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04 Apr 2007
Nature Publishing Group
The relics of St Joan of Arc are not the remains of the fifteenth-century French heroine after all, according to a News Exclusive in Nature this week. European experts who have analysed the sacred scraps say the relics are a forgery, made from the remains of an Egyptian mummy.
02 Apr 2007
International Rice Research Institute
Efforts by Indonesia to avoid food shortages by increasing its rice production have received an important boost with the signing of a new agreement to help the nation’s millions of poor rice farmers with new technologies.
01 Apr 2007
Asia Research News
The Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF) is pleased to announce that the registration phase for the Competition Made in the Arab World (MIA) is extended to April 15th 2007
30 Mar 2007
Keio University
As a part of the 150th Anniversary project, Keio University opens the Graduate School of Media Design and the Graduate School of System Design and Management in 2008. Both of the new graduate schools plan to nurture people who are capable of leading all areas of the digital media as well as designing and managing large-scale and complex projects.
23 Mar 2007
Keio University
Scientists at Keio University report a first-of-a-kind quantitative picture of molecular components of the common intestinal bacterium E. coli. The group studied this unicellular organism at an unprecedented depth to reveal the remarkable overall robustness of its metabolic network to gene deletion and changes in growth conditions.
19 Mar 2007
Keio University
Keio University’s Center for Research Promotion held a symposium entitled “Toward Rapid Medical Applications of Basic Research in the Life Sciences, the panel discussion focused on what should be done by the government, academia, and industry to make translational research an entrenched part of the nation.
06 Mar 2007
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
ICARDA and its partners in Afghanistan are promoting mint and mint products as a profitable alternative to cultivation of opium poppies. Research focuses on mint production technologies, processing methods, value addition, training, and development of markets and trade capacity – and mint cultivation is expanding rapidly.
28 Feb 2007
Tokyo University of Science
A research group headed by Takashi Tsuji of the Tissue Engineering Research Center has developed a new cell manipulation technology whereby organ germs are artificially recombined from single cells. This technology has the potential for application to artificial "tooth regeneration" and "hair regeneration".
23 Feb 2007
University of the Philippines Diliman
The National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines (UP) has miniaturized the Oblation (UP’s trademark) as part of its project on micro-fabrication of functional micro-devices using non-linear multi-photon absorption. The research project aims to use micro-structures as components in an integrated miniaturized laboratory.
21 Feb 2007
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
In the last quarter of 2006, Universiti Teknologi Mara took part in exhibition in Brussels, Nuremberg, London and Seoul and won numerous award. These award winning research projects are listed here.
20 Feb 2007
Asia Research News
This competition aims at orienting Research and Development activities in Arab universities to tackle real needs and problems, and foster business-oriented results.
20 Feb 2007
University of the Philippines Diliman
Research on detection of microscopic defects in integrated circuits at the National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines has been selected by Optical Society of America as one of the most exciting to emerge in 2006.
12 Feb 2007
Tokyo University of Science
The Nano Science Technology Research Center was selected as an Open Research Center Project of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport, Science, and Technology in 2002. Since then, it has been engaged in pioneering nanoscience and technology projects.
12 Feb 2007
Universiti Sains Malaysia
Papermaking in Malaysia is essentially based on recycled fibers. One of the major issues faced by mills using recycled fibers is the diminishing strength of papers with recycling. Palmcel introduces a new class of biodegradable chemicals derived from oil palm residues which can augment both the dry and wet strength of papers.
05 Feb 2007
Nature Publishing Group
Fifteen MacmillanScience titles are now available as e-books to browse and buy from February 2007 at www.macmillansciencebookstore.com.
05 Feb 2007
NSW Department of Primary Industries
Oysters treated with high pressure water look and taste better, according to consumers who participated in a NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) research project.
05 Feb 2007
NSW Department of Primary Industries
NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) scientists have identified a major new source of wheat germplasm tolerant of aluminium toxicity, paving the way for the breeding of new bread wheat varieties able to grow in acid soils.
05 Feb 2007
NSW Department of Primary Industries
A ‘dig’ at a former rubbish tip in Sydney is providing scientists with the clues needed to determine the level of greenhouse emissions from wood products in landfills.
04 Feb 2007
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is an international research center with staff from 45 countries. We have an opening for Head of Program Facilitation Unit, CGIAR Program for Central Asia and the Caucasus; and Regional Coordinator of ICARDA-CAC Program, based in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
04 Feb 2007
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) is a non-profit international research center with staff from 45 countries. We have an opening for a Barley Breeder, to be based at the headquarters in Aleppo, Syria
31 Jan 2007
Nature Publishing Group
Leading weapons experts and security think-tanks have accused the British government of withholding information needed to properly evaluate a multibillion-pound proposal to renew the country's fleet of nuclear submarines, Nature reports this week.
31 Jan 2007
Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)
The technologies include a novel oral drug delivery system, infrared tomography for solid floe monitoring, textile thermal tester machine, roselle chewable tablets, new technique for transdermal drug delivery system and many more. The Seoul International Invention Fair is the largest Bi-Annual Invention Fair in Asia.
24 Jan 2007
Asia Research News
These include home hydroponics, converting feathers into fish meal, biogas from pineapple peels, increasing nutritional content of shellfish, supply & development of modern proteins, RFID reader modules for retail businesses, melt & recycle waste styropor in cooking oil and glass ceramic dental bone implant from Pinatubo volcanic ejecta & bone ash.
17 Jan 2007
NAM S&T Centre
Amongst the recommendations are on sharing of information and examples of best practise, investment in mapping and forecasting, protection of cultural and natural heritage, strategic and life-line infrastructure endangered by natural disasters, restraint in producing unvalidated maps and higher priority for early warning systems.
11 Jan 2007
University of the Philippines Diliman
The accurate forecast of a cyclone’s track and intensity is of great importance to lessen the damage it may cause. Not all countries are financially capable to use global circulation models (GCM) in forecasting. Thus, an economical solution for improving the resolution of cyclone forecast is to nest a regional climate model within a global model.
11 Jan 2007
University of the Philippines Diliman
Holograms have so far been considered as a contraption of the future. However, many studies today have made holography a reality. A potential holographic light source is the hydrogen Raman Shifter, a multi-wavelength pulsed coherent light source that is both compact and inexpensive.
10 Jan 2007
Nature Publishing Group
Scientists wishing to store spent nuclear fuels inside specially designed ceramics may need to think again. The synthetic materials may not be as durable as was previously thought. Researchers use a new approach to determine nitrogen fixation rates in the world's oceans - with surprising results.
31 Dec 2006
Universiti Sains Malaysia
jNETworm is a multi-platform application that continuously monitor and pinpoint sources of worms in a LAN, jNetworm is developed using Java and Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) Technologies and thus it does not depend on any specific platform.
29 Dec 2006
Nature Publishing Group
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is delighted to announce the launch of Nature Photonics, a new research journal dedicated to the best photonics research from academia and industry. Nature Photonics is NPG’s first research journal to have its core editorial base in the Asia-Pacific region.
24 Dec 2006
Nature Publishing Group
Papers of interest from Nature Publishing Group’s new research journal Nature Photonics, including: Caged light, Optical buffer on a silicon chip, Blue microdisk lasers hit room temperature, Optical devices lose their sensitive side and Follow the light.
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