Role of social scientists in fighting the pandemic
Reading Time: 3 minutesIN MALAYSIA social science and natural science stand poles apart. There is very little collaboration between scientists in these two fields. While scientists from both sides create body of knowledge and their work is based on empirical data, there seem to be lack of understanding and trust between them. This could have stemmed from our […]
Will oil palm plantations in Malaysia stay forever?
Reading Time: 2 minutesWILL oil palm plantations be a thing of the past? Will the global demand for palm oil be met by oil and its derivatives grown in laboratory bioreactors? This looks like what the future will take us to. There are already start-ups embracing synthetic biology where microbes will convert food waste and industrial by-products into […]