Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

Image via Wikipedia SHARED NATURAL RESOURCES UNDERPIN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY, BUT OUR CURRENT ECONOMIC SYSTEM DOES NOT ACKOWLEDGE THEIR WORTH. CAN A MAJOR NEW EFFORT TO ASSESS THE COSTS OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS FORCE A PARADIGM SHIFT IN WHAT WE VALUE? Amid the dark clouds of the 2008 financial crisis, as the media documented a litany

Jet-injected drugs could improve patient compliance, reduce accidental needle sticks.   Getting a shot at the doctor’s office may become less painful in the not-too-distant future. MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle. The device can be programmed

A supply of clean, affordable energy depends on little-known substances There’s one problem with the silicon age: its magic depends on elements that are far scarcer than beach sand. Some aren’t merely in limited supply: many people have never even heard of them. And yet those elements have become essential to the green economy. Alien-sounding

Researchers at Lund University have unexpectedly discovered that an old cancer drug can be used to prevent rejection of transplanted tissue. The researchers now have high hopes that their discovery could lead to new treatments for both transplant patients and patients with autoimmune diseases. The researchers behind the study, which has been published in the scientific journal

. . . growth of the mice’s breast cancer tumors slowed by nearly 25 % and the size of the mice’s melanoma tumors decreased by 88 % compared to untreated tumors.

Large plantations might pull CO2 out of the air A recent study by German researchers presents the possibility of “carbon farming” as a less risky alternative to other carbon capture and storage technologies. It suggests that a significant percentage of atmospheric CO2 could potentially be removed by planting millions of acres of a hardy little

A Korean research team has developed semi-transparent perovskite solar cells that could be great candidates for solar windows. Scientists are exploring ways to develop transparent or semi-transparent solar cells as a substitute for glass walls in modern buildings with the aim of harnessing solar energy. But this has proven challenging, because transparency in solar cells

Attempting to create “life” from carbon-free, inorganic chemicals All life on Earth is carbon-based, which has led to the widespread assumption that any other life that may exist in the universe would also be carbon-based. Excluding the possibility of elements other than carbon forming the basis of life is often referred to as carbon chauvinism

Newly formed emotional memories can be erased from the human brain. The findings may represent a breakthrough in research on memory and fear. Thomas Ågren, a doctoral candidate at the Department of Psychology under the supervision of Professors Mats Fredrikson and Tomas Furmark, has shown, that it is possible to erase newly formed emotional memories