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MetLife Joins Forces with Global Citizen to Combat Extreme Poverty

MetLife Joins Forces with Global Citizen to Combat Extreme Poverty

New York — At the 2025 Global Citizen Festival in Central Park, MetLife announced a major three-year partnership…

Oct 7, 20252 min read
Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imagingdyes

Chemists create red fluorescent dyes that may enable clearer biomedical imagingdyes

CAMBRIDGE, MA — MIT chemists have designed a new type of fluorescent molecule that they hope could be…

Oct 7, 20256 min read
Body of Korean Mountaineer PARK Airlifted to Kathmandu

Body of Korean Mountaineer PARK Airlifted to Kathmandu

Kathmandu, October 6 — The body of 46-year-old Korean national Taejun Park has been airlifted to Kathmandu through…

Oct 6, 20251 min read
Finding treasures with physics: The fingerprint matrix

Finding treasures with physics: The fingerprint matrix

How do you find objects buried in sand or hidden in thick fog? A team from the Institut…

Oct 6, 20255 min read
Volcanic ash may enhance phytoplankton growth in the ocean over 100 km away

Volcanic ash may enhance phytoplankton growth in the ocean over 100 km away

A research group in Japan has suggested that ash released from volcanic eruptions on Nishinoshima Island—part of Japan’s…

Oct 6, 20254 min read
Researchers develop fat-like nanoparticles to treat fatty liver disease

Researchers develop fat-like nanoparticles to treat fatty liver disease

Researchers from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), have developed a…

Oct 6, 20254 min read

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Students’ Ideas on Palm Oil Industry Sustainability wins second prize in the Sustainability Challenge, Malaysia

Students’ Ideas on Palm Oil Industry Sustainability wins second prize in the Sustainability Challenge, Malaysia

ByAmrita TuladharNov 29, 20153 min read

The National University of Malaysia has won second prize in a competition open to university students aimed at developing innovative ideas on sustainability of the palm oil industry.

UW connects to UN climate event

UW connects to UN climate event

ByAmrita TuladharNov 25, 20153 min read

Madison will have a unique window on COP21 – the catchier name for the 21st session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate…

Richard B. Kaner selected as 2015 MRS Medalist

Richard B. Kaner selected as 2015 MRS Medalist

ByAmrita TuladharNov 24, 20153 min read

Richard B. Kaner, University of California, Los Angeles, has been selected to receive the 2015 Materials Research Society (MRS) Medal.

Jacob Klein Selected for 2015 David Turnbull Lectureship Award

Jacob Klein Selected for 2015 David Turnbull Lectureship Award

ByAmrita TuladharNov 22, 20154 min read

The Materials Research Society’s (MRS) David Turnbull Lectureship Award recognizes the career of a scientist who has made outstanding contributions to understanding materials phenomena and properties through research, writing, and…