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Compound In Green Tea Plant Shows Potential For Fighting Tuberculosis, Finds Research Team Led By NTU Singapore

December 17, 2019

An antioxidant found in the green tea plant could become key to tackling tuberculosis one day, a team of international scientists led by Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) has…

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NUS Researchers Find Potential Solution To Overheating Mobile Phones

December 13, 2019

Modern computer memory encodes information by switching magnetic bits within devices. Now, a ground-breaking study conducted by researchers from NUS Electrical and Computer Engineering has found a new efficient way of using…

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One Reason So Many Scientific Studies May Be Wrong

November 25, 2019

There is a replicability crisis in science – unidentified “false positives” are pervading even our top research journals. A false positive is a claim that an effect exists when in…

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Singapore Unveils Its National Artificial Intelligence Strategy

November 13, 2019

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Heng Swee Keat, announced today that Singapore will embark on a plan to develop and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to transform Singapore’s economy…

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Three Things The Scientific Community Can Do To Filter Sketchy Research

November 12, 2019

Last month, Indonesia’s previous Minister of Research and Technology boasted that in 2019, Indonesia had overtaken Malaysia and Singapore in the number of published academic articles. However, scholars argue this…

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Will We Ever Cure Cancer?

October 31, 2019

We asked three cancer experts – Nobel laureate Professor Harald zur Hausen, Professor Walter Ricciardi and Dr Elisabete Weiderpass – for their thoughts on curing cancer. They all sit on…

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Singapore Scientists Simplify Lithium-Sulfur Battery Production to Meet Future Energy Storage Needs

October 10, 2019

Singapore scientists from NanoBio Lab (NBL) of A*STAR have developed a novel approach to prepare next-generation lithium-sulfur cathodes, which simplifies the typically time-consuming and complicated process for producing them. This…

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Natural Ways Of Cooling Cities

October 2, 2019

ETH Zurich scientists have been researching the effect of precipitation and population size on rising temperatures in cities compared with the surrounding countryside. They have found that more green spaces…

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Analysis Of Global Cancer Data Shines Light On Alternative Gene “Switches” In Tumours

September 6, 2019

Novel genomics and computational methods reveal how gene “switches” impact survival rates of cancer patients, paving the way to targeted cancer treatments Scientists from the Agency for Science, Technology and…

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Physicists Design An Experiment To Pin Down The Origin Of The Elements

August 30, 2019

Nearly all of the oxygen in our universe is forged in the bellies of massive stars like our sun. As these stars contract and burn, they set off thermonuclear reactions…

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