Biodiversity and heritage at the Lee Kong Chian Museum

On 28 April, the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum at NUS officially opened and both Kenneth and Lesley-Anne, being biology a…

Forget me not

I love the start of a new school year. It's always so full of hope and symbolises fresh beginnings: Since my kid is one year …

JC or poly? Andre decides

Last month during the time of the Focus on the Family debacle , we were at home discussing the thorny issue of relationship progr…

Mars and Venus

The other day, I asked Andre what topic he was studying in school for science. He told me human reproduction and then followed it…

J&J medical to launch insulin pumps in India by 2009 end

J ohnson and Johnson Medical India, plans to introduce its ‘insulin pump’ for diabetes patients in the country by end of this ye…

India, Russia to develop new hypersonic cruise missile

India and Russia have agreed to develop and induct a new hypersonic version of their joint venture 290-kilometre-range BrahMos cr…

NASA discovers giant ring around Saturn

The Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered the biggest but never-before-seen ring around the planet Saturn, NASA’s Jet Propulsio…

Blackburn, 2 others share Nobel Medicine

STOCKHOLM: Americans Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak on Monday won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicin…