Scientists use Einstein’s equations to reveal what came before the Big Bang

Some of the hardest questions in cosmology begin where the usual math gives up. Push Einstein’s theory far enough back toward ...
The Straits Times

UN food agencies seek $260 million to shield 8.8 million people from El Nino

ROME – The United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) on June 18 appealed for US$202 million (S$260 million) to help protect 8.8 million people across 22 ...
The Straits Times

‘Some flourish while others struggle’: NIE study finds five different paths of lower-income students

SINGAPORE – A local study has found that secondary school students from lower-income families are not a homogeneous group held back by a lack of resources. Researchers from the National Institute of ...
IEEE

Method for Fused Phase and PCA Direction Based on a SIFT Framework for Multi-Modal Image Matching

Abstract: The high noise and local deformation of multi-modal images reduce the accuracy of scale invariant feature transform (SIFT) image matching. To solve this problem, a new method based on the ...
IEEE

Robust Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping for Multibaseline SAR Interferograms: A Two-Stage Programming Approach

Abstract: Multibaseline 2-D phase unwrapping (PU) is a critical step for the multibaseline synthetic aperture radar interferometry. Compared with the single-baseline PU, the multibaseline PU does not ...