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International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
12 Jul 2010
Canada’s International Development Research Centre will collaborate with the Next Einstein Initiative as part of a $20 million investment by the Government of Canada in building science and technology capacity in Africa.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
12 Jul 2010
OPINION: Recently, I made a presentation entitled Reinventing Science at the Academy of Sciences Malaysia Inaugural Lectures.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
12 Jul 2010
OPINION: World Environment Day, which is celebrated every June 5, took the theme Biodiversity -- Ecosystems Management and the Green Economy this year.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
12 Jul 2010
OPINION: In a May 30 interview on a weekly public affairs show hosted by journalist and author Fareed Zakaria on CNN, Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates mentioned the need "to reorder the priorities of the innovation system" in making changes in the health­care sector.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
12 Jul 2010
OPINION: It was immensely satisfying to listen to Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad speak on a subject as tricky as "technology-based innovation"...
Universiti Sains Malaysia
12 Jul 2010
A total of 952 new students for the 2010/2011 Intake will attend the First Phase of the Universiti Sains Malaysia Pimpin Siswa Programme from 9-11 July 2010.
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
12 Jul 2010
Students’ achievement in co-curricular activities is important although in terms of weightage for university admission, it only contributes 10% compared to the 90 % for academic achievement.
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
12 Jul 2010
The registration of new students at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) for the 2010/2011 Academic Session ran smoothly and witnessed more than 4000 students registering themselves at the three USM campuses.
Nature Publishing Group
11 Jul 2010
Tropical cyclones obey the law; Evolutionary genomics: Chicken surprise; Sea-level patterns in the Indian
Ocean; A successful pathogen; Seeing uranium nitride in a new light; GPCR
assemblies in view
RIKEN
09 Jul 2010
A large-scale genetic screen reveals a factor that makes rheumatoid arthritis patients’ joints vulnerable to immune attack
RIKEN
09 Jul 2010
A large-scale genetic screen reveals a factor that makes rheumatoid arthritis patients’ joints vulnerable to immune attack
RIKEN
09 Jul 2010
Sheets of cells stick together by monitoring and responding to the pull of their neighbors
Nature Publishing Group
07 Jul 2010
Newly discovered artefacts and fossils found in a UK river deposit indicate that early humans were living in northern Europe more than 780,000 years ago.
Nature Publishing Group
07 Jul 2010
Summaries of newsworthy papers include: Goodall on securing chimpanzees’ future; Why we should worry about future oil spills; Anatomy of a powerful microquasar; Gathering dust; A bright future for entangled photons
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International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
05 Jul 2010
Rethinking land management techniques to mitigate the effects of weather-related disasters
Prince of Songkla University
05 Jul 2010
Memorandum of Agreement signed on Thursday, April 29, 2010.
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Prince of Songkla University
05 Jul 2010
Developing educational quality of Thailand and Russia.
Nature Publishing Group
04 Jul 2010
Summaries of newsworthy papers include: Moon’s mantle exposed in craters
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RIKEN
02 Jul 2010
Interference patterns made by wave-like electrons reveal that tiny atomic magnets are critical to iron-based superconductors
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RIKEN
02 Jul 2010
The discovery that secreted protein Ecrg4 slows neural precursor cell division during aging could point the way to treatments for age-related diseases
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RIKEN
02 Jul 2010
Single water molecules can now be sliced into different atomic components, thanks to the electronic properties of ultrathin oxide films
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RIKEN
01 Jul 2010
Tokyo, 1 July - A research team in Japan has linked a developmental checkpoint in the differentiation of hematopoietic progenitors into specific T cell lineages to the activity of a single gene encoding a transcription factor. Reported in Science this week, the discovery lends support to a new model for the development of blood cells lineages.
Nature Publishing Group
30 Jun 2010
Supernova diversity explained by asymmetric explosions; Big potatoes the organic way; The roots of multicellular life; Efficient conservation of our futures; Genetic basis for balding disease; First feats of an ultra-intense X-ray laser; The genetics of new species; Add nitrogen to get the opposite effect; Beware mice with ‘come to bed’ eyes
Automated Tongue Image Acquisition and Analysis System
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
30 Jun 2010
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has made a head start in Medical Biometrics researches, with the development of several state-of-the-art authentication and medical diagnosis tools based on the concept of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM).
The Asian Institute of Technology
28 Jun 2010
A recent study by Thai Research Fund (TRF) on the research output of Thai universities confirms that Thailand-based Asian Institute of Technology (AIT) excels in all engineering subject areas that it offers.
Nature Publishing Group
28 Jun 2010
Plant biodiversity can be maintained by a process of negative feedback between tropical trees and soil-dwelling organisms, a Nature study suggests.
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
28 Jun 2010
The Board of Governors of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has written to us expressing views on the matter of IDRC Board Chairman Barbara McDougall’s overlapping membership on the Board of Imperial Tobacco Canada (ITC), which came to an end in March 2010.
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International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
28 Jun 2010
Indigenous people in western Kenya have relied on the mystical abilities of the Nganyi rainmakers to predict the weather for generations.
International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
28 Jun 2010
Pakistan has achieved some economic success – mainly in agriculture and industry – despite recurring political instability since the country’s independence in 1947.
Universiti Sains Malaysia
28 Jun 2010
The Deputy Prime Minister, Tan Sri Dato’ Muhyiddin Yassin said that further investigations regarding the issue of members of the Jemaah Islamiah (JI) recruiting local teenagers and university students will be handled fully by the police. He said that he has been given to understand that a special meeting to discuss this matter will be held soon.