‘Alexa, monitor my heart’
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRESEARCHERS at the University of Washington have developed a new tool to monitor people for cardiac arrest while they’re asleep without touching them. A new skill for a smart speaker — like Google Home and Amazon Alexa — or smartphone lets the device detect the gasping sound of agonal breathing and call for help. On average, […]
Political support reaps benefits from Bt brinjal for Bangladesh farmers
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBT EGGPLANT or brinjal (Solanum mel- ongena) as it is more commonly known in Bangladesh, has revived the country’s egg- plant industry by increasing fruit yield and reducing insecticide use, according to a study led by scientists from Cornell University and the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI). Grown by an estimated 150,000 resource- poor farmers […]
Meatless meat
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBURGER KING’S tie-up with start-up Impossible Foods is seeking to make inroads with customers on plant-based diets. Called Impossible Whopper, meat-less version of America’s favourite burger is made up of mostly soy and potato protein, coconut oil, sunflower oil and key ingredient called heme. Heme, which is produced using a genetically engineered yeast that is […]
New technology converts palm oil waste into products
Reading Time: < 1 minuteINDONESIA’S Coordinating Economic Minister Darmin Nasution has welcomed the adoption of Japanese technology that can convert liquid palm oil waste, known as palm oil mill effluent (POME), into valuable products such docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fatty acid, and animal feed. The Novel Algae-DHA Technology was developed by Japan’s Mobiol Corporation and Tsukuba University. Darmin […]
Russia aims to develop 30 gene-edited plant and animal varieties
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA 111-billion-rouble (US$1.7-billion) Russian federal programme aims to create 10 new varieties of gene-edited crops and animals by 2020 — and another 20 by 2027. The programme, which was announced in April, has also attracted interest because it suggests that some gene-edited products will now be exempt from a law passed in 2016 that prohibits […]
USM LENDS NEW SHEEN FOR OLD CANONS…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTwo 200-year-old cannons which were discovered at Fort Cornwallis, George Town, Penang during excavation work carried out by the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) archaeology team in February 2018, were returned to the Penang State Government last recently after going through a comprehensive and systematic restoration process. In a ceremony at the USM Archaeology Gallery, the Chief Minister […]
UM’s world ranking goes 17 notches higher
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUNIVERSITY OF MALAYA (UM) has risen by 17 places to take the 70th position in the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings for 2020, its best showing to date. In a list that was released recently, UM is now among the top 7 per cent of the 1,001 institutions ranked by the QS World University […]
Could climate change make Siberia habitable?
Reading Time: 3 minutesA STUDY team from the Krasnoyarsk Federal Research Center, Russia, and the National Institute of Aerospace, USA, used current and predicted climate scenarios to examine the climate comfort of Asian Russia and work out the potential for human settlement throughout the 21st century. They published their results in Environmental Research Letters. At 13 million square […]