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A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME), has signed a collaboration agreement with Petroleum Geo-Services (OSE:PGS), a geophysical company based in Norway that provides a range of services. IME will develop rugged inertial sensing technology to enable PGS to acquire more precise seismic data at higher sensitivity and at ultra-low frequencies.

Latest News from Nature Journals 27 February 2012

Waseda University Institute of e-Government is pleased to release the 2012 Waseda University International e-Government Ranking. This is the eighth consecutive year of monitoring the development of e-Government worldwide by the research team of Prof. Dr.Toshio Obi, Director of Institute of e-Government.

Researchers at the RIKEN-MIT Center for Neural Circuit Genetics have discovered an answer to the long-standing mystery of how brain cells can both remember new memories while also maintaining older ones.

A memorandum of agreement (MOA) was entered into by UP Diliman through Chancellor Caesar A. Saloma with the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) through Secretary Virgilio R. Delos Reyes and the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) led by its president Antonio Kalaw.

The RIKEN Center for Genomic Medicine is examining how drugs can be matched to a patient’s genetic information through the study of single nucleotide polymorphisms. Taisei Mushiroda from the Laboratory for Pharmacogenetics explains...

By training birds to ‘get rhythm’, scientists uncover evidence that our capacity to move in time with music may be connected with our ability to learn speech

Development of polymer film loaded with antibodies that can capture tumor cells shows promise as a diagnostic tool

Cutting-edge technologies to be developed at Baidu-I2R Research Centre (BIRC)

Albukhary International University is a wholly charitable university located in Alor Setar, Malaysia dedicated to providing students from disadvantaged or marginalised backgrounds a high quality education. ResearchSEA visited their campus to find out more.

The Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) has won the second best award of "The Very Best Innovation Invention Award" in the recent Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) after its researchers bagged four gold, three silver and 10 bronze medals

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) will highlight research findings to various other countries in the future.

Latest News from Nature 23 February 2012

In a bid to promote the understanding and adoption of corporate social responsibility (CSR), the Department of Management and Marketing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and the Hong Kong Productivity Council (HKPC) have jointly compiled the Hong Kong SME Business Sustainability Index.

With the sophisticated use of construction process simulation technology and positioning technologies such as GPS, researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed an integrated system which can uplift the standard of construction safety and enhance project efficiency.

City dwellers have been growing their own food for millennia, but the concept of urban agriculture been formally recognized in research and public policy since the mid 1990s. Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC) has played a leading role in forging this new discipline and raising awareness of it.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) yesterday officially became the first university in Malaysia to sell COOP 1Malaysia products.

Institutions of higher learning (IHL) in Malaysia must strive to create a closer relationship with universities in Saudi Arabia. This includes a collaboration involving research and academic matters related to students in the future.

Daisuke Ishida from Waseda University, Japan, discuss the influence that information technology such as the Internet has had on consumer behavior, from the three perspectives of engaging information, searching for information and transmitting information.

Latest news from Nature journals 20 February 2012

Heavy ion beams produced by the RIKEN Ring Cyclotron at the RI Beam Factory have played a key part in the alcoholic beverage-brewing process.

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is pleased to have received a set of five special sculptures titled "Vision" from renowned sculptor Professor Norman Ko Wah-man as a gift for its 75th anniversary.

A theory that accurately describes the properties of relativistic electron vortex beams will impact applications such as electron microscopy

By piecing together the interactions between a pair of proteins involved in colorectal cancer, researchers may have identified suitable targets for drug development

Development of a theoretical framework for interpreting the results of subatomic-particle collisions could provide insight into proton composition

Computer simulations show how key properties of nanowires change as the diameter increases

A novel link between optical fibers and nanometer-scale silicon structures could aid the development of integrated optical circuits

Reduced graphene oxide decorated with metallic nanoparticles shows high potential for gas detection

Developing-world scientists at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Latest news from Nature 16/02/2012