Human activities may drive 1 million species to extinction
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) published a disquieting report highlighting...
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Say Cheese, M87!
How do you take a picture something that absorbs all electromagnetic radiation, is extremely massive, and extremely dense? Lately,...
Combating livestock loss and poverty with gene editing
Gene-edited farm animals can be less vulnerable to diseases as well as be more productive. Thus, with these attractive benefits, farmers...
Artificial leaves to combat climate change?
Scientists from the University of Illinois at Chicago have proposed an elegant design of an artificial leaf which is capable of...
Bees can do math too!
Thought human beings are the only ones who can do arithmetic? Think again. A recent study published in Science Advances shows that bees...
United for a Nobel Cause
January was an exciting month for Science students and teachers as they had the rare opportunity to interact with eminent scientists such...
Nature of Science
Science education cannot be the mere acquisition of a body of content knowledge per se but should instead proactively engage students to...
Autophagy can actually stop cancer
Always thought that autophagy is a cellular recycling process within the cell? Yes it certainly is, but in addition to that, scientists...
Corals that are resistant to climate change found!
You are probably very familiar with the negative effects that global warming and ocean acidification can unleash on the fate of corals....
During mating, who is the choosy one? It depends on the temperature you are reared.
Well, at least it is true in a particular species of butterfly, Bicyclus anynana, which exhibits sexual dimorphism. Sexual dimorphism is...
IPSG Physics Symposium 2019
We had another great round of sharing under IPSG to kick off the year, this time at the beautiful campus of Temasek Junior College....
Is Chemistry the odd one out?
In case you missed our previous post about this year (2019) being the 150th anniversary of the discovery, or invention, of the Periodic...
Unravelling antibiotic resistance with Mobile-CRISPRi so as to design better antibiotics
You may have probably heard of CRISPR/Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats/Caspase 9) which is a genetic...
Warmer Oceans, Stronger Waves
Rising sea level and ocean acidification are common effects that come to our mind when we think of climate change but did you know that...
Can we "run out" of elements?
"Phosphorus: 350 years after its discovery, this vital element is running out" Phosphorus was accidentally discovered by a German...
The Nature Hackers
"They let evolution do the hard work for them, waiting until one of the many, many mutations hits the jackpot." Half of the 2018 Nobel...
2019 marks 150 years of the Periodic Table, and 100 years since founding of IUPAC
2019 marks the 150th anniversary of the development of the Periodic Law of the Elements independently by Dmitri Mendeleev and Lothar...
The race for Iodine
" Many people take part in a discovery, sometimes working together, sometimes competing against each other. Sometimes, the world outside...
It's Official!
You may remember we posted an article about the SI Unit Change. On 16 Nov, the world’s scientific and technical community came together...
Plan A Runway Lesson
Models and Modelling in Teaching and Learning Models extend beyond the familiar 3D physical models (e.g. of cell structure). Think of a...
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