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5 Ways Supercomputers Make Cities Smart

Supercomputers are helping urban planners run simulations, make predictions and build models, bringing the dream of a smart city closer to reality.

Raising A City’s IQ

Smart cities represent a tremendous opportunity to improve the lives of millions, but many technical challenges stand in the way. Here’s how high performance computing is being used to address several of the most difficult ones.

Turning The Hourglass Sideways

Science is challenging the notion that aging is an inescapable fact of life. Here are six strategies that have been shown to prolong life in model organisms, and, in some cases, even humans.

Engineered Antibody Neutralizes All Four Dengue Serotypes

Researchers have designed an antibody that targets all four serotypes of dengue, sparking hopes for the first viable dengue therapeutic.

Features

APEC Advisors Call For Science-Based Innovation

More can be done to strengthen scientific ties within APEC, said senior advisors at a high-level networking session held in New Zealand on August 30, 2014.

SG-SPIN Boosts Singapore’s Spintronic Capabilities

The Singapore Spintronics Consortium (SG-SPIN) will facilitate research collaborations between academia and industry.

Academia

ST Engineering & NTU Robotics Lab Backed By US$40 Million Grant

The National Research Foundation of Singapore has awared the ST Engineering-NTU Corporate Lab for advanced robotics and autonomous systems a US$40 million grant.

Features

When Deep Tech Helps Doctors See Clearer

With AI and cloud computing making medical imaging more accurate and intuitive, we are closer to Star Trek's tricorder than you might expect.

In the Lab

Fetal Gene Therapy Prevents Gaucher Disease

Using gene therapy on the brains of fetal mice and non-human primates, researchers have managed to prevent a fatal neurodegenerative condition known as Gaucher disease.

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