Bulk Superconductors: Revolution or Red Herring?
The discovery of the so-called High Temperature Superconductors in 1987, which in bulk forms are able to conduct very high electrical currents and hence generate extremely high magnetic fields at liquid nitrogen temperatures, was heralded as the…
Documentary as a Form of Untold Stories or Stories That Needed to be Told
Documentary as a Form of Untold Stories or Stories That Needed to be Told
What Matters Now. The Next-Generation City: Healthy, Green, and Resilient
What will it take to design, build, and operate the next generation city?
The Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre and the Cambridge Rapid Response to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic
Join our guest speaker, Professor Ken Smith from the University of Cambridge as he uncovers the subject of "The Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre and the Cambridge rapid response to the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic" and gain a deeper understanding on immune…
CWAC LIVE Webinar Series #5- No Planet B – A Call To Climate Action
Happening this 28th of July, join us as we discover the importance of our environment and our community. This session features H.E. Dr Joachim Bergström, Ambassador of Sweden to Malaysia, sharing on the topic of “No Planet B – A Call to Climate…
Zero Tuberculosis
The duo lecture on Zero Tuberculosis: "Why eliminating tuberculosis matters for global health" by Professor Salmaan Keshavjee and "Insights from childhood tuberculosis" by Professor Mercedes Becerra (Harvard Medical School)
Emergence: Beyond the Theory of Everything
While one branch of physics works to understand the universe by breaking matter down to its fundamental constituents and their interactions (the quest for "the theory of everything"), in a complementary approach it is found that putting matter back…
Jeffrey Cheah Distinguished Speakers Series
This highly acclaimed platform returns on November 30th and we invite you to join us on this special occasion.
Making News and Shaping Views; Riding the Rollercoaster of the Digital Revolution
Disseminating news used to be managed exclusively by media hierarchies. The elites had control of the organisations and crucially the means of distribution. Readers and viewers were essentially a passive audience. But, now the digital revolution has…
Optimism in the Past, Pessimism in the Future?
Why do we tend to glorify the past and look to the future with pessimism?
How Quantum Mechanics Might Answer Life’s Biggest Questions
Quantum Mechanics is the most powerful and at the same time strangest theory in all of science. It underpins much of physics and chemistry, and without it we would not have developed modern electronics.
