Sim Shuzhen

For stick insects, becoming bird food isn’t the end of the road, but may be the start of a long-distance journey.

A common fungus developed the ability to sense gravity by remodeling a gene it acquired from bacteria.

Yeast, flies and worms may be mainstays in biology laboratories, but non-traditional model organisms like salamanders, giant protists and tardigrades are fast becoming easier to study.

Asian Scientist Magazine finds out how Dr. Finian Tan—chairman of Vickers Venture Partners and one of Baidu’s earliest backers—brings his technical background and industry knowledge to bear on multimilliondollar investment decisions.

With facial recognition technology now widely used in law enforcement and in consumer devices, has privacy become a relic of the past?

Supercomputing Asia talks to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Dr. Goh Eng Lim about the company’s supercomputer that is boldly going where no supercomputer has gone before.

The advent of powerful supercomputers represents a sea change for computational fluid dynamics, a field which is helping scientists and engineers demystify the inner workings of the ocean.

Road tripping humans, rejoice. You’re still in the driver’s seat—for now.

Science writers, don’t be afraid to question the statistical interpretations you read in scientific journal articles—researchers are as intimidated by them as you are.