Monthly Archives: July 2017

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...

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 UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA (Monash Malaysia) research teams were awarded two gold medals and four silver medals at the International Invention, Innovation & Technology Exhibition...

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, Khazakhstan: Expo 2017 with the theme “Energy for the Future” has brought together over 115 countries and organisations to generate a global dialogue...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...