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18 Mar 2011
Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
KUCHING: To further equip the Faculty of Applied and Creative Arts to a higher level, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) and Aizo Digitalworks at the university.
17 Mar 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers - Climate science: Carbon cycle changes during global warming; Physics: Towards a silicon quantum memory; Physics: Stripes and the hour-glass magnetic spectrum in high-Tc superconductors; Earth science: Quartz control in continental deformation; And finally… Should I stay or should I go and forage?
16 Mar 2011
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
On Friday 18 March, Professor C. H. Woo will give a seminar on 'The Fukushima Nuclear Mishap' at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
16 Mar 2011
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Now, a few days after the Great Tohoku Earthquake that occurred off the North East Coast of Honshu Island, Japan, the damage estimates are emerging. The effectiveness of the warning systems in place and the lessons to learn from the disaster can begin to be seen.
16 Mar 2011
A*STAR I2R
Singapore, 16 March 2011 – The China Wireless Personal Area Network (CWPAN) standards meeting, that has traditionally been held within China for the past five years, will be held in Singapore for the first time.
15 Mar 2011
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
The Foresight Institute in the United States recently announced the award of the Feynman Prize for 2010 to Dr. Masakazu Aono, Director-General of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) of the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS).
15 Mar 2011
RIKEN
Dr. Hideki Hirayama has won an Achievement Award in the 43rd Ichimura Science Awards for his work on the development of high-quality AlGaN-based semiconductor crystals and advanced research on deep-UV LEDs. Dr. Hirayama is the leader of the Terahertz Quantum Device Team at RIKEN Advanced Science Insitute (ASI).
14 Mar 2011
RIKEN
A common industrial magnet exhibits rare and potentially useful qualities when its composition is slightly altered
14 Mar 2011
The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
Postgraduate, postdoctoral, visiting scholar and advanced research fellowships available to scientists from developing countries.
12 Mar 2011
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
First reports indicate that the early warning systems worked and the years of training citizens to respond appropriately yielded results. Yet the losses of life in Sendai, the city most affected by the local tsunami, indicate that more can be done.
10 Mar 2011
RIKEN
Researchers at the RIKEN Plant Science Center (PSC) and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) have identified a novel transcription factor controlling how plants dedifferentiate cells in response to wounding.
09 Mar 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Enables Smaller, Faster, Lighter and More Thermally-efficient Multi-chip Modules for High Performance Wireless Applications
09 Mar 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Singapore, 9 March 2011 - Global experts in nanoformulation will be gathering in Singapore for the first time to exchange ideas and foster collaborations with international partners in NanoFormulation2011, the 2nd of three international events organised under an EU-funded programme called InForm (Integrating Nanomaterials in Formulations).
09 Mar 2011
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Department of Computing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has organized a Hong Kong Air Cargo Exchange 2011 in collaboration with DHL Global Forwarding, Hongkong Association of Freight Forwarding And logistics (HAFFA), and Hong Kong R&D Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management Enabling Technologies (LSCM).
04 Mar 2011
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is proud to announce today (4 March) the opening of the expanded Samsung Digital Lab for Hospitality Technology and the new premises for its School of Hotel and Tourism Management (SHTM) in the former site of staff quarters in Tsimshatsui East.
04 Mar 2011
RIKEN
Calculations can now predict when and how spins of electrons and ions arrange in one-dimensional multiferroic materials
04 Mar 2011
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
Sulaiman Mohd Dom of the Faculty of Health Sciences, Universiti Teknologi MARA has created "MyRabbitBurrow" to calm rabbits in the lab.
03 Mar 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
The rapid development of computational tools is shedding light on new genetic and molecular studies, but it is also creating headaches for the scientists involved in this research.
03 Mar 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
The patterning of templates using ultraviolet light is a promising new method for assembling transparent microwire networks
03 Mar 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Researchers have developed a tunable, low-cost laser device that could help advance fiber-optic communications
03 Mar 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
Short pulses of laser light can crystallize amorphous silicon and create a nanostructured surface texture ideal for solar-cell applications
03 Mar 2011
A*STAR I2R
30 international experts gather for workshop organized jointly by the US Board on Global Science and Technology and Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research
02 Mar 2011
Nature Publishing Group
In Nature China this week - Immunology: Allergy control; Medical biology: To my heart's keeper; Organic chemistry: Come together; Plant genomics: Soy story; Metals: Strong and stretchy; Solid-state physics: Small vibrations, big applications.
01 Mar 2011
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
The global biofuels market is worth US$240B by 2020 according to Pike Research Cleantech Market Intelligence (2009). The conference is a platform to discuss the next generation of biofuels, algal biofuels and cover opportunities and challenges of building a biofuels industry.
27 Feb 2011
Nature Publishing Group
Summaries of newsworthy papers - Chemical Biology: Biofuels by bugs; Geoscience: Weakness in the San Andreas Fault
25 Feb 2011
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Nagoya University in Japan and Aalto University in Finland jointly announced on February 7, 2011 that researchers of the two universities succeeded to make high-performance carbon nanotube (CNT) integrated circuits on flexible plastic substrate.
25 Feb 2011
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
National Institute for Material Science, Japan Science and Technology Agency and University of Tsukuba announced on February 4, 2011 that they succeeded in detecting nondestructively dynamic behaviors of doped impurities in Si nanowires (Si NWs) coated by SiO2 to make surrounding gate field-effect transistors.
25 Feb 2011
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
A specific way of visualizing specimen surfaces at high sensitivity is to use a cathode lens (CL) mode in the SEM. The CL is a zero working distance electrostatic lens with the negatively biased specimen serving as the cathode and the earthed scintillator of the detector as the anode of the CL.
25 Feb 2011
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Kyoto University and University of Illinois announced on 14th January 2011 that they have succeeded in observing half-height magnetization steps in strontium ruthenium oxide (Sr2RuO4).
25 Feb 2011
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
Entanglement is the basis of quantum computing. Although spin ensembles, such as those used in liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance have been examined, the results contain no entanglement and ultimately constitute classical simulations of quantum algorithms.
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