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Asia’s Rising Scientists: Song Wu
Song’s research into urinary tract cancer and cancer genomics has earned him numerous awards, both national and international—and he is just getting started.
Helping Lab-On-A-Chip Devices To ‘Swallow’ With Electro-Osmosis
Mimicking how muscles push food down the esophagus allows microdevices to move fluids; adding an electric field helps to further control this motion.
NAOC & CSIRO Develop World’s Largest Single Dish Telescope
Chinese and Australian teams are collaborating on the design and construction of the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope in China.
Swallowed A Battery? Origami Robot Surgeon To The Rescue!
This ingestible robot unfolds itself in the stomach and, steered by magnetic forces, can remove button batteries or heal wounds.
Obesity On The Rise In Indonesia
Indonesia is experiencing both under- and over-nutrition at the same time, prompting researchers to call for a public health policy overhaul.
Ten Materials Inspired By Mother Nature (VIDEO)
The natural world is filled with strange, fascinating structures that are stronger, more flexible and more resilient than anything humans can make.
Predicting Earthquakes From Underground ‘Ultrasounds’ (VIDEO)
By pairing vibrational pulses with seismic sensors, researchers have developed a method to detect faults deep below the Earth's surface and predict future earthquakes.
Green Algae Chase Light With The Help Of ‘Eyespots’
Clusters of pigment called ‘eyespots’ on the surface of the unicellular algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, help it identify which direction light is coming from.
Semiconductor Shows Ferromagnetism At Room Temperature
Researchers have reported growing iron-doped ferromagnetic semiconductors that work at room temperature—a longstanding physical constraint.
