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The latest news from Nature 25 April 2012

Master’s student Saliha Mohamad and her professor, Suhaimi Abdul Talib of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia, discovered that sulphur and nitrogen can help us get rid of the old age problem of smelly drains.

Team hopes findings will bolster practice’s reputation as a nonpharmacolgical treatment

The signing of an agreement between The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and China Academy of Space Technology has brought together top-notch experts from both sides to work on the development of sophisticated space tool for collecting sample of lunar rock in the third phase of China's lunar exploration programme.

Latest News from Nature 22 April 2012

The Parabolic Team of Universiti Kuala Lumpur had actuated Parabolic Flights from March 23 till 28, 2012 over the airspace of Nagoya Japan. The flights were performed using a modified jet of the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA).

“ There is a need for new strategy as the world today suffers from the lack of social justice, which has become an odd attribute of most national economies”, said MARA’s Chairman Y. B. Dato’ Seri Idris Jusoh.

A good example of an institution trying a new model is Albukhary International University in Malaysia. This institution just opened its doors to its first undergraduate students from 47 countries. All students receive a full scholarship and come from a low-income family and underprivileged or disadvantaged background.

On Monday, April 9, 2012, the US-Japan Higher Education Panel was held at the Rihga Royal Hotel Tokyo under Waseda University’s auspices.

Latest news from Nature 18 April 2012

Research group headed by Professor Takashi Tsuji demonstrates regenerating “functional hair regeneration from adult stem cells” Substantial advance in the development of next-generation of “organ replacement regenerative therapies”

The latest news from Scientific American 17 Apriil 2012

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) further strengthened its relationship with the universities of higher learning in Japan through the signing of two memorandums of understanding (MoU) recently.

Latest news from Nature 15 April 2012

"KineLabs" is a free software platform with three rehabilitation games for elderly people and persons after stroke to have fun while enhancing their motor skills in a 3D virtual environment.

Latest press release from Nature, 11 April 2012

Guest article by Rohan Samarajiva

A new design for nanoparticles that absorb low-energy light and emit high-energy light may find use in biological imaging

A low-temperature method could be used to ‘grow’ transparent zinc oxide films for use in displays and solar cells

The dissipation of energy from a vibrating gold nanoparticle is strongly influenced by the surrounding environment

A pioneering error correction technique developed at the A*STAR Data Storage Institute holds promise for the development of next-generation computers

OPINION - The big issue currently faced by contemporary society is how it can redevelop a modern “principle of freedom” in a more real way.

OPINION - Politics used to be a risky business, but politicians these days seem to regard politics as an arena that is tranquil and uneventful, where they can make a fortune if they declare that their efforts are for the sake of the nation and the people or that they think from the standpoint of the people.

This new method is capable of reducing the price of carbon nanotubes from USD100 - USD700 to just USD 15 to USD 35 for each gram, much lower than world market prices

SAITAMA, JAPAN, 6 APRIL 2012: Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) today signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) with RIKEN Institute Japan to further strengthen the research initiatives and sharing of technology between the two institutions.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include Converting human skin cells into neurons more efficiently; Evolution in the oceans; Telling the good from the bad in the gut and Efficient genome-scale genetic engineering in bacteria

Evidence that the most deadly species of malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum, is becoming resistant to the front line treatment for malaria on the border of Thailand and Myanmar is reported in The Lancet today. This increases concern that resistance could now spread to India and then Africa. Eliminating malaria might then prove impossible.

Latest news from Nature 04 April 2012

Nishioka and Ichikawa, researchers from Japan’s largest steel production company, describe recent developments in TMCP Technology in the latest issue of Science and Technology of Advanced Materials Vol. 13 (2012).

Panels always seem to damage during the installation of kitchen cabinets in Malaysian kitchens. The damages are in the form of split holes, loose holes and delamination. Hence Falah Abu and Mansur Ahmad of UiTM, Shah Alam, Malaysia studied the quality of particleboard panels in 28 Malaysian kitchens.