by admin | Nov 7, 2020
Intact tropical forests that are untouched by human activity absorbed 17 per cent of human-made carbon dioxin emissions in the 1990s, or about 46 billion tonnes. But two decades later that has fallen to six per cent, or 25 billion tonnes. The compromised capacity...
by | May 3, 2020
Contrary to previous belief, globular clusters around the giant galaxy at the centre of the Perseus galaxy cluster are not all ancient objects. Instead, several thousand have been forming at a roughly steady rate out of a cool gas in the centre of the Perseus galaxy...
by | May 3, 2020
Professor Mee-Len Chye, Wilson and Amelia Wong Professor in Plant Biotechnology from the School of Biological Sciences, who led the research team, said: “Increasing grain size and yield, besides rice bran and seed lipid content, in crops such as rice is an important...
by | May 3, 2020
When Professor Xiang Zhang undertook his qualifying PhD examination at the University of Berkeley, California, in 1994, he was asked to explain how his examiner’s voice could be heard across the table. “I answered, ‘it is because your sound travels by vibrating...
by | Nov 7, 2019
The primary objective of the ‘STEAM’ competition, organised by the Faculty of Engineering and the Arts & Technology Education Centre (ATEC) and supported by the Knowledge Exchange Fund, was to enhance interest in and knowledge of how to engineer musical...
