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What Employers Who Hire Graduate Engineers Really Want
Recruiters reveal how chemical engineering graduates can stand out in applications, interviews and beyond BREAKING into industry can feel daunting. To help graduates understand what employers value most, we asked recruiters and hiring managers...

University of Doha for Science and Technology opens admissions for Winter 2026
University of Doha for Science and Technology (UDST) has announced that admissions for the Winter 2026 semester are now open, offering a wide selection of Master's programs, in addition to a select number of Bachelor's programs. The available...

Science Journalism in Ghana: Navigating AI and Misinformatio...
In November 2024, journalists, fact checkers, technologists and media practitioners converged in Accra, Ghana for the Africa Facts Summit 2024, held at Ablekuma, Accra, Ghana. The gathering brought together participants from across Africa, united...

Zangezur Corridor to elevate economic cooperation between Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan to a new level – Kazakh political scientist
Thanks to the active political dialogue and mutual trust between Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan, trade and economic cooperation between the two countries is developing dynamically, Kazakh political scientist Almat Tokein said in an interview with APA....

New Health Insights From Long-Lived People
Even though medical care has advanced significantly in recent decades, and the average human lifespan enjoyed a steady rise for a very long time, it seems we are starting to reach the limits of human longevity; around one in 6,000 people lives for...

Avignon Clinic SM Pampanga synergizes Medical Aesthetics and Longevity
Prepare yourself for a new level of beauty, pampering and self-care! Whoever you are, Avignon will redefine beiaty and longevity, in total, holistic well-being inside and out, one that evokes all your senses. Avignon Clinic is a full-service...
Challenging economic conditions raise the bar for nascent biotech startups as funding dries up
The pullback in science and tech funding in the US has cooled investor sentiment for now, but observers say more money may eventually flow into Asia and Europe [SINGAPORE] As investors turn more cautious amid the uncertain economic climate,...

Green crackers are cleaner, not clean: Here’s the science behind the sparkle
Written by Dr. Wazeem NishadGreen crackers 2025: When scientists at the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI) developed green crackers, it marked an important step towards...

JPL's rough ride: Can California's shining star of space science recover?
Designing the system that would bring a slice of Mars back to Earth at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory — the Southern California lab that pioneered American rocketry and the scientific exploration of our solar system — was her dream job. As she...

How Eswatini Has Sat on E100 Million Pharmaceutical Plant for 8 Years
Reading Time: 3 minutesEight years ago, Eswatini was on the verge of establishing its first pharmaceutical manufacturing plant near the Royal Science and Technology Park (RSTP) in Nokwane. The ambitious E100 million project aimed to reduce the...

Radiomics and 3D Deep Learning Predict Pancreatic Cancer
In the relentless fight against pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest malignancies with notoriously poor survival rates, a groundbreaking study has emerged to offer new hope. Scientists have developed an innovative prognostic model that merges...

Digital Interventions May Help to Reach More Suicidal People
Decades of investigating the phenomenon of suicide within the frame of medical research have not reduced suicide in the world. I believe that understanding suicide as a medical pathology is a misconception. The concept of the natural course of a...

Allergen-specific mRNA vaccine shows efficacy against allergy
Immune Researchers from Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and collaborating institutions in the U.S. have developed a novel approach using allergen-encoding mRNA encapsulated in lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) for both therapy and...
Music could help ease pain from surgery or illness, scientists say
In a hospital recovery unit at UC San Diego Health, nurse Rod Salaysay uses not only medical instruments like a stethoscope and thermometer — but also his guitar and ukulele. Salaysay helps patients manage post-surgery pain by offering live music...

Pharmacists Accuse FG Of Favoring Doctors, Demand Equity In Health Sector
1 Kazeem Awojoodu The Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria (PSN) has called on the Federal Government to urgently address what it describes as longstanding favoritism towards medical doctors in the administration of the country’s health sector. PSN...

From forbidden fruit to medical cure
Growing acceptance of psychedelics in treating some mental illnesses Psychiatry is currently at a turning point as a new potential trend has been emerging in Cypriot mental healthcare. While still strictly illegal in Cyprus, elsewhere psychedelics...

Cyprus and Oman to sign MoU on healthcare and medical cooperation
Health Minister Michalis Damianos will sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with his Omani counterpart, Dr Hilal bin Ali Al Sabti, covering cooperation in healthcare, medical and pharmaceutical sciences, and health innovation. According to an...

New online Pitt program to give students expertise of AI in health data science
Graduates of the University of Pittsburgh’s new online Bachelor of Science in Health Informatics will have a leg up on the growing industry and artificial intelligence, especially as the technology continues to advance, Pitt officials say. In...

Retinal Implant Restores Central Vision in Advanced AMD Patients, Pitt-Led Study Finds
A groundbreaking breakthrough in vision restoration has emerged from the realm of advanced medical technology, promising hope for millions affected by geographic atrophy due to age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Published recently in the...
Death becomes him: Donating his brain, whole body to medical science
SINGAPORE – “When I die, I want my body to keep giving.” That was how 36-year-old Luo Chen Jun introduced himself. The former civil servant became determined to donate his body to medical science while volunteering with children with cancer....