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Airbus forms a sustainable fuel Center of Excellence in Malaysia

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Airbus and key Malaysian partners recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to assess local solutions for sustainable bio-mass production in Malaysia. The aim is to determine the most suitable feedstocks to ensure that any future jet fuel production in the region is based only on sustainable solutions.

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Malaysia team finds adding graphene nanoflakes to lubricant improves thermal conductivity 17% with no change in viscosity

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A team of Malaysian scientists from the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus and Taylor’s University are examining the effects of adding graphene nanoflakes to various commercially available lubricants. In the future, he plans to investigate graphene’s impact on automotive coolants and electronic cooling.

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New study finds GHG emissions from palm oil production significantly underestimated; palm oil biofuels could be more climate-damaging than oil sands fuels

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Mha (20%) of the peatlands of Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo in 2010, surpassing the area of Belgium and causing an annual carbon emission from peat decomposition of 230–310 Mt CO 2 e. —Miettinen et al. Everywhere we looked, the drainage of peat to plant palm oil is increasing.

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IEEE Humanitarian Program Sees Record Growth

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Volunteers from the IEEE Malaysia Section and IEEE SIGHT members are working to implement an IoT and smart application solution to grow hydroponic plants with real-time monitoring capabilities. IEEE student members from Moi University in Mombasa, Kenya, designed and deployed "smart kibandas"— open huts or cubicles used for informal business.

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Study finds unprecedented urbanization and urban expansion in East-Southeast Asia from 2000 to 2010

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This study reveals the opposite, and this could change how officials plan and adapt to urbanization in the future. —Professor Annemarie Schneider from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, lead author. The population maps were developed by the WorldPop team, led by Andy Tatem at the University of Southampton.

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

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Department of State, is also a professor of practice at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University. What are some of the other big companies outside of China that are up there now competing and actively pursuing mines and/or future processing capabilities? The Lynas Rare Earths Ltd.

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AI Could Help Increase the IVF Success Rate

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Gold-Zamir has a medical degree from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The algorithm is currently being tested in clinics in several countries including Lithuania, Malaysia, and Spain. She launched the company in 2018 with David Silver and IEEE Fellow Alex Bronstein. Bronstein is a computer science professor at the Technion.