‘Science’ Archives
Global Warming: Survival Of The Fittest
Part of a forest will be enclosed, heated up and pumped with CO2 to see who wins and loses if the planet heats up. Global warming has found a willing victim: a small patch of spruce forest in the Chippewa National Forest in northern Minnesota. There, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory will create the [...]
UiTM lecturer first Malaysian awarded Aussie PM’s scholarship
SHAH ALAM: A Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) medical faculty lecturer, Dr Jeegajeeva Rao, created history by becoming the first Malaysian to receive the Australian Prime Minister’s scholarship award. Dr Jeegajeeva, an obstetrician and gynaecologist, received the Prime Minister’s Australia Asia Endeavour Awards worth RM630,500 to pursue a [...]
Reconnecting The Brain
Researchers are working to reconstruct the nervous system so that paralyzed limbs might be active again. Peckham, a biomedical engineering professor at Case Western Reserve University, and Donoghue, a neuroscience professor at Brown University, have been able to reestablish that connection with stunning results, enabling partially paralyzed [...]
Media Technology Changing Science Fiction
We know that science fiction is a form of media that changes the future - it's influenced everyone from scientists to economists. But are new media technologies changing SF? This week I was lucky enough to join scifi writers Cory Doctorow and JC Hutchins, along with scifi podcaster Steve Eley, to talk about the future of media - and [...]
Nanomedicine: New Strategies and Innovations to Understand, Treat and Monitor Disease
Nanotechnology is one of the most popular areas of scientific research, especially with regard to medical applications. We've already discussed some of the new detection methods that should bring about cheaper, faster and less invasive cancer diagnoses. But once the diagnosis occurs, there's still the prospect of surgery, chemotherapy or [...]
Google Wave to be launched soon, for some
BEIJING, September 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Earlier this year, Google announced it was to launch a new product which would transform the way people communicate on the Internet. Google Wave is now set to arrive and be tested by 100,000 people who have preregistered to try out the new offering from the Internet search giant. On September 30th, the [...]
