Science diplomacy to provide platforms for sustainable development
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIN the inaugural issue of Science Diplomacy Perspectives, produced by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Career Diplomat Muhammad Adeel wrote about science diplomacy and how it provides socio-technical platforms that can potentially deliver technology-enabled sustainable development. The United Nations has organized a Food Systems Summit on September 23-24, 2022 to discuss the future of global food […]
Hubble spots farthest star ever seen
Reading Time: 2 minutesNASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has established an extraordinary new benchmark: detecting the light of a star that existed within the first billion years after the universe’s birth in the big bang — the farthest individual star ever seen to date. The find is a huge leap further back in time from the previous single-star record holder; […]
NTU S’pore produces oil from microalgae to replace palm oil in food production
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA TEAM of scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has developed a method to effectively produce and extract plant-based oils from common microalgae, using a newly discovered method that could serve as a healthier and greener alternative to palm oil. Palm oil is the world’s most popular vegetable oil, used in around half […]
Aquaculture: The Good, The Bad and the Restorative
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY DR ANNETTE JAYA RAM, DR ABE WOO SAU PINN, DR AILEEN TAN SHAU-HWAI CENTRE for Marine and Coastal Studies (CEMACS) at Universiti Sains Malaysia is deep in research on cultivating bivalves and seaweeds as natural bio-remediators, to reverse the adverse effects of unchecked aquaculture farming. Penang’s aquaculture sector, though a thriving global export industry […]
Research team finds a single gene can affect entire ecosystem
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA RESEARCH team from the University of Zurich (UZC) has shown that a single gene can affect an entire ecosystem and the discovery of the “key gene” could change the current strategies of biological diversity conservation. The UZH researchers and their colleagues from the University of California report that a mutation in a single gene dramatically changes […]
How does food affect your brain health?
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI DO YOU KNOW that you can fix your brain to experience the best memory, productivity and sleep you have ever had? My goal here is to share with you the right thing to do. Let’s discover what moves the needle to get you better brain health. Food has a significant […]
Tech boost for Malaysia’s agarwood industry
Reading Time: 3 minutesIN LINE WITH the growing digitalisation trend driving Agriculture 4.0, Malaysia’s leading Agarwood plantation company, DAdvance Agarwood Solutions Sdn Bhd (DAAS) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently with Huawei Technologies (Malaysia) to implement cloud-based digital solutions within the Agarwood sub-industry. The collaboration also features XTS Technologies Sdn Bhd. – a robotics solution and […]
Diagnosing HPV via the DNA test
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY MAHALETCHUMY ARUJANAN & SAARANI VENGADESEN IF THERE is one cancer that can be eliminated completely from the face of the earth, it is cervical cancer. Imagine if 604,237 women globally could have been spared the painful experience of contracting this cancer and 341,843 lives saved. What is probably more painful than the cancer is […]
Sitting is Dangerous
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI ACCORDING to a survey that evaluated sedentary lifestyles, nine out of ten Malaysian spend more than half of their waking hours sitting (at least six hours a day) at their desk. Long, uninterrupted periods of sitting, whether you are sitting at a desk, behind the wheel, or in front of […]
Local researchers proposed superpowered microalgae for wastewater treatment
Reading Time: 4 minutesBY AISHWURIYA KUNASHANKAR & SAARANI VENGADESEN WHAT do you get when you put a bioplastic expert, a microalgae specialist, and a cancer researcher together? A Marimo. Read further to know how a multidisciplinary team is moving from the concept stage to a proposed sustainable plan that can play a role in reducing environmental footprint. The Petri […]