
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.

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"