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29 Jul 2011
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Scientists and peasants combine traditional farming techniques and cutting-edge research to grow food sustainably in the high Andes, where the ecology is rapidly changing.
28 Jul 2011
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
A joint research group of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, NIMS, and Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles succeeded in developing a new inorganic device named "synapse device"
27 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Fossils: The last straw for the first bird?; Planetary science:; Earth's Trojan companion; Neuroscience: Bringing back memory; Neuroscience: Tipping the balance; Solar physics: Wave power; Climate change: Substantial carbon release from burning Arctic tundra and more
27 Jul 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
The Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint (ICON), which is helmed by the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), a research institute of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), is ready to put roll-to-roll nanoimprint manufacturing to the test.
24 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Neuroscience: Making cocaine less palatable; Climate Change: When to move species; Climate Change: Pollutants from the past ; Geoscience: Rare lunar volcanism
22 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summary of news: Regulating research at the animal-human interface (AOP)
22 Jul 2011
RIKEN
Researchers at the SPring-8 Photon Science Research Division are developing a range of imaging tools to reveal the remarkable mechanism of bacterial locomotion
21 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Genetics: That’s not my cup of tea; Evolution: How spiders make all-weather ‘superglue’
21 Jul 2011
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
The deadline to receive nominations for the 2011 Ernesto Illy Trieste Science Prize has been extended to 31 July. This year's prize will be given in the field of materials science.
20 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summary of News: Genetics: The changing landscape of recombination
20 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Genomics: DNA sequencing technique is cheap as chips; Comment: Freeze the footprint of food; Neuroscience: Humans, the robust sharers; Microbiology: Lethal secret of bacterial secretion; Battle of the sexes
19 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: A new combo for chemo; Absorbing low-cost CO2 capture; Building an insect colony; Polo-like kinase 1 inhibitors safe in the mouse; Ranking information in a complex network
19 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summary of news: Effects of maternal stress on later life
19 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy articles: Sociology: How New York Beat Crime; Neuroscience: How to Build a Better Learner; Science Agenda: We Need Excellent Science Teachers ; Forum: How to Develop New Drugs of Mental Illnesses ; Human Origins: The Evolution of Grandparents
19 Jul 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Researchers from A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) have developed a lateral silicon-based drug screening tool that has demonstrated simultaneous capture of 12 individual cells – 12 times higher throughput than conventional patch clamping.
18 Jul 2011
Toyohashi University of Technology
This conference provides an ‘interdisciplinary-platform’ to enhance mutual understanding between scientists, engineers, policy makers, and experts from a wide spectrum of pure and applied sciences in order to resolve the daunting global issues facing mankind
17 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Materials: Imaging bacterial infections; Geoscience: Earth’s heat flux from radioactive decay; Chemical Biology: Inactivating Ras; Immunology: Assembling the turn-off valve; Chemical Biology: A new channel for Polo delocalization; Climate Change: Conflict of interest in IPCC assessment reports
15 Jul 2011
RIKEN
Sighting a theoretical exotic particle may become possible thanks to recently developed mathematical simulations
15 Jul 2011
RIKEN
Zinc-transporting protein complexes are found unexpectedly to steer the maturation of an essential enzyme
14 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summary of news: Climate science: Explaining Antarctic ozone hole anomalies
13 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Biology: Low-energy approach to fibrillation; Comment: Medical genomics must cover more ethnic groups; Materials science: Electronic ink; Outlook: Alzheimer's disease – prevention rather than cure; Cancer: Selective slaughter and more
12 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: 16 years of regeneration for the newt lens; A new cellular role for TorsinA
12 Jul 2011
Tokyo University of Science
Collaborative research from the Tokyo University of Science shows potential for bioengineered mature organ replacement as a next generation regenerative therapy.
11 Jul 2011
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is collaborating with Southwest Jiaotong University and Dalian Jiaotung University to study the use of its proprietary Advanced Fiber Bragg Grating Sensor (FBG) Systems for monitoring the structural health and safety of the nation’s fast-expanding High-Speed Rail.
11 Jul 2011
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Organized by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and supported by the Government’s Innovation and Technology Commission, the “Forum on Creating Synergy in Innovation and Technology – Shenzhen/Hong Kong Cooperation” was held today (8 July).
10 Jul 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers: Nature: Baked, boiled, mashed…and now sequenced; Immunology: Predicting vaccine efficacy; Neuroscience: D2 autoreceptors are rewarding; Genetics: Variants associated with prostate cancer; Geoscience: Ancient buried landscape beneath the North Atlantic Ocean and more
08 Jul 2011
RIKEN
Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree in a related field of expertise (physical science, medical science, molecular biology, cytobiology, etc.), the experience and achievements stated in our laboratory outline as well as possess team management and research promotion skills. The deadline for application is friday, July 22, 2011 at 17:00(Japan time).
08 Jul 2011
RIKEN
The world’s second X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) recently went online in Japan, hot on the heels of the first, the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US, which began operating in the hard X-ray region in 2009.
08 Jul 2011
RIKEN
The strong coupling between electrical currents and magnetization in topological insulator materials is surprisingly unaffected by impurities
Giants in history
Turkish astrophysicist Dilhan Eryurt (29 November 1926 – 13 September 2012) conducted research on how the sun affects environmental conditions on the moon.
Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie (25 June 1936 – 11 September 2019) was an Indonesian engineer who was President of Indonesia from 1998 to 1999.
Physicist Narinder Singh Kapany (31 October 1926 – 4 December 2020) pioneered the use of optical fibres to transmit images, and founded several optical technology companies. Born in Punjab, India, he worked at a local optical instruments factory before moving to London for PhD studies at Imperial College. There, he devised a flexible fibrescope to convey images along bundles of glass fibres.
Sir Mokshagundam Srinivasa Shastry Vishveshwarayya (15 September 1860 – 14 April 1962) is widely regarded as India’s most outstanding engineer. In a career that spanned almost his entire life, Vishveshwarayya played a pivotal role in several engineering projects, including designing the Krishnarajasagara dam that is still the source of irrigation and drinking water for parts of Karnataka today.
Fazlur Rahman Khan (3 April 1929 – 27 March 1982) was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect who invented the tube principle, which formed the basis for modern skyscraper design.
A Japanese surgeon, Tetsuzo Akutsu (20 August 1922 – 9 August 2007) built the first artificial heart capable of keeping an animal alive.
Lin Lanying (7 February 1918 – 4 March 2003) was a Chinese material engineer remembered for her contributions to the field of semiconductor and aerospace materials. Lanying was born into a family who did not believe in educating girls and she was not allowed to go to school.
Gregorio Y. Zara (8 March 1902 – 15 October 1978) was a Filipino engineer and physicist best remembered for inventing the first two-way video telephone. Zara’s video telephone invention enabled the caller and recipient to see each other while conversing, laying the foundation for video-conferencing