Egg prices, in contrast, saw a modest decline. Farm-raised red eggs were selling for Tk 110 to Tk 115 per dozen, down from Tk 120 to Tk 125. White eggs fell to Tk 100 per dozen from Tk 120 last week.

NEW YORK (AP) — Anxiety, grief, anger, fear, helplessness. The emotional toll of climate change is broad-ranging, especially ...

Adam runs ‘Adams Apple’, a farm where he grows snake gourds and a wide range of other vegetables. The snake gourds are grown in a 300 square metre polytunnel at ‘Adams Apple' A weight (a rock) is tied ...

The new polymer achieves impressive stiffness, up to 11 gigapascals, despite its low density of only 0.5 grams per cubic ...

While plastic seed trays are convenient and essential for many gardeners, they aren't sustainable. Find out if loofah sponges ...

How to Use Your Home-Grown Sponges If you're using yours in the kitchen, cut open your dried luffa with a single vertical cut ...

This is a big advantage for the production." More information: Yoshimitsu Itoh et al, Electric double-layer synthesis of a sponge-like, lightweight reticular membrane, Science (2025).

Itoh and his team created a polymer network which can be useful as a filter as the network is dense enough to allow fluids to pass but block objects, including bacteria and viruses (which are also ...

“We developed a lightweight yet mechanically robust porous polymer, which resembles the fiber network of a natural loofah sponge. Though we did not set out to create something with such an appearance, ...

In a leap toward sustainable desalination, researchers have created a solar-powered sponge-like aerogel that turns seawater into drinkable water using just sunlight and a plastic cover. Unlike ...