This timely meeting will focus on the latest global issues and those pertinent to Asia, addressing emerging and re-emerging food and water safety concerns impacting the farm-to-table continuum.
Read more »Call for Papers - The 2nd International Conference Water: Values and Rights [event]
The Palestine Academy for Science and Technology and the Palestinian Water Authority are pleased to announce the 2nd International Conference on Water: Values and Rights to be held from April 13-15, 2009.
Read more »International Conference on Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering Summer Meeting [event]
Singapore - This event aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Computer, Electrical, and Systems Science, and Engineering.
Read more »Predisposition gene for childhood cancer [research]
Summaries of newsworthy papers include Quantifying the Arctic carbon pool, Exploitative tricks of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Domino drug action, Stem cells classified, Glaciers and river nutrients and A jolt to plume models?
Read more »Fifth International Cyberspace Conference on Ergonomics (CybErg'08) [event]
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia - CybErg08 is an international cyberspace conference that incorporates issues in an area of Ergonomics including physical, cognitive, organisation as well as social. This conference also highlights the latest development and current technologies applied in the area.
Read more »Making babies in the future [research]
In a special News report, Nature asks leading reproductive biologists and clinicians what developments in the field could have an equivalent impact in the next three decades. Millions of babies have now been conceived through IVF will any of the experts latest predictions, including artificial wombs, be as commonplace in 2028?
Read more »Astrophysics: Magnetic fields and the evolution of galaxies [research]
Summaries of newsworthy papers include Mars: Water almost everywhere, Earth science: Setting off a Cretaceous extinction event, Microscopy: Watching the cavorting of once-invisible atoms and How the brain pays attention
Read more »Antibiotic synthesis: Fine adjustments [announcement]
In Nature China this week - The soil bacteria Streptomyces can be manipulated to produce polyene antibiotics with improved pharmacological properties. Other highlights include Aquaculture: Stressful scallops, Nanowaste: Reduce, reuse, recycle, High-temperature superconductivity: Warmer than expected
Read more »Material Durability And Weather [research]
Material durability is a major concern in structural design as it affects the particular material service life. A research is currently being conducted to investigate the effect of Malaysia's tropical climate on the strength of epoxy resin concrete structure.
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