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Purple crab mania!

The recently published revision of Insulamon from Palawan by Dr Hendrik Freitag in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology has been garnering quite a fair bit of attention in popular media and the news! Insulamon is endemic to Greater Palawan and the … Continue reading

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What Dinosaurs and kiam chye-looking Reefs have in Common

What Dinosaurs and kiam chye-looking Reefs have in Common Bridgette See Professor Peter Ng leans in and, in a hushed conspiratorial tone, goes: “To be a successful museum, other than having a good endowment, it must have… dinosaurs.”He pauses dramatically, … Continue reading

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Crabs, Cliffs and Chicken Rice (Bemuse, July-September 2011)

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Raffles Museum in NUS’ Giving Report, 2010/2011

Undergraduate Lee Bee Yan and Graduate student Marcus Chua were the poster girl and boy for Raffles Museum in the latest issue of NUS Giving Report, 2010/2011. To help us in our endeavour to build the new natural museum , … Continue reading

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The SAFE index – a novel approach to measure relative species threat

DBS alumnus Reuben Clements Gopalasamy is currently pursuing his PhD at James Cook University. He has just published a paper proposing a new approach to determining  which endangered species have a higher likelihood of bouncing back from the brink of extinction. Congratulations, … Continue reading

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“Castrated” Spiders Are Better Fighters, Study Says – National Geographic

Photograph courtesy Matjaž Kuntner Two publications have been published from the project in 2009 supported by RMBR fellowship to Dr Matjaz Kuntner from Slovenia. One of the paper published in Animal Behaviour is featured in National Geographic Daily News. Click … Continue reading

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Singaporean spiders spit venomous glue, work together, eat each other (Discover Magazine Blogs/Not Exactly Rocket Science)

Discover Magazine is an American science magazine that publishes articles about science, technology and the future for a general audience. Discover Magazine also features different scientific blogs on its website, one of which is “Not Exactly Rocket Science” managed by … Continue reading

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INNOVATION featuring RMBR

INNOVATION is a world class publication highlighting the recent work of Singapore-based researchers, their collaborations with external organisations, as well as the latest breakthroughs in science, technology and medicine from around the world. The magazine’s readers include researchers from national … Continue reading

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ONE: The Raffles Institution Alumni Magazine Featuring Prof Peter Ng

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A Bag of Bones – A National Heritage and a Lesson for Humanity?

“A former colleague was the inspiration for the title  “A Bag of Bones”. We met for dinner and as soon as our greetings were exchanged, she exclaimed” 46 million dollars for a bag of bones? I am impressed you can … Continue reading

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