Peer Reviewed

People never, as assumed by conventional economics, make rational or efficient choices. Far from that, the choices made are irrational and emotional.

The Waseda University Institute of e-Government has released the 2011 Waseda University World e-Government Ranking, marking its seventh consecutive year of monitoring the development of e-Government worldwide.

The exhibition project “Build a Square, Move a Square―A Half Century of Temporary Theatres in Japan―Exhibition”, which started on January 11, is a display looking back at the history of temporary theatres from the 1960s to the present day.

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Physics: A new twist on black-hole detection; Materials: Hydrogen in view.

Texchem Food Sdn. Bhd is committed to providing funding worth RM200,000 to Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for research development on mangrove crabs, a seafood that is very popular both locally and internationally.

Teaching and learning using real corpses (cadavers) is a key component in the USM International Medical Doctor Programme carried out in collaboration with KLE University in Belgaum, Bangalore, India (USM-KLE).

Researchers at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute are harnessing new physical principles in their search for the breakthroughs that will drive the next technological revolution.

Microwave photons can nullify the conductivity of electrons confined to the surface of liquid helium

A template-based coating technique allows the production of gapped nanostructures over large areas

One of the rarest cats in the world, the Bornean bay cat (Catopuma badia) has been recorded in Pulong Tau National Park (PTNP)’s extended areas of Batu Lawi and Long Repung in the state’s northern region.

By CHERYL POO To keep traditional songket weaving alive, Royal Terengganu Songket strives to empower artistically inclined rural young women.

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Genomics: A new era for personal medicine; Cancer: Genomic complexity of prostate cancer; Immunology: Retinoic acid implicated in coeliac disease; Nanotechnology: Programmable nanowire circuits; Physics: Frustrated ferroelectrics.

I²R, a research institute of the A*STAR, has entered into the second phase of a research and development agreement with Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université Joseph Fourier and the National University of Singapore for their joint laboratory in Singapore known as the Image, Pervasive Access Lab.

Researchers in Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for the first time, have succeed in inventing a diagnostic tool to detect the disease, Melioidosis swiftly and accurately.

Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) once again proved its credibility in boosting the aspect of sustainability in its research when it was won the Flextronic Eco Challenge, held in Kuala Lumpur recently and bringing home a cash prize of USD8000.

A new type of composite material with peapod structures can help improve the performance of lithium-ion batteries

A tool to assess the performance of air cargo supply chain operations provides insights into the effects of industry reforms

Solar cells can be made thinner and lighter with the help of aluminum particles

Teoh Sian Hoon of Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), Malaysia, has created software to assist academic writers write literature reviews.

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Genetics: Genetic ancestry correlated with leukemia relapse; Methods: Multicoloured fly brains; Methods: Watching single molecules under flow.

Twin zinc atoms can direct an important organic double-bond-forming reaction with greater efficiency than other methods

Immune cells get switched off by the gradual accumulation of dense clusters of inhibitory proteins

Controlling antihydrogen atoms using two different methods brings physicists closer to answering quantum and cosmic questions

Summaries of newsworthy papers - Biology: Prostate cancer progression; Climate science: Solving the methane question; Comment: Policies needed to protect deep-sea denizens from mining; Physics: Biological imaging with an X-ray laser; Genetics: Plants ‘predict’ infection?; And finally… Once upon a thymus.

By Hélène Mayrand et Edgard Rodriguez In today’s globalized world, exporting is one of the key policy strategies to promote employment and higher wages in developing countries.

By Louise Guénette Three IDRC regional directors retired in the fall of 2010 after heading offices in Cairo, Nairobi, and Singapore. Eglal Rached, Constance Freeman, and Richard Fuchs look back at some significant moments during their careers at IDRC.

With over 2,000 dead and more than 6,500,000 at risk from cholera, urgent measures are being implemented to contain the cholera outbreak in Haiti, which is present in all ten of Haiti's departments.

Once, GDP was the established benchmark of a country’s progress. Now, new and sophisticated indexes offer a more rounded picture of the condition of society — and IDRC is helping develop them.

Discovery of Breakthrough Electrode Formation Method without Accompanying Doping into Si Substrate

Fabrication of the World’s Highest Mobility Organic Crystal Transistor by Simple Process of Solution Dripping and Exposure to Vapor