Tan Eng King – Asian Scientist Magazine

Editor’s Note – January 2016 Print Magazine

Asian Scientist is proud to present the Asian Scientist 100, the first ever listing of scientists in Asia who have made an impact in the past year, in the January 2016 print magazine!

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.

The Asian Scientist 100