Monthly Archives: July 2017
The newsroom, what’s the inside story?
Participants at journalism workshop get first hand account of
the goings-on in the newsroom and how news is gathered and
reported. The workshop was hosted by...
New cassava varieties to ease hunger
BY WAHINYA HENRY
RESEARCHERS say the Virus Resistant Cassava for Africa Plus (VIRCA Plus) disease resistant and nutritionally-enhanced varieties are expected to improve the livelihoods...
Monash Malaysia bags 2 golds, 4 silvers at ITEX 17
MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA (Monash Malaysia) research teams were awarded two gold medals and four silver medals at the International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition...
Movie review: ‘Food Evolution’
BY KEVIN FOLTA
LAST year a Pew Research poll gauged public sentiment toward genetic engineering of food crops (familiarly, ‘GMO’). The results showed that while...
Astana expo hosts global dialogue on energy
ASTANA, Khazakhstan: Expo 2017 with the theme “Energy for the Future” has brought together over 115 countries and organisations to generate a global dialogue...
Ramping up Malaysian entrepreneurs to go a notch higher
BY SAMIRA RASUL
A special dialogue session was hosted by the Research Management & Innovation Complex, University of Malaya recently.
The speaker, Rekha Pai Kamath, is...
Why is blood red?
A small paper cut in the finger and we can see red blood oozing out.
A common assumption is that the presence of haemoglobin causes...
How GM crops can help us to feed a fast-growing world
BY STUART THOMPSON
The United Nations forecasts global population to rise to more than nine billion people by 2050. Climate change may mean that the crops...
Abuse of antibiotics takes us one big circle to square one
BY SADEQUR RAHMAN
The story of the discovery of penicillin is enchanting. An overworked microbiologist goes on holiday, opens plates with bacteria growing on them,...
Who discovered the existence of galaxies other than our Milky Way?
IN the early 1900s, astronomers were debating the makeup of spiral nebulae — cloudy, spiral-shaped objects found throughout the night sky.
Were they gas clouds...
