words) Thursday October 09, 2025 Studying chemistry was never an obvious path for Omar Yaghi, the 2025 Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry. Born to a Palestinian refugee family and raised with his many siblings in a single room in Amman, Jordan, Yaghi grew up…...