Stories

Singapore hosted the seventh edition of Global Young Scientists Summit (GYSS) last week. The annual event centres around the theme “Excite,... Read More

Imagine it is summertime and we are off to enjoy a beautiful day at the beach, says French mathematician Professor Pierre-Louis Lions. “We need... Read More

It is one of the most storied anecdotes in science, one that most of us learnt in school, and that our children and children’s children will... Read More

Renowned cryptographer Silvio Micali has developed a blockchain that could revolutionise how people, organisations and institutions make agreements and... Read More

From co-creating a line of skincare products to advocating for a new gold mining technique that will make the industry more environmentally-friendly,... Read More

From laptops to smartphones, many of the electronic devices that we take for granted today would not have been possible without the work of Finnish... Read More

Natural evolution has given us opposable thumbs, the ability to walk fully upright and brains that can reason. Now, scientists are poised to... Read More

The standard unit for mass will have a new definition before the year is out In Sèvres, a small commune on the outskirts of Paris, lies a... Read More

People should be able to read scientists’ research papers for free, and governments and universities should evaluate researchers based on the... Read More

The new Japanese facility, to be ready by the year’s end, will be Asia’s first detector and the world’s first below ground 14... Read More