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15 Dec 2010
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Highly effective yet simple BioSand Filters are providing clean water in more than 300,000 homes around the world.
08 Dec 2010
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers - Cancer: Getting to the root of brain cancer; Climate: Meltwater variability drives ice-sheet acceleration; Astronomy: Probing the early Universe with a single dipole antenna; And finally… Resisting everything except reward cues
06 Dec 2010
RIKEN
Tokyo, 6 Dec - Researchers at RIKEN, Japan’s flagship research institution, have successfully devised the world’s first experimental technique for measuring ground-state hyperfine transitions of antihydrogen.
06 Dec 2010
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
US, European and Japanese companies join A*STAR’s Industrial Consortium On Nanoimprint (ICON) to engineer marine life-inspired anti-microbial surfaces for use on ships, lenses and even medical devices.
05 Dec 2010
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
The 1st issue of Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology 2011 has just been published ahead of time.
03 Dec 2010
RIKEN
‘Green’ catalysts transform carbon dioxide gas into valuable building blocks for organic synthesis
01 Dec 2010
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) won five (5) gold medals and two (2) special awards through an entry of nine (9) innovation products at the recent World Exhibition on Innovation, Research and New Technologies (INNOVA 2010) in Brussels, Belgium. The other four (4) of UNIMAS showcased products managed to grab one (1) silver medal each.
29 Nov 2010
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
The STAM article titled “Challenges and Breakthroughs in Recent Research on Self-Assembly,” which was published in March 2008 issue by Dr. Ariga, MANA PI, and Dr. Hill, MANA Scientist, et al., was ranked No. 1 Hot Paper in Materials Science by the Essential Science Indicators on November 1 (provided by Thomson Reuters).
26 Nov 2010
RIKEN
Frame-by-frame observations of the ionization of argon atoms under extremely bright and energetic illumination could prove a boon to research
20 Nov 2010
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
A*STAR’s Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE) partners 10 EU research organisations to work on the groundbreaking €10 million ATMOL project that lays the foundation for creating and testing a molecular-sized processor chip.
19 Nov 2010
RIKEN
Bulky molecules help trap boron compounds into a never-before-seen structural arrangement
16 Nov 2010
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Team from Institute for Infocomm Research (I2R) emerges first in Known-item-Search (KIS) task at National Institute and Standards Technology TRECVID Conference 2010
15 Nov 2010
RIKEN
Tokyo, 15 Nov - New findings by researchers at RIKEN and the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) have shed light on the remarkable electrochemical response properties of an elusive class of molecular helix structures, charting a new path in the design of molecular machines and devices.
13 Nov 2010
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
KUALA LUMPUR, 9 Nov – Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) and University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) Austria collaborate in the field of research focusing on natural resources and life sciences.
13 Nov 2010
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
SERDANG, 9 Nov - Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) inked a collaboration with Sichuan Zhonghan Solar Power (SZSP) in a research to measure the performance of the three types of photovoltaic systems (PV) and review the suitability of the system to generate electrical energy optimally according to the weather conditions in the country.
12 Nov 2010
RIKEN
“We hope our partnership in green chemistry and nanotechology will lead to results that will make significant contributions to resolving pressing global issues and pave the way for a sustainable society.” - RIKEN executive director Yoshiharu Doi
10 Nov 2010
Toyohashi University of Technology
Toyohashi Tech will hold an international symposium on 15th and 16th November 2010 to celebrate the launch of its Electronics-Inspired Interdisciplinary Research Institute (EIIRIS). The symposia will be streamed live via the internet.
09 Nov 2010
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
This agreement will not only reinforce the existing collaboration between UCL and NIMS in the field of computational materials science, organic nanomaterials and photocatalytic materials, but also envisage new collaboration and exchange of researchers.
09 Nov 2010
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Tokyo, 8 Oct - The Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), India, and the Quantum Beam Center, NIMS, signed a MOU on collaborative research for "the Fabrication and modification of nano-materials by ion beams"
09 Nov 2010
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
This dramatic improvement in thermal agglomeration resistance opens the road to a large reduction in the amount of rare metals used in exhaust gas purification technologies.
09 Nov 2010
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Penang, 9 Nov - In a press conference today, USM's Underwater Robotics Research Group, presented some of their latest systems.
08 Nov 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
Working in collaboration with industry partners, researchers of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have successfully developed a Solar-powered Air-conditioning System for vehicles and completed a series of testing on the road.
08 Nov 2010
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Tokyo, 8 Nov - C.N.R. Rao and colleagues have published a timely review analyzing the correlation of synthesis methods and physical properties of single-layer and few-layered graphene flakes. The paper was published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.
05 Nov 2010
RIKEN
Tokyo, 5 Nov - A new analysis technique for the design and optimization of beam optics has successfully been used to model the group behavior of electron beams over a linear accelerator, paving the way for its use at linear accelerator based light source facilities around the world.
04 Nov 2010
RIKEN
Tokyo, 4 Nov- Researchers at RIKEN have successfully developed a revolutionary new polymer film that changes shape upon irradiation with UV and visible light.
03 Nov 2010
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore, 3 November 2010: The National Metrology Centre (NMC) of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA) have jointly set up a national Metrology in Chemistry (MiC) infrastructure.
03 Nov 2010
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Mohamad Hafiz Mamat’s winning innovation is a UV photoconductive sensor, the Grand Prize won in the Innovation and Design 2010 – Special Edition, 12 – 14 October 2010 at the Sri Budiman Hall, Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam
28 Oct 2010
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore, 28 Oct - Total of S$17.5 million committed to date for 10 research projects that will redefine communications and safety, energy efficiency, as well as materials and electronics in future transportation
25 Oct 2010
Toyohashi University of Technology
Shigeki Nakauchi at Toyohashi Tech in collaboration with Kanebo Cosmetics Inc., Japan, has developed a technology enabling the quantification and visualization of the ‘quality’ and finish of foundation applied to the face.
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