Asia Research News 2020

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ENVIRONMENT:

NEWS IN BRIEF

Credit: Masato Hattori

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PLANKTON AND FISH REACT TO CLIMATE CHANGE

A NEW DUCK-BILLED DINOSAUR

Global simulations suggest plankton and fish species are showing resilience to climate change by going deeper underwater or moving to higher latitudes.

Kamuysaurus japonicus, whose nearly complete skeleton was unearthed from 72-million-year-old marine deposits in Mukawa Town in northern Japan, belongs to a new genus and is a new species of herbivorous hadrosaurid dinosaur. Credit: Kyoungchae Kim, Public Relations Team, UNIST

Credit: Clay Bolt

WORLD’S LARGEST BEE, THOUGHT EXTINCT, REDISCOVERED IN THE WILD

Researchers develop a low-cost thermoelectric material made of tin and selenium that efficiently converts waste heat into electricity with ten times higher electrical properties than a previous study.

Credit: Hokkaido University

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With an estimated wingspan of two and a half inches, Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) is the world’s largest bee. First described by British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace in 1858, the bee had been lost to science since 1981. A single female bee was found and photographed in 2019, in an undisclosed location in the North Moluccas islands of Indonesia.

THIN FILM CONVERTS WASTE HEAT INTO ELECTRICITY

STRONG WINTER DUST STORMS MAY HAVE CAUSED THE COLLAPSE OF ANCIENT EMPIRE

Fossil coral records provide new evidence that frequent winter dust storms and a prolonged cold winter season contributed to the collapse of the Akkadian Empire in Mesopotamia, which existed from 24th to 22nd century B.C.E. The 4,100-year-old coral fossil (pictured) was collected in Oman, downwind of the Mesopotamia region.

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STUDY OFFERS VERDICT FOR CHINA’S EFFORTS ON COAL EMISSIONS

China’s efforts on emission reductions, air quality improvement and human health protection were effective. Similar measures could be used in countries such as India to help them reduce emissions alongside rapid economic growth.

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IS TURMERIC PACKAGING THE FUTURE FOR SUPERMARKET SHELVES?

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CATCHING CANCER EARLY

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AQAMAN TAKES AIM AT RARE NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES

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page 64

FINDING THE GENES THAT TURN ON JAPANESE ENCEPHALITIS

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page 65

DUAL STEM CELL THERAPY FOR REPAIRING FAILED HEARTS

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page 66

PROTEIN LINKS CHILDHOOD STRESS TO IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME

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page 58

THE GENE RESPONSIBLE FOR COGNITIVE DEFECTS IN DOWN SYNDROME

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page 52

SCHOOLS AND MEDIA KEY TO CUTTING FINANCIAL ILLITERACY

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page 39

GIANTS IN HISTORY THE ECONOMIST WHO HIGHLIGHTED THE IMPORTANCE OF AGRICULTURE

1min
page 38

PEOPLE: NEWS IN BRIEF

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page 38

THE PHYSICIST WHO MEASURED RADIOACTIVE DECAY

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page 36

GRAVITY MYSTERIES

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pages 34-35

ON THE HUNT FOR PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLES

4min
pages 32-33

GAS COULD BE INSULATING AN UNDERGROUND OCEAN ON PLUTO

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pages 30-31

GIANTS IN HISTORY THE CHEMIST WHO PROBED THE ORIGINS OF LIFE

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page 29

SPACE: NEWS IN BRIEF

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pages 28-29

MAKING NEW CATALYSTS FROM UNIQUE METALLIC ALLOYS

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pages 26-27

Asia Research News 2020

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pages 24-25

THE FATHER OF VIDEOCONFERENCING

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page 23

PHOTON SIEVE WIDENS VIEW OF DYNAMIC HOLOGRAMS

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pages 20-22

COMPUTING WITH SPINS OF LIGHT

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pages 18-19

TAGGING FOR METAL ALLOYS

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GIANTS IN HISTORY MEASURING THE OCEANS' CAPACITY TO PROTECT THE PLANET

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ENVIRONMENT: NEWS IN BRIEF

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pages 6-7

News in Brief: Technology

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page 16

GIANTS IN HISTORY THE SCIENTIST WHO DISCOVERED WHY JELLYFISH GLOW

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page 14

GIANT JELLYFISH GENOME REVEALS EVOLUTION OF HUNTING

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pages 12-13

A Hero of the environment

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page 11

CONVERTING CO2 INTO SUSTAINABLE FUELS

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page 10

LIZARD AND SNAKE SIZE UNRELATED TO CLIMATE

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