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Fancy A Remote Controlled Beetle To Do Your Bidding?

Self-steering remote controlled beetles could prove to be more useful than drones for entering small nooks and crevices.

In the Lab

How Microbial Communities Respond To Dams

There are more nitrogen cycling bacteria found in rivers that have been dammed, scientists say.

Features

Taking Small Steps For Vulnerable Migrants

SMU Assistant Professor Song Jiyoung works on migration management, a multidisciplinary field that helps vulnerable migrants and mobile populations.

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Bilingualism And The Brain

SMU Assistant Professor Yang Hwajin studies how language shapes our ability to process information.

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The Rubik’s Cube Of Economics

Deciphering real world issues in economics is like solving a Rubik’s Cube, says SMU Assistant Professor Zhang Haiping.

In the Lab

Neostriatum Neurons: Close But Not Communicating

Although the patch and matrix neurons of the neostriatum are tightly interwoven structurally, they do not appear to communicate.

Ultrasound Away Your Alzheimer’s Plaques?

Although clinical trials are at least two years away, a promising study in mice suggests that Alzheimer's can be non-invasively treated by ultrasound.

In the Lab

‘Junk DNA’ Used To Sort Species

Although short, miRNA sequences have been used to sort out phylogenetic relationships.

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Vanuatu Super Storm Shadows UN Disaster Risk Conference

The third UN World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction began on a sober note as news of Cyclone Pam hung over the proceedings.

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