Are plastics the devil of the day?
Reading Time: 3 minutesPLASTICS are so versatile and convenient for use in our day-to-day lives – and being cheap – makes them so omnipresent. Being here, there and everywhere used plastic, callously discarded, pose one of the greatest challenges to the natural environment. While many people think that banning or placing a tax on plastic bags will solve the global plastic pollution, research indicates […]
Deadly box jellyfish antidote discovered using CRISPR
Reading Time: 3 minutesRESEARCHERS at the University of Sydney have discovered an antidote to the deadly sting delivered by the most venomous creature on earth — the Australian box jellyfish. The Australian box jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri) has about 60 tentacles that can grow up to three metres long. Each tentacle has millions of microscopic hooks filled with venom. […]
Taiace takes the cake for outstanding financial feat
Reading Time: 2 minutesTAIACE Engineering Sdn Bhd (Taiace) – a diversified company serving a large spectrum of industries received the “Best Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) for Revenue” award. The award was given to the home-grown company by the Malaysia Venture Capital Association (MVCA) on April 24 at the Sime Darby Convention Centre, in Kuala Lumpur recently. Speaking […]
Biosimilars – A case of more for less
Reading Time: 6 minutesCONTRARY to popular opinion, biologics, a large molecule typically derived from living cells and used in the treatment, diagnosis, or prevention of disease, have been around for a long time and regulations overseeing biologics can be traced back to the Biologics Control Act, 1902 in the United States of America (also known as the Virus-Toxin […]
Step towards light-based, brain-like computing chip
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA TECHNOLOGY that functions like a brain? In these times of artificial intelligence, this no longer seems so far-fetched — for example, when a mobile phone can recognise faces or languages. With more complex applications, however, computers still quickly come up against their own limitations. One of the reasons for this is that a computer […]
Communicating science, in the right way
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe inventions and discoveries we see all around us did not fall from the sky. They came about as a result of scientist working around the globe including in Malaysia. In this special column, The Petri Dish takes a peek into the laboratories in Australia, where scientists tell us about their research, discoveries and just […]
Banana disease boosted by climate change
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCLIMATE CHANGE has raised the risk of a fungal disease that ravages banana crops, new research shows. Black Sigatoka disease emerged from Asia in the late 20th Century and has recently completed its invasion of banana-growing areas in Latin America and the Caribbean. The new study, by the University of Exeter, says changes to moisture […]
Changing business landscape with supercomputers
Reading Time: 4 minutesSUPERCOMPUTERS are nothing like your PC. For the most parts, supercomputers are built with Central Processing Unit (CPU)s from AMD or Intel, or Graphic Processing Unit (GPU)s from Nvidia or AMD, but that’s where the similarity ends. A supercomputer is a type of computer that has the architecture, resources and components to perform massive computing […]