Science

Global AIDS programme at a crossroads

3 hours 52 min ago

US Congress unlikely to increase funding for five-year plan, which expires this year

Exploding meteorite may have sealed fate of mammoths

3 hours 57 min ago

NEW YORK — A giant meteorite that exploded in the Earth’s atmosphere may have triggered the extinction of ice age animals such as the woolly mammoths, scientists have claimed.

Molecule from breast milk protein suppresses tumours

By Zara Zhuang -

21 May

SINGAPORE — A molecule created from a protein present in human breast milk has been shown to have tumour-suppressing abilities, according to scientists from Nanyang...

Curiosity rover drills into second Martian rock

21 May

PASADENA (California) - NASA’s Curiosity rover drills again.

Russian space mice return to Earth

20 May

MOSCOW - A Russian capsule carrying mice, lizards and other small animals returned to Earth yesterday (May 20) after spending a month in space for what scientists said was the...

Massive asteroid to fly past Earth this month

18 May

HOUSTON - An asteroid nine times larger than the QE2 is due to sail past the Earth later this month.

Most scientists say man responsible for climate change

17 May

WASHINGTON — A survey of thousands of peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals has found 97.1 per cent agreed that climate change is caused by human activity.

NTU and SP develop a life-saving and economic water-filter system

Poly students develop S$11 water filter

By Zara Zhuang -

17 May

SINGAPORE — Singapore Polytechnic (SP) students have developed a water filtration cartridge that costs a mere S$11 and can last up to two years. Their work was under the...

NASA telescope’s planet-hunting days may be over

16 May

CAPE CANAVERAL (Florida) - NASA’s first telescope dispatched to hunt for Earth-like planets that may support life elsewhere in the universe has lost use of its positioning...