Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) will house the first two Max Planck Centres in Southeast Asia, the Max Planck – Singapore Centre for Data-Driven Chemistry and the Max Planck – NTU Singapore Centre for Biocultural Worlding.

These centres are flagship collaborative research initiatives between the Max Planck Society (MPG) in Germany and leading international research institutions. They serve as hubs of scientific excellence, bringing together top researchers from around the world to address frontier questions across diverse disciplines.

The Max Planck – Singapore Centre for Data Driven Chemistry aims to study how the complex volume of chemical research data can be digitalised and analysed effectively to better understand chemical processes and shed light on new reactions.

The Max Planck – NTU Singapore Centre for Biocultural Worlding will study how the close connection between nature and human cultures shape the future of our planet, and what kinds of knowledge and approaches are needed to respond effectively.

Antimicrobial resistance is becoming a global burden in human health and food production, so affordable new materials are needed to overcome this growing problem.

To answer the call, a multidisciplinary research team led by Flinders University with UK experts has discovered a novel solution for safe and effective use in antimicrobial and antifungal applications.

Massive blooms of Sargassum seaweed that have inundated coastlines across the Atlantic since 2011 likely originate off the coast of West Africa—forming years before they are visible and overturning long-standing assumptions about where these events begin.

Few concepts in physics are as familiar, yet as enigmatic, as time. In Einstein’s theory of relativity, time is not absolute: its passage depends on motion and gravity. But when combined with quantum physics, this relativistic form of time becomes even more counterintuitive. According to quantum theory, the flow of time itself may exist in a genuine quantum superposition, ticking faster and slower at the same time. A new paper by physicists at Stevens Institute of Technology shows that this striking possibility may soon be tested in real life.