
High UK visa costs deter international scientists and engineers
World 16:56 15/04/2025LONDON -- It took Ed Roberts over a year to find a senior scientist to work at his cancer research laboratory in Scotland, a delay he blames on high UK visa costs that made it harder to attract international workers.

Scientists produce painstaking wiring diagram of a mouse's brain
World 12:29 10/04/2025WASHINGTON -- Neuroscientists have produced the largest wiring diagram and functional map of a mammalian brain to date using tissue from a part of a mouse's cerebral cortex involved in vision, an achievement that could offer insight into how the human brain works.

Vietnamese scientists win Asia Innovation Award for work on water pollution
Vietnam News 17:12 11/11/2021A group of Vietnamese scientists scored the Best Innovation Award, which gives each winner JPY3 million ($26,300)

Five Vietnamese among world’s top 10,000 scientists
Vietnam News 09:37 26/10/2021The list was announced by a team of researchers from Stanford University

Hanoi-born physicist becomes first Vietnamese recipient of prestigious Dirac Medal
Education 16:04 10/08/2018The 49-year-old scientist is a professor at the University of Chicago, the U.S.

Stephen Hawking: a brief history of genius
World 11:15 14/03/2018'My goal is simple,' he once said. 'It is complete understanding of the universe'

British scientist Stephen Hawking dead at age 76
World 11:12 14/03/2018He passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning at his home in Cambridge

Vietnamese scholar ranked among Asia’s top scientists
Education 15:04 27/10/2017She was praised for research in biofuel

Vietnamese female scientists succeed in low-cost groundbreaking eye research
Vietnam News 11:22 09/03/2015Fruitful low-cost, pioneering research conducted by a group of female scientists in Hanoi earned the team a scientific research award on Saturday and promises an effective new treatment for people with eye defects or damage

Exhibit of int’l scientists ongoing in Vietnam capital (photos)
Travel 16:08 19/07/2014An exhibit which showcases photos capturing the everyday moments of international scientists is running in Hanoi until July 30.

Nobel for trio who took chemistry to cyberspace
World 22:00 09/10/2013Martin Karplus, a US-Austrian citizen, Michael Levitt, a US-British citizen, and Arieh Warshel of the US and Israel were honoured "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems"