VNREDSat-1 (Vietnam’s first Natural Resources, Environment and Disaster monitoring satellite) was launched into orbit from the space centre in Kourou, French Guiana, on May 7th, 2013. After...
The Vietnam Book Award 2013, held by the Vietnam Publishing Association, drew the participation of 37 Vietnamese publishers with 328 books, including 188 books for the Interesting Book prize and...
Plant researchers from the Southern Institute of Ecology under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology found Dreswe fungus (scientific name isPhallus drewesii Desjardin & B.A. Perry) in a...
A group of scientists from Institute of Tropical Biology under Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Mr. Pham Hong Thai from Education Department of Cam Le District, Da Nang, Vietnam and Prof....
A group of scientists from Vietnam National Museum of Nature under Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi pharmaceutical University and Dresden Plant Institute – Germany, has discovered a...
Many problems arise in practice that are modeled as a non-convex optimal problem. Many algorithms have been proposed to solve the problems posed in the general case as well as in some specific...
In the past, farmers often abandoned the autumn-winter rice cultivation land from the summer-autumn harvest to the next summer-spring crop (3-4 months). During this period, rice straw is harvested...
According to the survey results of Vietnamese botanists, there are 15 coniferous species in the Central Highlands, many of which are of high value. However, only the species of long-leaf red pine...
December 19th 2013 marks a full month since the PicoDragon micro satellite was launched into its orbit and successfully transmitting signals to earth. Together with ground stations under the...
Bentonite is a kind of natural clay mineral used as a raw material in many industries. Especially bentonite contains montmorillonite mineral (MMT), due to its special structure, it has the ability...
A group of researchers from the Vietnam Museum of Nature - Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi University of Pharmacy and Dresden Botanical Institute - Federal Republic of Germany,...
A new species of lizard was recently described by scientists from Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources - VAST, Hanoi Nationnal University - Vietnam and Cologne, Germany based on...
In a recent biodiversity expedition of the Wildlife at Risk (a non-governmental organization for conservation in Ho Chi Minh City) in Ba To District, Quang Ngai Province, a small-sized skink was...
Two species including Arisaema/ Martius were observed during field trips near the peak of Hon Ba Mountain.
Geostachys annamensis is one of Vietnam’s endemic gingers – the species was described in 1921 with specimens collected in Da Lat City by Henry Nicholas Ridley Cecil Boden Kloss (1877–1949), a...
Coral reef is estimated to cover over 284,300 km2, with Southeast Asia accounting for 32.2%. Coral reefs are home for more than 4,000 tropical fishes and fishes living in coral reef with high...
Experts in botany from the Institute of Southern Bionomics under the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) have discovered and made public a new species named Leonid crocus (Curcuma...
“Research on marine geology and geophysics” is a scientific publication of the Institute of Marine Geology and Geophysics (IMGG). The Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology covered part of the...
At 04:48 am Japan time (02:24 am Vietnam time) on August 4th 2013, at Yoshinobu launching pad at Tanegashima space centre, Vietnam’s micro satellite Pico Dragon was carried into space on Japan’s...
Organic substances, N and P from daily sewage and human production activities are the main causes for eutrophycation in freshwater. The interior surface waters of Vietnam, especially lakes and...
Scientists and economic experts forecast that the 21st century is the century of oceans. Vietnam is among few nations that has marine exclusive economic zone of one million cubic kilometers....
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...
