SINGAPORE – The success of a research effort is assessed through various factors, not just the potential to produce commercially viable outcomes. Singapore uses a “basket of parameters” to evaluate ...

SINGAPORE – Shoppers took home fewer plastic bags from supermarkets in the first month after they started being charged for them in July, according to the National Environment Agency (NEA).

Peter Shor didn’t set out to break the internet. But an algorithm he developed in the mid-1990s threatened to do just that. In a landmark paper, Shor showed how a hypothetical computer that exploited ...

A study using Swedish data finds that individuals in families that include a health professional are more likely to engage in preventive health care, live longer, and are less likely to suffer from ...