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Most detailed observations of material orbiting close to a Black Hole
ESO's exquisitely sensitive GRAVITY instrument has added further evidence to the long-standing assumption that a supermassive black hole lurks in the centre of the...
Hubble captures the ghost of Cassiopeia
About 550 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia lies IC 63, a stunning and slightly eerie nebula. Also known as the ghost of...
Chemists opens the door to safer and less expensive X-ray imaging
Professor Liu Xiaogang and his team from the Department of Chemistry under the NUS Faculty of Science had developed novel lead halide perovskite nanocrystals...
The Pirate of the Southern Skies
FORS2, an instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has observed the active star-forming region NGC 2467 — sometimes referred to as the Skull...
Genomic analysis helps in discovery of unusual new bird species from Indonesia
A joint research team from the National University of Singapore (NUS) and Indonesian Institute of Science has described an unusual new songbird species. The...
Geometry of spacetime as a quantum information processing device
In the race for building a scalable quantum computer, devices using photons as a carrier of quantum information are in the front-runner. The reason...
Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found
An international team of astronomers using the VIMOS instrument of ESO’s Very Large Telescope have uncovered a titanic structure in the early Universe. This...
Lift off for world-first ultrasound levitation that bends around barriers
Researchers at the University of Sussex have become the first in the world to develop technology which can bend sound waves around an obstacle...
NUS researchers uncover new role of TIP60 protein in controlling tumour formation
Scientists from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new molecular pathway that...
NUS-led research team pioneers faster, cheaper and greener way to produce amino acids from plant-based waste
An international team of researchers led by Assistant Professor Yan Ning, who is from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National...
BUFFALO charges towards the earliest galaxies
The NASA/ESA Universe. The BUFFALO survey will observe six massive galaxy clusters and their surroundings. The first observations show the galaxy cluster Abell 370...
A Galactic Gem
This wonderful image shows the resplendent spiral galaxy NGC 3981 suspended in the inky blackness of space. This galaxy, which lies in the constellation...