The healthcare sector has played a marginal role in U.S.-China relations, but that is beginning to change. China has become the world’s top producer of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and inert substances, as well as a significant exporter of medical products. U.S. drug companies and distributors are sourcing a large share of ingredients and finished …
Remember in “Star Wars” when Luke Skywalker deflects lasers from a floating orb with his lightsaber? Google and NASA are planning a floating sphere. The floating robots, or SPHERES (Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites) will roam around the International Space Station equipped with Google’s Project Tango technology. There are three SPHERES currently aboard …
Since his election in 2008, Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou has presided over uneven growth and has had to deal with some of the lowest popularity polls in Taiwan’s political history. Ma now has to defuse tensions after students occupied the legislature in Taipei to protest his latest proposal, a deal with Beijing to open Taiwan’s …
Singapore researchers came up with the one-step method to grow and transfer high-quality graphene on silicon and other stiff substrates. This promises the use of graphene in high-value areas where no technique currently exists to grow and transfer graphene with minimal defects for use in semiconductors. Prof Loh, who is also a Principal Investigator with …