Social Innovation Scholarship 2020: meet the winners!
This year’s Social Innovation Scholarship has been awarded to Anuj Agrawal and Zelmeg Otgontogoo, two talented SSE students.
Two NUS teams bag top awards at Times Higher Education Awards Asia 2024
NUS teams behind the interdisciplinary initiative “Managing Aggression using Immersive Content (MAGIC) – A Blended Learning Experience using Virtual Reality” and the NUS Business School’s...
New book celebrates NZ’s ‘six-legged ghosts’
New Zealand insects, whose lives are often invisible to city-dwellers, are put under the microscope in a new, richly illustrated book.
Professor Neil Gemmell named Dean of School of Biomedical Sciences
After making global headlines in his search for the Loch Ness monster, Professor Neil Gemmell has moved onto his next adventure as the new Dean of the School of Biomedical Sciences.
Pioneering endometriosis study awarded Marsden funding
A Canterbury researcher hopes her newly-funded research will lead to better ways of managing endometriosis, a disease that affects over 100,000 Kiwi women.
Federal funds set to boost University of Alberta’s ability to handle highly infectious pathogens
Canada should be much better prepared to combat the next new virus or bacteria that threatens to trigger a pandemic, thanks to $127 million handed out to eight research facilities today...
Manufacturing advances bring material back in vogue
One of the world's most important artificial materials is back in vogue because scientists are harnessing its properties for new and diverse future applications such as space navigation and farming.
Left-handers aren’t better spatially, gaming research shows
Leonardo Da Vinci was one, so too Albert Einstein and Joan of Arc, while the footballer Diego Maradona was famous for using his against England, we are of course talking about left-handers.
Researchers develop new method for specialising and purifying human stem cells into interneurons
Injury to the spinal cord often leads life changing disability, with decreased or complete loss of sensation and movement below the site of injury.
Scientists may have solved a puzzling space rock mystery
An international team of researchers may have answered one of space science’s long-running questions – and it could change our understanding of how life began.
