ONOCAT, innovation to deter stray cats
Reading Time: < 1 minuteCATS are cute, making them pets among people. Yet many people feel uncomfortable or are extremely scared when cats approach them even though these cats are not stray cats. The uncomfortable situation with the presence of cats exists because of physical annoyance and psychological annoyance. Physical annoyance is directed to people with allergies, such as […]
HAR-GO, board game to implement food safety system
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY AZMAN ZAKARIA SERDANG: in Researchers from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) have successfully developed HAR-GO Board (HACCP Ready Go), a HACCP board game based on the classic Monopoly game, for the implementation of a food safety management system. HACCP or Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point System is an internationally recognised food safety management system […]
Making education flexible and future-ready for Malaysians
Reading Time: 2 minutesBY MAZLAN HANAFI BASHARUDIN MALAYSIANS would now have greater access to education as they prepare to join the workforce in the era of Industry 4.0. Recently, the Ministry of Education (MOE) Malaysia held a Seminar on Flexible Education 2019 in Putrajaya. It was organised together with the Higher Education Department and Malaysia Qualifications Agency (MQA). […]
Cool roofs can help shield against heat waves
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNEW STUDY by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) shows that if every building in California sported “cool” roofs by 2050, these roofs would help contribute to protecting urbanites from the consequences of these dangerous heatwaves. Their study, “Interacting implications of climate change, population dynamics, and urban heat mitigation […]
Farmers have choice to grow GM
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHE MARSHALL Liberal Government has recently announced farmers on mainland South Australia will be given the choice to plant Genetically Modified (GM) food crops next season. The decision to lift the Genetically Modified Food Crops Moratorium on mainland South Australia, but retain it on Kangaroo Island, follows recommendations from a high-level independent review undertaken by […]
Giant ‘human-sized’ monster…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists have identified a new species of giant penguin from fossils discovered in New Zealand. The extinct penguin lived in the Paleocene Epoch between 66 million and 56 million years ago, according to the Canterbury Museum. Taller than the modern Emperor Penguin, the penguins, named Crossvallia waiparensis, stood about 5 feet and weighed up to […]
Revolutionising the CRISPR method
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTO DATE, for the most part, researchers could modify only one gene at a time using the CRISPR method. On occasion, they managed two or three in one go; in one particular case, they were able to edit seven genes simultaneously. Now, Professor Randall Platt and his team at the Department of Biosystems Science and […]
A miniature stretchable pump for the next generation of soft robots
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRESEARCHERS in EPFL’s Soft Transducers Laboratory (LMTS) and Laboratory of Intelligent Systems (LIS), in collaboration with researchers at the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Tokyo, Japan, have developed the first entirely soft pump that could play a big role in the development of autonomous soft robots, lightweight exoskeletons and smart clothing. Flexible, silent and weighing […]
New FAO DG takes office
Reading Time: 2 minutesROME: Qu Dongyu (pix) marked his first day in office on Aug 1 as Director- General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations by outlining some of his priorities, including stepping up global efforts to achieve Zero Hunger and spearheading initiatives that focus on making agriculture more sustainable. Qu began by greeting […]
BORIS FOR BIOTECH …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteScientists see positive side on GM and genetic technologies regulation, after new UK PM Boris Johnson’s comments (“…let’s start now to liberate the UK’s extraordinary bioscience sector from anti genetic modification rules and let’s develop the blight-resistant crops that will feed the world…”) in his first speech as prime minister.