Highlights

Giant Stark effect in black phosphorus

Giant Stark effect in black phosphorus

April 12, 2017

12 Apr 2017. NUS chemists have demonstrated an electrical field-controlled giant Stark effect in black phosphorus for potential applications in…

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New coral species from a World Heritage Site

New coral species from a World Heritage Site

April 07, 2017

7 Apr 2017. NUS ecologist in collaboration with James Cook University, Australia have discovered a new species of hard coral on…

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New ways of making molecules

New ways of making molecules

April 03, 2017

3 Apr 2017. NUS chemists have developed a molecular transformation process for producing biologically useful compounds for pharmaceutical products. The pharmaceutical…

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Tool for predicting early readmission risk

Tool for predicting early readmission risk

March 27, 2017

27 Mar 2017. NUS clinician scientists have developed a web-based tool for predicting hospital readmission risk in Singapore. Some patients…

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Next generation fast proton imaging and fabrication

Next generation fast proton imaging and fabrication

March 22, 2017

22 Mar 2017. NUS physicists have designed and successively micro-fabricated a miniature ion beam source prototype, paving the way to…

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Targeting cell-surface GRP78 for cancer therapy

Targeting cell-surface GRP78 for cancer therapy

March 17, 2017

17 Mar 2017. NUS biologists have developed small peptides which are able to target cancer cells for anti-cancer therapeutics. Cancer is…

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Black holes with unusual horizons

Black holes with unusual horizons

March 13, 2017

13 Mar 2017. NUS physicists have found a new type of black hole that can exist in anti-de Sitter space, whose…

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Global data for declining bees

Global data for declining bees

March 08, 2017

8 Mar 2017. NUS biologists are assembling a comprehensive checklist of bee species and their distributions to assess pollinator declines. Myriad research publications…

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Role of oxygen in hydrogen formation

Role of oxygen in hydrogen formation

March 02, 2017

2 Mar 2017. NUS chemists have discovered that oxygen gas is vital for the alcohol dehydrogenation process at low temperatures. Hydrogen…

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Paying for clean air

Paying for clean air

February 23, 2017

23 Feb 2017. NUS ecologists used a survey-based method to study the economic impacts of trans-boundary haze. The economic impacts of trans-boundary…

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Low cost, scaleable method for producing 2-D polymer layers

Low cost, scaleable method for producing 2-D polymer layers

February 20, 2017

20 Feb 2017. NUS chemists have developed a method to make two-dimensional (2D) polymers with high energy storage performance for…

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Statistical inferences with monotone density ratio

Statistical inferences with monotone density ratio

February 16, 2017

16 Feb 2017. NUS mathematicians have developed effective methods for modelling real-life problems with monotone density ratio conditions. Statistical modelling…

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