SASabbir Ahmad

1. Article · Aug 31, 2026 · Sabbir Ahmad

   Could atmospheric water harvesting help Bangladesh tackle water scarcity? (opens the original)

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   Omar Yaghi, as a boy, and his family in Amman, Jordan, used to get water only once every week or two. As a scientist, he later helped develop a material that can capture water from even the driest air. In 2025, he shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with two others for pioneering a class of materials known as metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). An MOF is a highly porous crystalline material built from metal ions and organic molecules. Its enormous internal surface allows capturing water vapour from

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2. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · Sabbir Ahmad

   Why does Biman keep fixing problems the hard way? (opens the original)

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   Reading the news of Biman Bangladesh Airlines flying engineers and spare parts about 7,000 kilometres from Dhaka to fix a Dreamliner stranded at Rome Fiumicino Airport, one cannot help but wonder: does this make any sense at all? Flight BG306 touched down in Rome on the morning of August 7, halfway through its journey from Toronto to Dhaka. What was meant to be a brief refuelling stop turned into a grounding after the Dreamliner reported a fault in its cabin pressure control system. For around e

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