Siapakah orang pertama yang menemui virus Coxsackie?
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTahukah anda, orang pertama yang menemui virus Coxsackie adalah Dr. Gilbert Dalldorf pada tahun 1948-1949. Beliau merupakan seorang saintis di Jabatan Kesihatan di Albany, New York State. Lahir dan dibesarkan di Midwest, Gilbert Dalldorf berhijrah ke timur untuk menjalani latihan perubatan dan meluangkan sebahagian besar kerjaya profesionalnya di bandar New York. Seorang lelaki yang baik, […]
Scientists identify a new kind of human brain cell
Reading Time: 3 minutesOne of the most intriguing questions about the human brain is also one of the most difficult for neuroscientists to answer: What sets our brains apart from those of other animals? “We really don’t understand what makes the human brain special,” said Ed Lein, PhD, Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science. “Studying the […]
USM collaborates with authorities to establish UNESCO heritage site at Sungai Batu
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY MAZLAN HANAFI BASHARUDIN Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) will continue to collaborate with the authorities towards making the Sungai Batu archaeological site in Sungai Petani, Kedah a UNESCO World Heritage site. The collaboration between USM and the Department of National Heritage (JWN) which started in 2007, has uncovered the Sungai Batu early civilisation site, with […]
‘Strange metals’ just got stranger
Reading Time: 3 minutesBY KRISTEN COYNE TALLAHASSEE, Fla: Scientists at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory (National MagLab) have discovered a behavior in materials called cuprates that suggests they carry current in a way entirely different from conventional metals such as copper. The research, published in the prestigious journal Science, adds new meaning to their moniker, “strange metals.” […]
New wasp species
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRESEARCHERS from the University of Turku, Finland have discovered a new wasp species in the Amazon which has an exceptionally large stinger that surprised even the scientists. The new insect, which is found in the extremely diverse transitional zone between the Andes and the Amazonian lowland rainforest, uses its stinger both for laying eggs and […]
Meet NOTCH2NL, the humanspecific genes that may have given us our big brains
Reading Time: 5 minutesTHE evolution of larger brains in the last 3 million years played an important role in our ability as a species to think, problem-solve, and develop culture. But the genetic changes behind the expansion that made us human have been elusive. In a pair of papers publishing May 31 in Cell, two teams of researchers […]
Sarawak forest yields new bird species
Reading Time: 2 minutesKUCHING: A Sarawak Forest Department team led by researcher Dr Ahmad Ampeng discovered an unidentified bird species recently. The discovery is most likely a new sub-species of a pheasant from the family Phasianidae belonging to the genus Lophura. This is based on the taxonomy description made. According to acting director of forest, Tuan Hamden Mohammed, […]
Sweet odyssey!
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhich came first, sweet potatoes or human? An awe-inspiring read on the humble tuber crop. EVIDENCE reported in the journal Current Biology on April 12 shows that sweet potatoes arose before there were any humans around to eat them. The findings also suggest that the sweet potato crossed the ocean from America to Polynesia without […]
Scientists mimic neural tissue in Army-funded research
Reading Time: 2 minutesUS Army-funded researchers at Brandeis University have discovered a process for engineering next-generation soft materials with embedded chemical networks that mimic the behavior of neural tissue. The breakthrough material may lead to autonomous soft robotics, dual sensors and actuators for soft exoskeletons, or artificial skins. The research lays the foundations for futuristic soft active matter […]
EARLY HUMAN INNOVATION…
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnthropologists at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and an international team of collaborators have discovered that early humans in East Africa had–by about 320,000 years ago–begun trading with distant groups, using color pigments and manufacturing more sophisticated tools than those of the Early Stone Age. These newly discovered activities approximately date to the […]