The building is being stressed beyond what was originally intended.
There’s no sidewalk shed that can fully protect you from chunks of concrete popping off a 1,400-foot-tall structure.
https://nypost.com/2025/10/20/us-news/432-park-ave-could-rain-chunks-of-concrete-if-nyc-supertalls-cracks-not-fixed/
2025年10月9日 19:29（2025年10月9日 19:31 更新）
酒造会社の獺祭（山口県岩国市）は9日、日本酒「獺祭」の原材料と醸造装置を、10月21日に鹿児島県の種子島宇宙センターから打ち上げると発表しました。
この醸造試験は、国際宇宙ステーション（ISS）で原材料を発酵させた「もろみ」の醸造を目的としています。新型無人補給機1号機に獺祭の素材を搭載し、宇宙空間での発酵プロセスを検証する初の試みです。
なお、大阪・関西万博のオーストリア館では、獺祭とのコラボ商品が販売されており、5月には大阪市此花区の夢洲にて話題となりました。
この記事は有料会員限定です。残り362文字。7日間無料トライアル、1日37円で読み放題。年払いならさらにお得です。
**NIRF 2025 Engineering Ranking: IIT Madras Tops Once Again**
The Ministry of Education announced the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 rankings on September 4, unveiling India’s premier higher education institutes across 17 categories. Among these, the Engineering stream rankings have garnered significant attention.
In the Engineering category, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IIT Madras) has once again secured the top position, reaffirming its academic and research excellence. Following closely are IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay, maintaining their status as leading engineering institutions in the country.
### Top 10 Engineering Institutes in NIRF 2025
1. IIT Madras
2. IIT Delhi
3. IIT Bombay
4. IIT Kanpur
5. IIT Kharagpur
6. IIT Roorkee
7. IIT Hyderabad
8. IIT Guwahati
9. National Institute of Technology (NIT) Tiruchirappalli
10. IIT (BHU) Varanasi
IIT Madras, based in Chennai, has not only topped the Engineering ranking but also leads the Overall category, demonstrating its sustained dominance in technical education and research excellence.
The 2025 NIRF rankings align with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), evaluating institutions across diverse streams including Overall, Universities, Colleges, Management, Medical, Law, and more.
Reflecting on the previous year, IITs continued to hold sway in the Engineering category, with the top eight positions occupied by IIT Madras, IIT Delhi, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Roorkee, IIT Guwahati, and IIT Hyderabad.
These rankings serve as a benchmark for academic quality and institutional performance, guiding students and stakeholders in making informed decisions about higher education in India.
https://www.freepressjournal.in/education/nirf-2025-engineering-ranking-out-iit-madras-leads-iit-delhi-iit-bombay-in-top-three
**Pizza-loving lizards to alcoholic bats: Bizarre research wins Ig Nobel**
*By Akash Pandey | Sep 19, 2025, 05:21 PM*
The 35th annual Ig Nobel Prize awards, a celebration of bizarre yet thought-provoking scientific achievements, took place recently at Boston University. The event was also streamed online, allowing a global audience to join in the fun. This year’s ceremony centered around the theme of **digestion**, featuring intriguing talks and unique performances.
One highlight was a presentation by Dr. Trisha Pasricha, who explored the curious connection between smartphone use on toilets and the incidence of hemorrhoids. Additionally, attendees enjoyed a mini-opera titled *“The Plight of the Gastroenterologist,”* adding an artistic touch to the scientific festivities.
### Unusual Research Topics Recognized
The Ig Nobel Prizes, awarded by actual Nobel laureates, honored a variety of unconventional studies that blend curiosity with humor. Some of the standout topics included painting cows with zebra stripes to reduce fly bites and investigating pizza preferences among different lizard species.
Among the notable winners were William B. Bean, who received a posthumous award for meticulously documenting the growth of his fingernail over 35 years. Julie Mennella and Gary Beauchamp were recognized for their research on how garlic consumption affects nursing babies. Meanwhile, Marcin Zajenkowski and Gilles Gignac studied how narcissists react when told they are intelligent, revealing quirky insights into human psychology.
### Innovative Chemistry and Engineering Research
The awards also celebrated groundbreaking work in chemistry and engineering. Rotem Naftalovich, Daniel Naftalovich, and Frank Greenway won the chemistry prize for their unusual study on eating Teflon to increase food volume without adding calories—an idea sure to spark both laughter and curiosity.
In the field of engineering design, Vikash Kumar and Sarthak Mittal examined how foul-smelling shoes influence the experience of using a shoe rack, blending everyday annoyances with scientific investigation.
The physics prize was awarded to a team that analyzed the clumping behavior of pasta sauce, a seemingly trivial phenomenon with surprisingly complex underlying principles.
Carly York, an associate professor of biology at Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, North Carolina, commented on the event’s overall impact: these winners perfectly fulfill the Ig Nobel’s mission—to make people laugh and then think.
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The Ig Nobel Prizes continue to celebrate the weird and wonderful side of science, proving that curiosity knows no bounds and that humor can be a powerful tool for learning.
https://www.newsbytesapp.com/news/science/bizarre-research-honored-at-2025-ig-nobel-prize-awards/story
