Articles tagged with 'Impact' | National University of Singapore

The NUS Environmental Research Institute (NERI) and L'Oréal Singapore have joined forces to improve the plant yield and plant health of commercially important crops through greener and more environmentally-friendly methods. This new partnership was …

Suppose you were given a choice between having a smaller reward now and getting a larger reward 10 minutes later. For most adults, the choice is clear. Withstanding short-term temptation in pursuit of a greater long-term goal is crucial for the …

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a new design concept for creating next-generation carbon-based quantum materials, in the form of a tiny magnetic nanographene with a unique butterfly-shape hosting highly …

Assistant Professor Gopu Sriram and Assistant Professor Nileshkumar Dubey from the NUS Faculty of Dentistry have been honoured with the prestigious International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Awards for their outstanding research. The IADR …

A team of scientists, led by Assistant Professor Shruti Bhatt from the NUS Department of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, has uncovered evasion of apoptosis as a key driving mechanism that causes resistance to treatment in an aggressive form of …

From fortifying supply chain resilience against global disruptions and enhancing safety and resilience of energy systems to intelligent urban transport systems, personalised services and healthcare revolution – artificial intelligence (AI) is …

In 2017, with the collective efforts of the climate change research community, researchers established five Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSP) to facilitate climate change research and policy analysis. The SSPs can be combined with a range of …

Ask any regular commuter about taking the bus or train to work, and most would wish they had another better way to get around or could avoid commuting altogether by working from home. Yet there are some who find the commute enjoyable, viewing long …

Research endeavours at NUS to spearhead innovations in low-carbon technologies have received a shot in the arm recently in the form of funding from the Low-Carbon Energy Research (LCER) Programme, a national initiative that supports research and …

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a novel triple-junction perovskite/Si tandem solar cell that can achieve a certified world-record power conversion efficiency of 27.1 per cent across a solar energy absorption …

A team of NUS researchers led by Associate Professor Lu Jiong from the Department of Chemistry and Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, together with their international collaborators, have developed a novel concept of a chemist-intuited …

Fish is commonly consumed but many may not be aware that the food and aquaculture sectors generate a huge amount of fish scale waste from processes such as preparation, canning, filleting, salting and smoking. Disposal of fish scale waste in …

NUS researchers led by Professor Liu Xiaogang from the NUS Department of Chemistry, in collaboration with Dr Gianluigi Zito from the National Research Council of Italy, have discovered an unusual optical phenomenon called “supercritical coupling” …

Charles Darwin – arguably the most influential man of science in history, accumulated a vast personal library throughout his working life. Until now, 85 per cent of its contents were unknown or unpublished. This year, coinciding with Darwin’s …

Statisticians at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have introduced a new technique that marks a significant step forward in capturing and analysing complex data patterns more effectively and accurately. This could pave the way for …

Shopping for groceries is a common activity for many of us, but for visually impaired people, identifying grocery items can be daunting. A team of researchers from the National University of Singapore’s School of Computing (NUS Computing) introduced …

“Where no man has gone before”, a popular phrase coined in Star Trek, a science fiction television series, embodies the seminal work of scientists on the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission that will allow us to understand the Universe …

Scientists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) employed novel statistical methods to reveal the extent of biodiversity loss in Singapore over the past two centuries. The study paints the most accurate picture to date of the ecological …

The Mechanobiology Institute (MBI) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently secured S$49 million in funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) to promote research aimed at advancing the field of mechanobiology and turning …

NUS scientists have revealed the structure and function of a pupal cuticle protein found in the exoskeleton – a hard covering that supports and protects the bodies of some types of invertebrate animals, especially arthropods – of Aedes aegypti …

Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School (Duke-NUS) have discovered a new vaccine candidate that can be delivered through the nose (nasal) in the form of a spray that promises better and longer-lasting immunity against COVID-19 compared to the …

Food virologists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have successfully propagated the human norovirus using zebrafish embryos, providing a valuable platform to assess the effectiveness of virus inactivation for the water treatment and …

A research team from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has successfully harnessed artificial intelligence (AI) and deep-learning techniques to model atomic-level RNA 3D structures …

Our body’s immune system is a complex network of organs, cells, and proteins that work in synchrony to protect our bodies against infections caused by pathogens and fight against disease-causing changes in our body, such as the emergence of cancer …

Scientists from NUS and the Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) have uncovered one of nature’s most potent tool in an arsenal to combat today’s agricultural challenges: agro-microbials – or agro-chemicals of natural …

The United Nations organises a climate change conference every year, the Conference of Parties (COP), to provide an opportunity for countries to review the ongoing progress following the Paris Agreement on Climate Change signed by 196 parties in …

Being a small country, Singapore is dependent on effective international cooperation for the success of its decarbonisation measures. Collaboration with other countries, such as on carbon markets, clean energy technologies, regional power grids, …

From extreme heat in Europe to floods in West Africa, the wildfires in Canada and record rain in China, the devastating impacts of climate change are reverberating through the world today.Ahead of the COP28 United Nations (UN) climate change …

The Sustainable Tropical Data Centre Testbed (STDCT) – the first of its kind for the tropical environment – hosted by the National University of Singapore’s College of Design and Engineering (NUS CDE) is up and running, marking a significant …

On the 164th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s magnum opus, all known surviving pages of the rough draft of Origin of species have been published online.Three recently rediscovered pages from Darwin’s draft of Origin of Species have been published for …