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Ultra-Thin E-Skin Turns Your Arm Into An LED Display

This flexible, transparent and easily attachable e-skin display could measure blood pressure and blood oxygen levels in the future.

Technology

Carbon Nanotubes For Wearable Electronics, Anyone?

While carbon nanotubes show promise, the jury is still out on whether they can be used for manufacturing wearable electronics.

Technology

Building Tiny But Powerful Lasers

Scientists from Japan and the US have used a method called Q switching to amplify the power output of a small laser.

Features

A Head For Hacker-nomics

Unraveling the economics of cyberattacks is just as important as grasping the technologies that hackers use to launch them, says SMU Assistant Professor Wang Qiuhong.

Features

Keeping Top Management In Check

SMU Assistant Professor Sterling Huang examines how corporate governance structure, the threat of litigation and other factors may impact a company’s decision to cook the books.

Features

What It Takes To Win The Student Cluster Competition

We catch up with the team from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, that scored a record-breaking win at the SC17 Student Cluster Competition.

Technology

A Glue That’s Sticky Even Under Water

A team of Korean researchers have developed adhesives that allow for reversible binding when wet.

Technology

An Energy-Efficient Chip For Tiny Vision Systems

This novel video feature extractor uses 20 times less power than existing chips and could reduce the size of untethered vision systems down to the millimeter range.

Features

Singapore’s Next Lap: Interview With A*STAR’s Dr Benjamin Seet

Precision medicine and digital healthcare are likely to be emphasized in the upcoming R&D budget, says Dr. Benjamin Seet, executive director of the A*STAR Biomedical Research Council.

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