Discovery of black holes and the Milky Way’s darkest secret win Nobel for three

Reading Time: 2 minutesTHREE Laureates share this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics for their discoveries about one of the most exotic phenomena in the universe, the black hole. Roger Penrose showed that the general theory of relativity leads to the formation of black holes. Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez discovered that an invisible and extremely heavy object governs […]
Bagaimanakah sabun dan air membunuh kuman?

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSabun dan air sangat penting apabila kita mencuci tangan. Sejak pertengahan abad ke-18, amalan mencuci tangan telah diberi kepentingan sebelum melakukan prosedur perubatan. Pada zaman sekarang terutamanya ketika pandemik Covid-19, kita bukan sahaja perlu mencuci tangan apabila tangan kelihatan kotor, sebelum makan dan selepas menggunakan tandas, tetapi sekerap mungkin bila kita berada di tempat awam. […]
Turtle watch for conservation

Reading Time: 5 minutesBY KOMALAH SELVA BRICKS and Mortar is what I am trained for, but the sea is where I feel I can reenergize. When I came across Universiti Malaysia Terengganu’s Sea Turtle Research Unit (SEATRU UMT) through a resort’s website, it was a dream come true for me as it was not only a meaningful cause […]