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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
29 Aug 2016
A research team in South Korea has developed a continuous roll-processing technology that transfers and packages flexible large-scale integrated circuits (LSI).
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
26 Aug 2016
Partnership to bring significant benefits to our global society.
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Asia Research News
25 Aug 2016
MIT Technology Review calls for nominations from innovators in Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Taiwan for the regional 2017 Innovators Under 35 (TR35) list.
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Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
25 Aug 2016
Soil conditioners called superabsorbent polymers have the potential to reduce irrigation needs for agricultural crops by storing water and nutrients and then releasing them in drought conditions, according to a recent paper published in the Pertanika Journal of Tropical Agricultural Science (JTAS).
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National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
25 Aug 2016
Researchers in Japan and US jointly developed a chemical sensing material whose electrical conductivity dramatically increases when exposed to toxic gases.
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National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
25 Aug 2016
They Reduce Friction by about One-Third. Playing a Vital Role in a Newly Developed Small Jet Engine Generator for Emergency Use
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The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
25 Aug 2016
A decision-making tool helps producers of pharmaceutical and other valuable chemicals make the leap to an entirely new way of manufacturing.
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The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
25 Aug 2016
A coating that blocks 90 per cent of the heat from sunlight could be used to develop smart windows
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Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
25 Aug 2016
A new class of battery seperator has been engineered by a team of researchers, affiliated with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), which is expected to bring unprecedented benefits to battery performance.
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25 Aug 2016
Hiroshima University, Japan, has announced its fellowship opening for a junior science communicator.
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Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
25 Aug 2016
Prof. Sam H. Noh (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering) at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has been appointed by the world's largest computing society as the next Editor-in-Chief of the ACM ToS Journal.
Crab-eating monkey embryo
Kyoto University
25 Aug 2016
New research shows that certain primate stem cells have pluripotency superior to some types derived from mice. The study, published in Nature, maps how pluripotency differs among mice, monkeys, and humans, and illustrates for the first time a developmental counterpart of primate stem cells.
Prof. Cheol-Min Park
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
25 Aug 2016
The work by Prof. Cheol-Min Park (School of Natural Science) at Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) has been selected to appear on the front cover of the prestigious journal, ChemComm.
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Hokkaido University
24 Aug 2016
An international research team suggests the endangered Cuban solenodon evolved after the extinction of dinosaurs.
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National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
23 Aug 2016
Research groups in Japan and United States jointly developed an anode material for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries by forming nanoparticles made of silicon-metal composites on metal substrates.
UNIST and UCSD signs MoU
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
23 Aug 2016
Partnership to bring significant benefits to our global society.
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Tohoku University
23 Aug 2016
The theory of thermoelectricity for low dimensional semiconductors has recently been updated by Nguyen et al (2016) from Tohoku University, 23 years after it was first published by Hicks and Dresselhaus.
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
23 Aug 2016
A project which was funded by Save The Children Hong Kong has revealed that parents from families with low monthly household income are more likely to have higher parental stress and lower parental self-efficacy.
Drinking green tea to prevent artery explosion
Kyoto University
23 Aug 2016
Green tea could prevent a deadly condition in the body's main artery. A Kyoto University team has found that abdominal aortic aneurysm -- a condition in which the main artery becomes overstretched and bloated -- developed less frequently in rats that drank green tea polyphenol, a major component of green tea.
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Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
23 Aug 2016
Three faculty researchers of Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea, were among the most influential scientists in MSE, according to MSE Supplies.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
22 Aug 2016
High-resolution modeling improves understanding of dust flow from Africa across the Red Sea toward the Arabian Peninsula.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
22 Aug 2016
Surface deformation cause by magma rising within the crust may in turn have prevented a volcanic eruption in Saudi Arabia.
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Tohoku University
22 Aug 2016
Researchers at Tohoku University and NEC Corporation have discovered a new technique for compressing the computations of encryption and decryption operations known as Galois field arithmetic operations.
Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
22 Aug 2016
The National University of Malaysia and Indonesia's Dirosat Islamiyah Al-Amien Institute have recently signed an Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on research areas in Islamic studies.
Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
22 Aug 2016
KUALA LUMPUR, August 12 – The Malaysian Research Institute of Ageing (IPPM) and Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the International Institute of Ageing, United Nations - Malta (INIA) to pioneer a collaborative multidisciplinary research on ageing.
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Hokkaido University
19 Aug 2016
A team from Hokkaido University and Ehime University has discovered that Hawaiian drosophilids (fruit flies) had plural ancestors that hailed from continents, refuting the “single Hawaiian origin” hypothesis.
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Kyoto University
19 Aug 2016
Male Japanese termites form homosexual couples when no females are around -- and when the chance arises, they take over a heterosexual couple's nest and kill the male so that one of them can mate with the now spouseless female. The study supports a theory that homosexual couplings in invertebrates have evolutionary advantages.
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Hokkaido University
18 Aug 2016
Researchers from Hokkaido University have discovered familial differences in the earliest vocal babblings of juvenile songbirds, suggesting a possible genetic basis for the variations.
Tohoku University
18 Aug 2016
The Pacific coast of the Tohoku region has been struck by four large tsunamis in just over a century - in 1896, 1933, 1960 and 2011.
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The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
18 Aug 2016
Professor Dominic Foo, Professor of Process Design and Integration in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) received the Top Research Scientists Malaysia (TRSM) Award on 15 August 2016.