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Wanted – An optimal governance system for STI
Reading Time: 3 minutesTHERE is a lively renewed discussion among the scientific community in Malaysia for the establishment of a Parliamentary Select or Standing Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI). The idea is not new, of course. We have been discussing this at Academy of Sciences Malaysia (ASM) and other fora for a good many years now. Lengthy discussions took place during recent ASM’s Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Committee (STIPAC) […]
MONA LISA’S MAGICAL GAZE
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn science, the “Mona Lisa Effect” refers to the impression that the eyes of the person portrayed in an image seem to follow the viewer as they move in front of the picture. Two researchers from the Cluster of Excellence Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC) at Bielefeld University demonstrate that, ironically enough, this effect does not occur with Leonardo da Vinci’s world-famous […]
Urgent attention needed for global tiger recovery efforts
Reading Time: 2 minutesNEW DELHI: “Tiger-range governments agreed on the urgent need to address critical management gaps across the tiger’s range at the 3rd Stocktaking Conference on the Global Tiger Recovery Programme. The conference is the latest collective step in the process that began at the 2010 St Petersburg Tiger Summit – where 13 tiger-range governments committed to Tx2 – an ambitious goal to double the global wild tiger […]
KL to host ‘significant’conference on Pseudomonas
Reading Time: 5 minutesParticipants from 30 countries will convene in Kuala Lumpur in July for the Pseudomonas 2019 Conference where speakers from 12 countries will take to the podium. The conference, co-hosted by the Academic Nexus for Global Scholastic Activities (ANGSA) and the Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre is in a large sense unique, as it is entirely devoted […]