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Malaysia is one of the major world pepper producer and 95% of its total pepper production comes from Sarawak. Pepper harvests produce a considerable amount of waste and efforts are taken at Universiti Malaysia Sarawak to turn this waste into pellets and have their potentials investigated.

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Universiti Sains Malaysia will be holding press conferences on 23 October to reveal the latest findings on herbal extracts from pipersarmentosum to counter obesity and on 24 October on the MoU with Indonesia's Universitas Haluoleo on ICT training

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While Westerners do not expect robots to have human emotions, Japanese want them more human-like. Japan has greater number of humanoid robots and precedent researches in robotics than any other nation does. Unlike conventional bipedal humanoid robots such as Honda's ASIMO, Waseda University's WABIAN-2 can walk while keeping its knees straight.

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This is a new concept espoused by Waseda University towards becoming a next-generation information society. The foremost goal of the project is the realization of a gigascale system including a 100-million-gate circuit and 1-million-step software as a chip which consumes an ultra-low amount of power.

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Two RIKEN researchers, Yasunobu Nakamura and Jaw-Shen Tsai, have jointly won the prestigious 2008 Simon Memorial Prize for their ground-breaking contributions to the development of low-temperature physics, in particular quantum computing.

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