Keep up to date with developments on COVID-19 with NUS News as we bring you the latest research in the fight against the virus. 

A team of 22 researchers from 24 institutes led by Associate Professor Daniel Friess and Dr Erik Yando from NUS Geography has found that the global loss rate of mangrove forests are far less alarming than previously suggested.

The recently-announced Singapore Budget is generous in its outreach to help businesses, employees and households overcome their economic difficulties, while also strategically positioning the country for future challenges. NUS Business Associate Professor Simon Poh analyses the measures that were unveiled.

Professor Leonard Lee, Professor Koh Chan Ghee and Dr Catherine Wong from the Lloyd’s Register Foundation Institute for the Public Understanding of Risk at NUS explain that the public should be mindful not to be vectors of misinformation, distrust and anti-social behaviour.

Many experts from NUS are contributing in various ways to strengthen Singapore’s defence against COVID-19. Professor John Eu-Li Wong, Professor Leo Yee Sin and Professor Tan Chorh Chuan share their insights on the issues COVID-19 presents in Singapore, and how they can be overcome.

Members of the NUS community have published creative and educational comics on the COVID-19 outbreak, to help reassure and share knowledge with the general public.

As part of a four-day State Visit to strengthen bilateral ties and areas of potential business collaboration between Indonesia and Singapore, State President Madam Halimah Yacob paid a visit to NUS Enterprise and Salim Group’s BLOCK71 Yogyakarta

These pits in Sagaing Region in Myanmar were formed due to unregulated informal mining on sites that were abandoned after formal gold mining operations were completed. A recent NUS study showed that better approaches are needed to tackle such informal gold mining activities.

A multi-disciplinary team from NUS Engineering, NUS Medicine and the N.1 Institute for Health has found that the strength of the brain’s global signal fluctuation decreases as the day progresses. The results highlight the potential effects that time of day have on measures of brain activity.

High-speed computing poses challenges to existing regulatory models in areas from securities regulation to competition law. Professor Simon Chesterman, Dean of NUS Law, explores these issues.