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Singapore, 7th December 2011 – Dr. Zhang Rui, a research scientist at A*STAR’s Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R), has won the “6th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Best Young Researcher Award” for his outstanding participation and active involvement in IEEE ComSoc publications and conferences in the last 3 years.

The A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Tezzaron Semiconductor, a leader in 3D-ICs, have today announced a research collaboration agreement to develop and exploit advanced Through Silicon Interposer (TSI) technology.

Life Sciences, environment and engineering News from the Tokyo Science and Innovation Section 5 December 2011

In a bid to promote the best practices of knowledge management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has introduced through its Knowledge Management Research Centre (KMRC) the Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Award to the Chinese mainland.

Japanese researchers from the Toyohashi University of Technology develop an online search tool for rapidly detecting spoken words in speech and video on the internet

Latest news from Nature Methods 4 December 2011

School enrollment and nutrition also suffer, new study says

Tokyo Institute of Technology researchers uncover the physical interactions between water and minerals that might explain why some fault lines slip without causing catastrophic earthquakes.

Rice consumers worldwide can now look forward to eating “green” rice with the launch of an initiative that will set environmentally sustainable and socially responsible rice production management standards.

Real-time x-ray measurements of remarkable rare-earth/transition metal clusters expose the secrets of storing and releasing hydrogen gas

A single sugar molecule plays an outsized role in helping a glucose-transporting protein respond promptly to insulin signals

Based on non-linear optical effects, imaging with light has reached atomic precision in the most precise microscope ever built.

More than 20 years after the introduction of aquaculture, fish farmers are thriving in Kulekhani, Nepal.

A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) and Peking University (PKU) have announced to jointly collaborate in research interests spanning areas in emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies such as RRAM.

Latest news from Nature 30 November 2011

The Tokyo Institute of Technology Bulletin highlights cutting edge research projects being conducted at the University.

Sarawak has proposed a study to look into reducing infrastructure cost due to the peat soil in the areas under the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (Score).

The Centre for Technology Transer and Consultancy (CTTC), the business arm of Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas), introduced its newly re-designed corporate video yesterday.

Researchers at the National Institute for Materials Science, in collaboration with members of the Magnetic Materials Unit, have demonstrated a scissors-type trilayer magnetoresistance device that is promising for narrow readers of ultra-high density hard disk drives (HDD).

An exhibition titled "Supporting Ageing with Design: Process and Results of the i•do workshops 2009-2011" is being held on the campus of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) from now until 9 December 2011.

Prof. Dr. Saowapa Angsupanich and a research team from the Department of Aquatic Science, Faculty of Natural Resources, Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, have discovered 2 new species of shrimp in Songkhla Lake soil sediment.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) has made history once again by winning 14 medals in three international exhibitions held recently in Germany and Poland.

A tiny generator built from silicon nanowires can harness energy from the surplus heat produced in electronic circuits

Singapore, 28 November 2011

Short, capped single-walled carbon nanotubes may serve as ideal probing tips to study friction, lubrication and wear at the microscale

Nanoparticles offer insights into interactions between single-stranded DNA and their binding proteins

From materials to neuroscience and much much more - latest news from the Nature journals 27 November 2011

Copper–carbene catalysts reveal the critical interactions needed to turn waste carbon dioxide into chemical feedstocks

Research on the mechanism that controls neuron firing in the rat brain reveals a surprise for neuroscientists

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