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Nobel Prize for chemistry awarded to Charpentier and Doudna

Shawdesh Desk: French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier and American Jennifer A. Doudna have won the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing a method of genome editing known as CRISPR. The recipients

3 win physics Nobel award for black hole discoveries

Shawdesh desk: The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded for discoveries about black holes, with one half going to Roger Penrose and the other half jointly to Reinhard

3 win Nobel medicine award for hepatitis C virus discovery

Shawdesh Desk: Americans Harvey J. Alter and Charles M. Rice, and British scientist Michael Houghton were awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine or Physiology on Monday for the discovery of

Nobel Prizes and COVID-19: Slow, basic science may pay off

Shawdesh dEsk: While the world wants flashy quick fixes for everything, especially massive threats like the coronavirus and global warming, next week’s Nobel Prizes remind us that in science, slow

Zayed Siddiki’s ‘Purnograsher Kal’ premieres online

Shawdesh desk: Zayed Siddiki’s ‘Purnograsher Kal’ is scheduled to have its world premiere at 7pm on Thursday at country’s first pay-per-view movie OTT platform Lagvelki. Co-written by Helal Mohiuddin and

‘Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale’ to be aired on television on her birthday

Shawdesh Desk: ‘Hasina: A Daughter’s Tale’, a docudrama bringing to life the trials and tribulations Sheikh Hasina went through following the assassination of her father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is

Archaeologists unearth 27 coffins at Egypt’s Saqqara pyramid

Shawdesh desk: Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed more than two dozen ancient coffins in a vast necropolis south of Cairo, an official said Monday. The sarcophagi have remained unopened since they

WhiteBoard to give ‘balanced objective and clear messages to policymakers and youths’: Radwan Mujib

Radwan Mujib Siddiq on Sunday said that newly launched policy magazine WhiteBoard will always give ‘balanced objective and clear messages’ to the policymakers and youths. Radwan Mujib, editor-in-chief of WhiteBoard,