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Science Council of Japan to clarify its position on lifting military-linked research ban

Edit Stars and Stripes 25 Jun 2016
TOKYO (Tribune News Service) — The Science Council of Japan will make clear its position on military-linked research — possibly overturning a decades-long ban — by early next year, the academic group said Friday ... It will also deliberate on the sensitive question of whether institutions or independent researchers should judge what can and cannot be the subject of research ... Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA)....

Not Your Average Internship: 3D Explorations Lead to Real-World Product (Adobe Systems Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jun 2016
Inside our research lab, the academic world meets real-world impact. And, research publications, patents and new products are all part of the job description - even for interns and new hires. That's what attracted Ersin Yumer to intern here and eventually join as a full-time researcher ... 'This is a really open research group that straddles the worlds of academia and industry ... Learn more about Adobe Research....

Research on Materials with Neutron Beams Finds New Home in Africa (IAEA - International Atomic Energy Agency)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jun 2016
Pelindaba, South Africa - Scientists from southern Africa no longer need to travel tens of thousands of kilometres to conduct materials research using thermal energy neutron beams, thanks to a recent installation of upgraded diffraction beam line facilities at the Safari-1 research reactor near Pretoria, South Africa ... Research support is also provided in applied themes of industrial interest such as steel production....

Brain tumour risk linked to higher education

Edit Deccan Chronicle 25 Jun 2016
Researchers found that women who completed at least three years of university courses were 23 per cent more likely to develop a type of cancerous brain tumour called glioma, compared with women who only completed up to nine years of mandatory education and did not go to a university ... In the study, the researchers looked at data on more than 4.3 million people in Sweden who were a part of the Swedish Total Population Register....

Scientists create water-activated self-folding straws that can propel liquid

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 25 Jun 2016
Researchers from the Australian National University have made a new paper-like material that can respond to just a small droplet of water by folding into a tube several centimetres long. "We have basically created a material that self-assembles itself into a tube-like straw, a capillary, and this capillary is actually able to deliver fluids once it's been assembled," one of the lead researchers William Wong said....

Old monkeys and old people have a suprising thing in common

Edit The Examiner 25 Jun 2016
Researchers are finding that ageing affects monkeys behavior in much the same way ... Researchers at the German Primate Center in Germany studied 118 Barbary macaque monkeys, aged from 4 -29 years of old ... Researchers found that older primates are more likely to stick to the activities and social circles that they know, rather than make the effort to explore new ones....

Scientists Force Computer To Binge On TV Shows and Predict What Humans Will Do

Edit Slashdot 25 Jun 2016
Researchers have taught a computer to do a better-than-expected job of predicting what characters on TV shows will do, just by forcing the machine to study 600 hours' worth of YouTube videos. The researchers developed predictive-vision software that uses machine learning to anticipate what actions should follow a given set of video frames....

New method helps faster detection of pathogens in lungs

Edit DNA India 25 Jun 2016
Time-consuming bacteria cultures, which takes several weeks, no longer need to be taken from the patient samples, meaning that a suitable therapy can be started quickly, according to researchers from University of Zurich (UZH) in Switzerland ... Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the main representative of this genus, is the causative agent of tuberculosis, which killed around 1.5 million people worldwide in 2014, researchers said....

Yoghurt, milk may help reduce breast cancer risk: study

Edit Deccan Chronicle 25 Jun 2016
Bacteria that have the potential to abet breast cancer are present in the breasts of cancer patients, while beneficial bacteria are more abundant in healthy breasts, where they may actually be protecting women from cancer, researchers said ... DNA damage and are caused by genotoxins, reactive oxygen species, and ionising radiation," said researchers ... Both groups have anticarcinogenic properties, researchers said....

KAU to shift HoD on dalit scholar's complaint

Edit The Times of India 25 Jun 2016
Kerala Agricultural University (KAU) has decided to transfer C R Elsy, head of the Plant Breeding and Genetics department, in connection with her alleged involvement in the delay of the submission of thesis of a dalit research scholar ... some other division of the university , where plant breeding is also part of the research activities....

BCG’s Expand Research Names Amy Tsui Luke North America CEO (BCG - The Boston Consulting Group Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jun 2016
Luke Will Assume the New Role to Drive Growth in the North American Operations of BCG's Global Financial Services Research and Benchmarking Arm. NEW YORK-Expand Research, a company of The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) that provides research and benchmarking services for the world's leading financial institutions, has hired Amy Tsui Luke as a partner and CEO to lead its North American operations ... About Expand Research....

15-06-2016 | Biotech agreement opens way for new auto-immune disease therapies (Queensland University of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 25 Jun 2016
A new personalised treatment for the debilitating arthritic condition ankylosing spondylitis and other auto-immune diseases will be developed through a research collaboration led by QUT's Professor of Genomics, Matt Brown under an agreement between Janssen Biotech Inc., one of the Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, and QUT....

Charusat bags 4 projects from department of atomic energy

Edit The Times of India 25 Jun 2016
Charusat Space Research and Technology Center (CSRTC) - a constituent of Changa-based Charotar University of Science and Technology (Charusat) has bagged four projects from the Institute for ......
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