HONG KONG – Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department (AFCD), Ocean Park Corporation and Lingnan University jointly opened the first International Conference on Integrated Conservation of Asian Turtles, bringing together more than 100 experts…
New Wi-Fi antenna enhances wireless coverage*
Researchers at Universiti Teknologi MARA in Malaysia have succeeded in using ionised gas in a common fluorescent light tube as an antenna for a Wi-Fi Internet router. [caption id="attachment_4493" align="alignright" width="300"] The prototype antenna consists…
Speaking in song
Sing-a-long software developed at A*STAR brings sweet melody to any cacophonous cry. [caption id="attachment_4485" align="alignright" width="300"] Copyright : Modified, with permission, from Ref. 1 © 2014 International Speech Communication Association[/caption] Whether you give it your…
Spinning a new version of silk
Simulations and experiments aim to improve on spiders in creating strong, resilient fibers. [caption id="attachment_4478" align="alignleft" width="639"] Microscope images of lab-produced fibers confirm the results of the MIT researchers' simulations of spider silk. At top…
Threading the milkyway
[caption id="attachment_4473" align="alignnone" width="625"] Herschel’s view of G49[/caption] These three new images of huge filamentary structures of gas and dust from ESA’s Herschel space observatory reveal how matter is distributed across our Galaxy, the Milky…






