Tag: september
Green Urea – Fertiliser breakthrough for future sustainability
The birth of the nitrogen fertiliser via the Haber-Bosch process is one of the world’s greatest contributions to modern agriculture.
It has tremendously changed the...
Towards developing sustainable agriculture and food production
SEMARANG, INDONESIA: The Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA) participated in and supported the 2nd International Symposium on...
Gravitational waves grab Nobel for physics
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne for their detection of gravitational...
Slowing down snails extinction
KUALA LUMPUR: Scientists and Lafarge Malaysia recently embarked on a joint study to document the diversity of land snails at limestone hills in Peninsular...
Why do dogs wag their tail?
Wagging the tail is an emotional language that dogs speak. If the tail sets are not wagging, it shows that the dog is relaxed....
Teachers attend creative workshop on teaching science
TRONOH: A total of 80 secondary teachers from Perak, Penang and Kuala Lumpur convened for a three-day - Inovasi Pendidik Programme - organised by...
How fish rain is possible?
Known as the Lluvia de Peces or “Rain of Fish,” it is said to occur at least once and sometimes twice in a year...
Insect meal as aquafeed
KUALA LUMPUR: Located in Malaysia, Crops For the Future (CFF), the world’s first and only centre dedicated to research on underutilised crops, is developing...
Brazil unleashes GM mozzies to combat diseases
A new batch of genetically modified mosquitoes was released in Brazil to combat mosquito-borne diseases such as Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya.
The GM mosquitoes contain...
What is the hottest place on earth?
Death Valley’s name says it all — it is the hottest place on Earth. Death Valley currently holds the record for hottest air temperature...
