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The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
24 Jun 2016
Scientists in Singapore have developed a revolutionary emissions abatement system that removes pollutants from exhaust gas to help the international shipping industry meet ambitious emissions targets.
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Asia Research News
24 Jun 2016
Researchers in Malaysia have discovered that dried sewage sludge could be recycled by adding it to cement to make concrete.
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Asia Research News
24 Jun 2016
Researchers have documented the first known instance of insects moving prey by forming chains.
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Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM)
24 Jun 2016
A researcher in Malaysia has developed an adjustable tables where the front portion can be tilted for easy reading and writing in order to minimize the ergonomic health risks among school children.
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Nagoya University
24 Jun 2016
International researchers centered at Nagoya University use a highly sensitive technique to identify significantly more DNA sequence repeats in patients with schizophrenia than in control individuals, and outline a possible link between genome instability and disease.
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
23 Jun 2016
Biology has inspired new ways to harvest and collect water.
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King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
23 Jun 2016
A statistical model that accurately describes rainfall at both extremes opens the way for more reliable predictions of flood and drought risk.
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Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Centre for Collaborative Innovation (CCI)-UKM
23 Jun 2016
Malaysian scientists have provided evidence that a widely used chemical is more toxic to certain blood cell precursors in the bone marrow than to others.
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Asia Research News
23 Jun 2016
Researchers are excavating human remains from caves in Palawan Island in the Philippines to learn more about the diversity of burial and other cultural practices over the past 10,000 years.
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Hokkaido University
23 Jun 2016
Scientists at Hokkaido University have developed a device that employs both magnetic and electronic signals, which could provide twice the storage capacity of conventional memory devices, such as USB flash drives.
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The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)
23 Jun 2016
Findings could open up possibilities for more targeted therapies for the disease.
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University of Malaya
23 Jun 2016
A comparative study by University of Malaya researchers highlighted the prominence of environmental aspects in building assessment themes in Malaysia. The study has been published in the journal Ecological Indicators, Volume 69.
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International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
22 Jun 2016
An international research team is investigating who benefits from the globalisation of online work, hoping to identify how government policies can help to avoid the creation of digital sweatshops.
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Asia Research News
22 Jun 2016
Computer modelling based on microclimate data from a Malaysian public park has shown how adding trees and grass can improve living conditions in dense city cores.
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Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU)
22 Jun 2016
A 3D dome theater movie visualizing superstring theory and supervised by a Kavli IPMU researcher has received the Best Educational Production Award, it was announced at the International Planetarium Society (IPS) Fulldome Festival Brno 2016 in the Czech Republic on June 17.
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
21 Jun 2016
Scientists in Korea have developed a protein-scaffolding tool that paves the way for the assembly of diverse proteins with defined structures and functions.
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
21 Jun 2016
Innovative chemistry has produced synthetic membranes with improved properties for industry, research and biomedicine.
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Asia Research News
21 Jun 2016
A researcher at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UPD) is studying the ancient Japanese culture of “ama” – women who traditionally free-dive in the sea in search of seaweed, lobsters, snail “turbo” shells and, in the distant past, pearls – and its potential connections to Philippine maritime cultures.
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Hokkaido University
20 Jun 2016
Scientists have found a way to simultaneously monitor the switching on and off of circadian “clock” genes and their effects on mouse behaviour in real-time.
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Hokkaido University
20 Jun 2016
A receptor, first known for its role in mediating the harmful effects of the environmental pollutant dioxin in our body, is now understood to play other important roles in modulating the innate immune response.
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Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
17 Jun 2016
KAIST researchers have sequenced the whole genome of Clostridium tyrobutyricum, which has a higher tolerance to toxic chemicals, such as 1-butanol, compared to other clostridial bacterial strains.
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National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS)
17 Jun 2016
Researchers in Japan have shown that modified gold nanoparticles can be used to control the differentiation of stem cells into bone.
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Hokkaido University
17 Jun 2016
Building an innovation ecosystem to expand to other regions.
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Tohoku University
17 Jun 2016
The result also validates the methodology for single-shot imaging of bio-systems.
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Tohoku University
17 Jun 2016
The research group of Professor Hideo Ohno and Associate Professor Shunsuke Fukami of Tohoku University has demonstrated the sub-nanosecond operation of a nonvolatile magnetic memory device.
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Tohoku University
17 Jun 2016
Researchers at Tohoku University have realized wafer-scale and high yield synthesis of suspended graphene nanoribbons. The unique growth dynamic has been elucidated through comparing experiments, molecular dynamics simulations and theoretical calculations made with researchers from the University of Tokyo and Hokkaido University.
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Tohoku University
17 Jun 2016
Researchers from Osaka University and Tohoku University have developed a novel robot microscope system that automatically tracks a freely moving small animal and manipulates its brain activity with "projection mapping." They've named the system OSaCaBeN or OSB.
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Tohoku University
17 Jun 2016
A research group at Tohoku University's WPI-AIMR has succeeded in finding the origin and the mechanism of ferromagnetism in Mn-doped GaAs. The discovery is significant as it will accelerate the development of the spintronic element.
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Hokkaido University
17 Jun 2016
The junctions between nerve cells responsible for releasing and receiving dopamine in the brain are a surprising mismatch that gives this chemical a strong competitive advantage.
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
16 Jun 2016
Researchers in Hong Kong have developed a system named "Compound eye for high-density 3D imaging".