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East Asian Universities Remain Asia’s Most Innovative

Universities in South Korea, Japan and China make up the majority of Reuters' Top 75: Asia’s Most Innovative Universities list.

Could These Be The First Animal Footprints On Earth?

An international team of researchers has discovered fossil footprints left by animals that may have lived about 635-541 million years ago in China.

‘Velcro’ That Traps Prostate Cancer Cells

Scientists have developed an inexpensive detector that works like Velcro to capture prostate cancer cells on frosted glass slides, allowing for easy diagnosis.

Echoes Of An Ancient Bird

The super-elongated windpipe of a fossilized ‘coiled chicken’ suggests that the bird produced a deep and loud call.

Engineering Blood Vessels Using Shape-Morphing Scaffolds

Researchers have developed a shape-morphing scaffold that can be used to create three-dimensional blood vessel grafts.

Oxytocin Can Warp Our Sense Of Time

The hormone oxytocin is responsible for the temporal compression effect, where the duration of social interaction feels shorter than it actually is.

Creating Custom Yeast Strains For Industry

Scientists have devised a method to ‘reshuffle’ the yeast genome, allowing them to create new yeast strains for industrial biotechnology applications.

Making A Point With Elastic Diamonds

Researchers have shaped diamonds into nanoneedles that can bend and stretch, contrary to earlier notions that diamonds are hard and brittle.

Lion TCR Raises US$20 Million In Series A Funding

The funds will be used to advance clinical trials of LioCyx™, Lion TCR’s T-cell therapy against hepatocellular carcinoma.