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Yoshinori Ohsumi To Receive Japan’s Order Of Culture

Professor Yoshinori Ohsumi is the 385th person to be awarded the Order of Culture, Japan's highest cultural honor.

7 Must-Read Stories In January 2017

Solar cells, supercomputers and scientists—stories that captured your imagination in the first month of 2017.

Asia’s Rising Scientists: Fatehah Mohd Omar

The road to success often involves hardship, but young researchers should think out of the box for creative solutions, says Dr. Fatehah Mohd Omar.

Jackie Ying Receives Abdeali Tayebali Lifetime Achievement Award

Ying is the first female recipient of the Abdeali Tayebali Lifetime Achievement Award since it was established in 2012.

Shimon Sakaguchi Wins 2017 Crafoord Prize

For his pioneering work in immune regulation, Professor Shimon Sakaguchi has been recognized with the 2017 Crafoord Prize in Polyarthritis.

Asia’s Scientific Trailblazers: Naoko Yamazaki

Naoko Yamazaki became the second Japanese woman to go to space in 2010, and hopes to one day return.

The Algorithms Of Life

Could evolution and the way computers learn both be governed by the same set of rules? Turing Award winner Professor Leslie Valiant thinks so.

The AI Spring Is Coming

Hon Hsiao-Wuen, managing director of Microsoft Research Asia, is excited about AI and robots, and explains why you should be too.

What Humanoids Can Teach Us About Being Human

Why design a robot version of yourself? Asian Scientist Magazine picks the brain of world-leading robotics scientist, Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro, to find out.