18+ hour, 49+ min ago   (233+ words) Muscat – Researchers at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) have mapped a large wedge of seawater extending into a coastal aquifer in northern Oman, providing a new baseline for monitoring a threat that has damaged groundwater quality and affected agriculture. The study,…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (292+ words) DEVIGHAT, Nepal, Sept 9 (Reuters) – With roads and bridges destroyed and helicopters busy with search and rescue operations after last month’s devastating floods, Nepal’s ​army is turning to drones to deliver relief ‌to displaced people. At least 1,367 people are confirmed dead…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (272+ words) Rasuwa. A drone to be used for delivering relief materials in flood-affected areas has been tested and brought into use in the Trisuli river. The Chinese government has provided four drones to Nepal for the transportation of food and other…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1211+ words) Once deployed mainly by international rescue teams after the 2015 earthquake, Nepal’s drone expertise is now helping deliver supplies, search for survivors and even airlift bodies from areas rescuers cannot safely reach. View all posts by Sangam Prasain → KATHMANDU – On Monday,…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (71+ words) A new artificial-intelligence architecture designed to handle the jagged, unruly mathematics of real-world systems has outperformed both conventional neural networks and established optimization software in a demanding test involving a French hydraulic valley. Called P1-KAN, the model is a new…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (245+ words) The Guardian Sand overextraction weakening riverbanks as concrete demand soars Research finds demand has more than doubled since 2000 and 80% of current demand comes from Asia A booming demand for concrete has resulted in sand and gravel being extracted from riverbeds…...

3+ week, 2+ hour ago   (720+ words) Updated - August 24, 2026 02:18 pm IST When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But thunder doesn’t just travel through the atmosphere to our ears. When that energy reaches the ground,…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (86+ words) controlglobal.com Flow measurement is in the middle of a decisive shift. For example, differential pressure flowmeters—long saddled with complex, Reynolds-number-dependent calculations—are getting simpler. In this E-handbook, we discuss a new "Energy Correlation Method" that strips out discharge…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (308+ words) Rapid rock uplift biases estimate of channel steepness—numerical simulations predict that faster uplift generates longer hillslopes that extend well beyond the arbitrarily fixed catchment area that is used to mark where channels begin. The resulting estimates of local “channel…...