Centre of 9 pillars (Co9P)
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Co9P is a community-based centre to help nurture new Industry 4.0 (I4.0) innovations which will help accelerate technology scale-up for small and medium sized organisations. The nine pillars of I4.0 are autonomous robots, simulation, system integration, internet of things, cybersecurity, the cloud, additive manufacturing, big data, and analytics. Malaysian Technology Development Corporation (MTDC) is expanding its […]
Jenjarom school girls win gold for innovation in Croatia
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTHREE girls from SJK (T) Jenjarom added another victory to the string of successes by Tamil school students in international competitions. According to a report in Tamil Nesan, Sruthi Suresh, Thivyasri Chandrasekaran and Kirthanisha Sivakumar from the Selangor school won gold medals at the 43rd International Science and Innovation Competition that took place in Zagreb, […]
Science and Industry
Reading Time: 2 minutesUNDERGRADUATE biology textbooks do little to teach students how science can contribute to successful careers in industry or improved business practices at a time when some fear that science is under attack by corporate interests. A new study from the Center for Integration of Science and Industry at Bentley University shows that textbooks for first-year, […]
Mouse pups with same-sex parents born in China using stem cells and gene editing
Reading Time: 2 minutesRESEARCHERS at the Chinese Academy of Sciences were able to produce healthy mice with two mothers that went on to have normal offspring of their own. Mice from two dads were also born but only survived for a couple of days. The work, presented October 11 in the journal Stem Cell, looks at what makes it so challenging for animals of the same sex […]
UKM researchers receive RM826,500 for iG-R&R research
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBANGI: Smart and Sustainable Township Research Centre (SUTRA), Faculty of Engineer- ing at and Built Environment (FKAB), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) receives RM826, 500 research grant from Malaysia Highway Authority (LLM) to run the research about iG-R&R Transformation Sustainable Rest and Service Area. The two-year research was headed by Dr Muhammed Azry Khoiry and accompanied by 20 experienced researchers from SUTRA who have conducted various research inside and […]
UPM lecturers participate in a two-way research programme in Taiwan
Reading Time: 2 minutesNEIPU, TAIWAN: Researchers from the Department of Land Manage-ment, Faculty of Agriculture, Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) participated in a Two-way Research programme at the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology (NPUST), Taiwan, which is also the Secretariat for University Network for Tropical Agriculture (UNTA), recently. The short-term research aimed at providing exposure to lecturers in the field of agriculture on land development methods, and management […]
Oil firm fuels STEM education in Terengganu
Reading Time: 2 minutesKUALA TERENGGANU: Exxon-Mobil Exploration and Production Malaysia Inc. (EMEPMI) continued its support for education programmes in Terengganu by backing the annual state-level competitions – Terengganu-ExxonMobil-Mathematics Innovation Challenge (TExMIC) and Spark Your Creativity Challenge (SYCC). The final competition and prize-giving ceremony for both programmes were officiated by Terengganu Menteri Besar Dr Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar. Both competitions were started with the aim to encourage Terengganu students to pursue […]
Insightful learning journey at Mabic
Reading Time: 2 minutesIF you are a student who yearns for knowledge, new experiences and good exposure to science communication and science journalism, Malaysian Biotechnology Information Centre (Mabic) is a place for you. Located in Monash University, Mabic is a small cubical office that carries great potentials and huge possibilities. I first got to know Mabic through Dr Mahaletchumy Arujanan, whom I invited as a panel speaker […]
Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’ll be women of the future?
Reading Time: 2 minutesSINGAPORE: Following an overwhelming response to its call to recognise talented young women across the region, the Women of the Future Awards Southeast Asia – the movement created to celebrate and nurture the pipeline of female talent – announced recently that 54 deserving finalists from 10 countries have been selected as finalists in 10 award […]
Bioeconomy Corp moves to MOA
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMALAYSIAN Bioeconomy Development Corporation (Bioeconomy Corp) is now under the purview of the Ministry of Agriculture and Agro-based Industry (MOA), effective November 2, 2018. The economic development agency for the bio-based industry was previously under the purview of Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation, now knowns as the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and […]