The excessive presence of nutrients, primarily nitrogen and phosphorus, has unleashed a menacing ecological domino effect, igniting algal blooms in many water bodies. These algal blooms, though visually striking, bring darkness to the aquatic world, blocking sunlight and depleting oxygen levels. The far-reaching consequences of this phenomenon have given birth to dead zones - regions marked by alarmingly low oxygen levels, causing the death of marine life and severely impacting fishing industries.

Led by Ts. Dr. Megat Muhammad Ikhsan Bin Megat Hasnan. In 2022, through HiPER, as advisor to the 3rd year Electric and Electronic Integrated Design Project, Dr Megat had brought his team’s prototype entitled "Self-Powered LED System Using Carbon-Based Nanofluid Photothermoelectric Storage" that presented at International Conference on Advances in Manufacturing and Materials Engineering: ICAMME 2022, 9—10 August, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and National Innovation and Invention Competition (NIICe) 2022, 22 August, UTHM, Malaysia and awarded with silver medal.

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) have developed an IoT-based portable biosensor for the rapid detection of E. Coli O157:H7. Ensuring the safety of food is a top global public health priority. Food contamination by pathogens or pollutants poses a significant threat to human health, especially for individuals at higher risk of infection, such as newborns, young children, pregnant women, and the elderly.

Researchers from the Faculty of Engineering at Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) fabricated carbonized sawdust/barium titanate composite using a sol-gel method, which was later incorporated into cotton substrate by using a dip-coating process to produce a solar absorber.

In this article, we take a closer look at a research on coalescence of oil droplets using microporous membranes. In the case of oil-water emulsion, the separation by using the polymeric microporous membrane behaves differently and molecular sieving mechanism may not be applicable. Oil droplets in water are instable and tend to coalesce to form larger droplets. Contrarily, smaller oil droplets are more stable and the leaning to merge with each other is low.