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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

Latest news from Nature Reviews Cancer

Brain imaging experiments uncouple two apparently intimately connected mental processes

Latest News from Nature 23 November 2011

NIMS and the University of Queensland Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, the Dalian Polytechnic University and the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics clarified for the first time the cluster structure which has an extremely large effect on the long-term stability of solid oxide fuel cells for independent distributed power generation.

A research group at the NIMS International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) has proved that the electrical resistance of a metal single atomic layer on a silicon surface becomes zero by superconductivity.

Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) is to start producing biofuel extracted from palm 'sago' (stem pith) waste - the first of its kind - through its Sago Research Centre.

SIMTech established Singapore’s first Large Area Processing Research Programme as it sets sights on creating a new industry to produce innovative large area printed electronics and functional films that are cost-effective, energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.

Why don't woodpeckers injure themselves? Researchers at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Beihang University in Beijing have been investigating...

The development of electrolytic in-process dressing grinding more than 20 years ago set in motion a revolution in nanoprecision machining that continues today

Minor differences in receptor structures account for variation in the selectivity and side effects of antihistamine drugs

Molecular ‘handles’ that allow on-demand growth of thick columnar films make enhanced liquid crystal devices viable.

The latest news in aquaculture research from the WorldFish Centre

Latest news from Nature 17 November 2011

A numerical model could improve the performance of cell-sorting devices by predicting the paths taken by deformable cells