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International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
27 Sep 2009
Women in Arab countries are making human rights history as they break down barriers to being treated as full citizens in their own countries. In the past few years, women in Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco married to foreigners have won the right to convey their citizenship to their children.
Nature Publishing Group
27 Sep 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Photonics: Time-domain telescope, Immunology: Driving autoreactive cells to distraction, Physics: X-rays produced by laser-driven particle accelerator, Nature: Sex chromosome’s role in species diversification, Geoscience: Big breaks during Wenchuan earthquake and Neuroscience: Attracted to punishment
RIKEN
25 Sep 2009
Collaboration between RIKEN and J-TEC on research into age-related macular degeneration may lead to new treatment
What is nuclear force?
RIKEN
25 Sep 2009
Muon research at the RIKEN–RAL Muon Facility could lead to commercially viable fusion technology for clean energy generation
Members of the Metabolic Diversity Research Team involved in the licorice project.
RIKEN
25 Sep 2009
Plants biosynthesize a wide variety of compounds by processes that involve enzymes...
RIKEN
25 Sep 2009
Porous coordination polymers that strongly adsorb polar guest molecules can be made using a ligand with separated positive and negative charges
Waseda University
25 Sep 2009
As the number of children who have mobile phones has risen to 40% of elementary school students, 70% of middle school students, and 90% of high school students, e-Safety Education is vital in order to protect children from the myriad mobile phone dangers to which they are exposed.
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Waseda University
25 Sep 2009
World trade has been expanding and driving economic growth in many countries over the past several decades. The trade value of the world as a whole increased more than eight-fold from 1980 to 2007, to approximately 14 trillion dollars.
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RIKEN
25 Sep 2009
An investigation of developing embryos reveals that tissue folding and movement is the key to the turtle’s unusual body plan
Universiti Sains Malaysia
24 Sep 2009
Universiti Sains Malaysia is pleased to announce that one of its academics, Professor Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, has been invited by Harvard University to deliver the first lecture in this year’s “Ecologies of Human Flourishing” series.
University of the Philippines Jorge B. Vargas Museum & Filipiniana Research Center
24 Sep 2009
The exhibition features the video installation by London-based Singaporean artist Erika Tan, to be exhibited simultaneously at the NUS Museum, and selected materials from the UP Vargas Museum art and library collections.
Nature Publishing Group
24 Sep 2009
A fossil of a bird-like dinosaur with four wings has been discovered in northeastern China. The specimen bridges a critical gap in the transition from dinosaurs to birds, and reveals new insights into the origin evolution of feathers.
Nature Publishing Group
23 Sep 2009
Nature Communications will publish high-quality peer-reviewed research across the biological, chemical and physical sciences, and will be the first online-only Nature-branded journal
Nature Publishing Group
23 Sep 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers include A safe space for humanity, El Niño in a warmer world, Speeding on thinning ice, White dwarf’s slow spin is not just skin-deep, Direct RNA sequencing, Quantifying the carbon cycle, Bell’s inequality violated in solid-state system, Irreversible evolution
Nature Publishing Group
23 Sep 2009
In Nature China this week: Researchers in Shanghai have identified a protein that not only detects invading viruses but also helps remove infectious bacteria
RIKEN
22 Sep 2009
Press Release - Japanese researchers have unlocked the secret to ABA, a single plant hormone which play a key role to developing stress resistant crops.
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
22 Sep 2009
A neuroscience research jointly conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Chinese Academy of Science has led to the discovery of the novelty detection mechanism in the gateway to the cerebral cortex.
Nature Publishing Group
20 Sep 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals - Genetics: Variants in prostate cancer, Medicine: Losing weight without too much energy, Geoscience: Deltas in decline, Chemical Biology: HCV lost in translation, Cell Biology: Stopping Listeria spread and Neuroscience: While you were sleeping.
RIKEN
18 Sep 2009
A high-resolution spectrometer to unravel the secrets of nuclear structure
RIKEN
18 Sep 2009
Peiyan Wong Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
RIKEN
18 Sep 2009
Several regions of the primate brain’s prefrontal cortex have distinct functions in high-level cognitive tasks
RIKEN
18 Sep 2009
Unusual behavior in an exotic isotope of neon challenges the traditional foundations of nuclear physics
Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM)
18 Sep 2009
The Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) Director General (DG), Dato’ Dr Abd. Latif Mohmod, led a delegation of 11 management staff to Sungai Buloh Hospital on 11 September 2009 to bring cheers to the young patients.
Nature Publishing Group
13 Sep 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature Research Journals including: Genetics: Hepatitis C treatment response, Climate: Understanding the Antarctic transition, Geoscience: Well-behaved geomagnetic field and Neuroscience: Itching to quit
RIKEN
11 Sep 2009
The 12th summer program at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute (BSI)
RIKEN
11 Sep 2009
Hybrid mice help researchers zoom in on a gene with a potential role in controlling allergic responses
RIKEN
11 Sep 2009
Imaging electron movements that cause chemical reactions is now possible by using high-speed lasers
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
10 Sep 2009
Researchers in Malaysia have identified key laboratory and clinical features of an emerging new form of malaria infection.
Nature Publishing Group
09 Sep 2009
Summaries of newsworthy papers An ocean of magma, Symptomless deer produce infectious faeces, The rise of oxygen, Data sharing, Source-sink mechanism aids embryonic patterning, Ultrathin catalysts made to order and Save our spuds!
Nature Publishing Group
09 Sep 2009
Nature China highlights the best research coming out of Mainland China and Hong Kong, providing scientists from around the world with a convenient portal into publications drawn from across all scientific disciplines.