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Features

Scientific Success Can Happen Anywhere, Says Nobel Laureate Carlo Rubbia At GYSS 2016

Scientific success can happen anywhere and to anyone, says Carlo Rubbia, winner of the 1984 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Features

Mathematics Is In Everything, Says Leslie Lamport At GYSS@one-north 2016

Mathematics is in everything around us, says eminent computer scientist and Turing Award winner Leslie Lamport.

In the Lab

Why Some People Need Less Sleep

Using a newly developed method for monitoring mouse sleep cycles, researchers identified a gene which allows mice to survive on less sleep than normal.

Be Inspired By The Best & Brightest In Science

The Global Young Scientists Summit 2016 will gather an elite group of scientific luminaries and technology leaders in Singapore to inspire the next generation.

In the Lab

Introducing The World’s Smallest Nanomagnet

A research group has successfully developed the world's smallest single-digit nanosize hard ferrite magnet for use in magnetic recording media.

China’s Wukong Joins The Hunt For Dark Matter

Wukong is the most sensitive dark matter probe to date and China's first mission focused purely on scientific discovery.

Health

Fighting STIs In China With Doctor Training

Customized doctor training helped patients to reduce the risk of developing gonorrhea or chlamydia by 38 percent, study shows.

In the Lab

Arsenic Hitches A Ride On Sugar Transporters To Reach Plant ‘Arteries’

The discovery of transporters responsible for loading arsenic into plant phloems could aid the development of new cultivars which accumulate less toxic arsenic.

Hu Chenming Awarded US National Medal Of Technology & Innovation

Professor Hu Chenming was recognized for his contributions to microelectronics, which are now used industry-wide.

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