Hei Ming Lai – Asian Scientist Magazine

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Researchers at NTU have developed a self-tinting window that doubles up as a transparent battery.

Peking University's Zong Chuanming has become the first mathematician working in China to win the Levi L. Conant Prize.

Using DNA from extinct giant marsupials, scientists have shown that the banded hare-wallaby is closer to kangaroos than was previously thought.

As currently practiced, salamander farming techniques harm the wild population by spreading diseases, studies say.

More efficient thermoelectric materials could change the way refrigerators and other consumer devices are cooled.

A total of 16 finless porpoises will be relocated to more secure waters away from the main Yangtze River by 2017.

Wetter weather and active tree planting in China have contributed to the reversal of forest lost in the last ten years.

The orientation of actin protein in the cytoskeleton can determine the asymmetry of the entire cell.

Transport and building energy costs are the two greatest contributors to India's greenhouse gas emissions, study says.