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...
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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....
It may not necessarily be a"backside" attack for nucleophilic substitutions
82 years ago, British chemists Edward Hughes and Christopher Ingold discovered the underlying mechanism for nucleophilic attacks....
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...
What do you think of during an ultrasound scan?
This self-aware video has attracted interesting comments also regarding Steve Mould's ability to find awesome physics in everyday life......
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....
An idea for pi day but it's only January
This is a fascinating example of the beautiful mathematics buried in simple physical theories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXj...
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...
Chemical compounds and their place in our daily lives - will we know them enough?
How might we spark the curiosity of our students and empower them with the relevant scientific attitudes, mindsets and knowledge in...
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...
Overcoming the difficulty of understanding waves from text and static pictures
Physics is difficult to understand from static pictures and processed texts. 📷 A typical picture on physics of waves for illustration...
Phase Transitions in Cooking
"Cooking is the transition of food under the application of heat." There is certainly much science in cooking. If you wish to be a great...
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...
It's the holiday season, time for some holiday Chemistree?
Christmas is coming, but aren't we all bored of the usual Christmas tree that we see every year? How about trying something new this year...
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...
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