Topic: National University Of Singapore

Schrödinger's cat and mouse

IT SOUNDS foolproof. One of the fundamental tenets of quantum mechanics is that measuring a physical system always disturbs it. If the system in...

Carbon-free nuclear?

Wade Allison produces a good argument for drastically raising the limits on the amount of radiation to which people can be safely exposed (31 July...
Elisabeth Rieper at the National University of Singapore and colleagues have created a model that suggests that DNA may be held together by quantum...

Robots vie for World Cup glory in Singapore

As World Cup action heated up in South Africa, Pele was making his own piece of football history in Singapore.Slicing the ball past the goalkeeper in the dying seconds of the match, Pele scored the match-winning goal in the finals of ...

What Will Life Be Like in 2050?

By mid-century there will likely be 9 billion people on the planet, consuming ever more resources and leading ever more technologically complex...

Hey, Four-Eyes: Go Outside!

Nearsightedness has become ever more common in rich nations, most dramatically in Asia--80 percent of young adults in Taiwan and Singapore are...

Could your keyboard spy on you?

Researchers say that small devices called JitterBugs could piggyback onto network connections to discreetly send passwords and other sensitive data...
Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan will take up a teaching post at a Singapore university next year, a spokeswoman for the school said Thursday.Annan will start his teaching stint in early 2010 at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy ...