2016
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2016 Magazine articles
Exhausting our green shipping optionsScience, Technology24 Jun 2016The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)Scientists in Singapore have developed a revolutionary emissions abatement system that removes pollutants from exhaust gas to help the international shipping industry meet ambitious emissions targets. |
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Turning sewage sludge into concreteTechnology24 Jun 2016Asia Research NewsResearchers in Malaysia have discovered that dried sewage sludge could be recycled by adding it to cement to make concrete. |
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Chaining up to move a hefty mealScience24 Jun 2016Asia Research NewsResearchers have documented the first known instance of insects moving prey by forming chains. |
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Common chemical highly toxic to blood cell precursorsMedicine, Science23 Jun 2016Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKMMalaysian scientists have provided evidence that a widely used chemical is more toxic to certain blood cell precursors in the bone marrow than to others. |
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Exploring the prehistory of Palawan Island through human remainsCulture, People23 Jun 2016Asia Research NewsResearchers are excavating human remains from caves in Palawan Island in the Philippines to learn more about the diversity of burial and other cultural practices over the past 10,000 years.
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Exploring the global flow of digital labourPeople22 Jun 2016International Development Research Centre (IDRC)An international research team is investigating who benefits from the globalisation of online work, hoping to identify how government policies can help to avoid the creation of digital sweatshops. |
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Computer models show park microclimates improve city lifePeople, Technology22 Jun 2016Asia Research NewsComputer modelling based on microclimate data from a Malaysian public park has shown how adding trees and grass can improve living conditions in dense city cores. |
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Green fluorescent protein a potential scaffold for protein assemblyScience, Medicine21 Jun 2016Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)Scientists in Korea have developed a protein-scaffolding tool that paves the way for the assembly of diverse proteins with defined structures and functions.
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Philippine fishing and its links to Japan’s “sea women”Culture, People21 Jun 2016Asia Research NewsA researcher at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) is studying the ancient Japanese culture of “ama” – women who traditionally free-dive in the sea in search of seaweed, lobsters, snail “turbo” shells and, in the distant past, pearls – and its potential connections to Philippine maritime cultures. |
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Gold dust to control stem cellsMedicine, Science17 Jun 2016National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)Researchers in Japan have shown that modified gold nanoparticles can be used to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone. |