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…
People tend to locate the self in the…
[caption id="attachment_4288" align="alignright" width="350"] Image credit: Rice Univeresity[/caption] HOUSTON – Whether people locate their sense of self in the brain or the heart can have a major influence on people's decision-making, according to a new…
Developing “greener” household products
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) in Singapore is working with a Japanese multinational company to develop safer, anti-odour and anti-bacteria household products that eliminate the use of harmful biocides. [caption id="attachment_4285" align="alignright"…
Four decades of tracking European spacecraf
[caption id="attachment_4263" align="alignright" width="305"] Villafranca tracking station 1977[/caption] Forty years ago this week, a satellite ground station in Spain became the first to be assigned to what would become ESA. Since then, the network –…
When citizens disobey
New study suggests people use “constructive noncompliance” to enact change. [caption id="attachment_4258" align="alignnone" width="639"] A man walks past a political banner in Guanghua Li that reads, "Patriotism Innovation Inclusiveness Virtue," in Chinese and English.Photo: iStock[/caption]…





