From May 17th to 19th 2013, at Da Lat city, the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong, the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) continued testing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to...
Two days after the successful launching of VNREDSat-1 satellite into its orbit on May 7th 2013, the VNREDSat-1 successfully took photos and transmitted them to the ground photo receiving stations...
A new species of the genus Gekko was discovered in Cao Bang Province (Vietnam) and Guangxi Province (China). The new species, Gekko adleri (Nguyen, Wang, Yang, Lehmann, Le, Ziegler & Bonkowski,...
In February 2013, scientists from the Institute of Tropical Biology under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology and Berlin Cave Association of the Federal Republic of German conducted a...
In Vietnam, scientists from the HTI Corp under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) successfully produced UAV. This is the result of the project on studying a group of UAV for...
Nowadays, there is increased demand for dental care. To meet this demand, dentists have made great process in using more aesthetic and safer materials in the oral environment. One of these...
In support of projects VN CBD 600174 funded by IUCN NL and09-92488-000-GSS by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, scientists at the Southern Institute of Ecology, formerly known as...
Over the past twenty years, the Applied Electronics Department under the Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Physics has been the unit that studies and manufactures exact measuring devices and automatic...
Resulted from the cooperation program in biodiversity research, a new species of snake, namely David’s Wolf Snake Lycodon davidi Vogel, Nguyen, Kingsada & Ziegler, 2012, was discovered by the...
For a long time, dog is a close, intelligent and loyal to its owner and is tamed by people. Dog has special ability that other animals do not have: eyes can see through the darkness and nose can...
Description of a new species of the snake genus Oligodon was recently published by a team of French, Vietnamese, Chinese, and German scientists in Zootaxa (No. 3498, September 2012) on the basis of...
Thermal spraying techniques are coating processes in which solid materials (powder, rods, wire or cored form) are introduced into the high-energy flow of material (combustion flame or plasma jet)...
The Dendrobium farinatum is an endemic species to Vietnam according to a 2004 article titled “ein neues Dendrobium der Sektion breviflores aus Vietnam” 1 by a German magazine.
Although in the beginning of the 21st century fossil fuels still play a key role in providing energy, we are on the way of exhausting the resource, which is also the main perpetrator causing...
Vietnam’s seashore stretches more than 3,260 kilometres with an area of over 1,000,000 km2. Each year, this seashore brings in more than two million tonnes of the global harvest of more than 90...
Researchers from the Centre for Biodiversity and Development presented, at a field in Phu My commune on March 29th and 30th, a programme to study the preservation of the ecology and landscape of...
Hericium erinaceus is a type of mushroom with valuable medical properties as it is rich in nutrients, minerals and vitamins. For a long time, Hericium erinaceus has been known as a highly...
The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) has closely cooperated with Chungnam National University of the Republic of Korea in scientific research and training in the field of natural...
Vietnam is situated in the centre of the Asian thunderstorm region – one of three thunderstorm centres in the world. This article gives an overview of thunderstorm activity in Vietnam and results...
Power used for lighting accounts for a surprisingly high percentage of electricity consumption. Over the past years, scientists have conducted research on solutions to reducing electrical usage by...
On January 20th 2012, the State President signed a decision on presenting prizes for 32 works in five fields of humanities and social sciences, natural science, technical science, agricultural...
The fauna and flora of Vietnam has been compiled by the Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources since the end of the 20th Century, to establish a basis for planning, developing and using...
Since the 60s of 20th century and earlier, tigers distributed throughout the mountains in Vietnam, even in the midlands and islands. The places, which were very famous for tiger"s population,...
Two new species of the genus Theloderma were described from Kon Tum and Lam Dong provinces by scientists from the Australian Museum, University of Science in Ho Chi Minh City, Instutute of Ecology...
The genus Cyrtodactylus is the most diverse group of gekkonids with the descriptions of more than 20 new species in Vietnam since 1997. Another new gecko species of Cyrtodactylus was described from...
A new gecko species of Gekko was discovered in Cuc Dong Cape, Ninh Hoa District, Khanh Hoa Province, Southern Vietnam. The full article was published in Zootaxa (No. 3219, 2011).
Situated in the northeast of Quang Ninh province, Co To is one of biggest island districts in Vietnam. Lying 110 nautical miles to the Eastof Ha Long city and 50 nautical miles from the town of...
Situated in the tropical monsoon climate region, Vietnam has one of the most diverse ranges of fruits and vegetables in the world. These fruits and vegetables not only satisfy a domestic demand;...
Vietnam is one of five countries which are forecast to be heavily influenced by climate change, causing an increase in different kinds of severe natural disasters, typically drought and...
