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What if the doc tells you, you have a tumour?
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY JOYCE WONG JIN YI FIVE years ago, my constant neck pain warranted me to see a doctor for a check-up. The doctor told me: “Joyce, you have a 2.2cm tumour at your right thyroid. You need to do surgery to remove it. The only good news was my tumour was not malignant. “The immediate […]
Derita Akibat Covid-19
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIkuti pendedahan pelakon drama ‘Covid Oh Covid’, Tiz Zaqyah Zak tentang pengalamannya dijangkiti Covid-19, selain penerangan pakar perubatan keluarga, Dr Sakinah Sulong mengenai mudarat dan derita akibat virus itu pada Sabtu, 19 Jun 2021, 3pm di Facebook Live Science Media Centre Malaysia.
Combine your love for nature and science and make a difference
Reading Time: 2 minutesAre you between the ages of 13-16? We want to hear your innovative ideas! Join the 2021 National Science Challenge by registering a team of three before June 24. Make sure to have identified your mentor teacher also because they would need to submit the registration for you. The competition aims to develop young students […]
Cryonics ambulance for the future
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBY KALAIARASAN SANGKAR WELCOME to the strange world of cryonics. Cryonics sounds like science fiction but is based on modern science. Cryonics is the practice or technique of preserving life using subfreezing temperatures with the intent of restoring good health with medical technology in the future. The concept of pausing the dying process might sound […]
Why is earth spherical and round?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBY GUGHANESWARAN DANERPALAN ASTRONAUTS call Earth as a blue marble since it looks like a perfect round ball. However, Earth is not perfectly round and closer to ellipsoid but why did earth turn to be round and not cube or pyramid? It is because of gravity! 4.6 billion years ago scientists theorised that the solar […]
Who is the real hero of oxygen?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBY THEEVASHINI SUGUMARAN THE first thing that strikes our mind when we speak about oxygen are trees but the fact is 70% of the Earth’s oxygen is produced by marine plants while rainforests only produce about 28% of the oxygen we breathe. Who is the hero in the ocean that produces oxygen? The real hero […]
Over 2,000 Nigerian Farmers Reaping the Benefits of Biotechnology
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIN 2019, six African countries have adopted biotech crops to battle challenges in crop production. One of the biotech crop adopters from the continent is Nigeria, with over 2,000 farmers growing genetically engineered cowpea in 2021. “The crop, which was developed by Nigerian scientists, has been genetically modified (GM) to resist the destructive pod-borer insect pest. As a […]
The dream team: Scientists find drug duo that may cure COVID-19 together
Reading Time: 2 minutesCOVID-19 continues to claim lives across the world and is infecting millions more. Although several vaccines have recently become available, making significant strides towards preventing COVID-19, what about the treatment of those who already have the infection? Vaccines aren’t 100% effective, highlighting the need–now more than ever–for effective antiviral therapeutics. Moreover, some people can’t receive vaccines […]
Lessons from the last pandemic point the way toward universal flu vaccines
Reading Time: 3 minutesA NEW STUDY from the University of Chicago and Scripps Research Institute shows that during the last great pandemic–2009’s H1N1 influenza pandemic–people developed strong, effective immune responses to stable, conserved parts of the virus. This suggests a strategy for developing universal flu vaccines that are designed to generate those same responses, instead of targeting parts […]