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Tsinghua University Wins Student Supercomputing Competition At SC18

A computing cluster built by students from Tsinghua University outperformed those of 14 other international teams in a variety of tasks, including parallel deep learning and weather forecasting.

In the Lab

Nanoparticles Make Metals Both Strong And Flexible

Strong alloys are typically less ductile, and vice-versa. Researchers have managed to overcome this tradeoff by including nanoparticles in the alloy fabrication process.

Technology

Detecting Heart Failure At Home

Researchers have invented a handheld device that can detect symptoms of congestive heart failure in ten seconds.

In the Lab

Biodegradable Microneedles Painlessly Deliver Drugs To The Eye

Scientists in Singapore have developed a microneedle patch that could be used to treat eye diseases such as glaucoma and macular degeneration.

14 Billion Years Of Evolutionary History Condensed Into New Book

Wildtype Books launches Sydney Brenner’s 10-on-10: The Chronicles of Evolution, a book that tells the story of evolution from the Big Bang to the future.

Technology

Singapore To Launch $100 Million Skin Research Institute

Singapore is committing close to S$100 million to launch the Skin Research Institute of Singapore.

Press Release

New Book Traces Humankind’s 14-Billion-Year Journey

Sydney Brenner’s 10-on-10: The Chronicles of Evolution adopts a unique perspective, tracing the evolution of life through ten logarithmic scales of time.

In the Lab

World’s First Mice Born To Same-Sex Parents

Chinese scientists have created mouse pups with same-sex parents using haploid embryonic stem cells and gene editing.

Pharma

WuXi AppTec Launches Drug Screening Library

The DNA-Encoded Library platform consists of 80 billion unique molecules which are structurally diverse and chemically exclusive.

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