NTU Singapore has launched the NBS Global Leaders program – the University’s sixth signature program – to give students a ‘supercharged’ business education that lays the foundation for impactful global careers, and nurture them into confident leaders who can thrive in today’s complex business landscape. 

Offered by the Nanyang Business School (NBS) at NTU, the program is open to business and/or accountancy students in the new academic year that begins in August 2025.

A key highlight of the program is a semester-long exchange at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, one of the world’s best business schools where students can enhance their cultural intelligence, forge international connections, and develop a global mindset. 

In their final year, students will work in teams to implement a meaningful initiative that tackles a pressing need for a chosen community with $10,000 in funding, such as starting a social enterprise or developing a new product that addresses a community need.

Other features of the programme include local and overseas internships, a structured six-month mentorship programme from top executives, and curated workshops to help students sharpen their business acumen and strengthen their soft skills. 

Researchers at Tel Aviv University have developed a new platform using polymeric nanoparticles to deliver drug pairs to specific cancer types, including skin cancer and breast cancer. The researchers explain that having both drugs arrive at the tumor site together significantly amplifies their therapeutic effects and safety profiles.

Published in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers have created realistic, skin-like replicas made of Ecoflex, a type of silicone rubber that can potentially serve as a platform to evaluate risks of bacterial infections from intravenous catheters and test wearable sensors, among other biomedical applications. The study found that EcoFlex-based skin replicas can be engineered to mimic actual skin textures, wettability, and elasticity, simulating the conditions where bacteria grow and adhere.

Medical artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed rapidly over the years, driven by novel foundation and large language models. This is highly promising for transforming medical education and healthcare delivery. Now, a review in the Chinese Medical Journal by researchers from China highlights the prospects and points to challenges related to data collection, analysis, and privacy. It emphasizes the importance of effective collaboration among various stakeholders to ensure a bright future for AI in healthcare.

One of the biggest mysteries in science – dark energy – doesn't actually exist, according to researchers looking to solve the riddle of how the Universe is expanding. For the past 100 years, physicists have generally assumed that the cosmos is growing equally in all directions. They employed the concept of dark energy as a placeholder to explain unknown physics they couldn't understand, but the contentious theory has always had its problems. Now a team of physicists and astronomers at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand are challenging the status quo, using improved analysis of supernovae light curves to show that the Universe is expanding in a more varied, "lumpier" way.