The Central Endocrine Hospital (CEH) and VNPT Group are collaborating to carry out a state-level scientific project on applying artificial intelligence (AI) to create new advances in the screening and diagnosis of thyroid cancer.

The VinFuture Prize will officially kick off its 2024 season with the nomination period open from 14:00 p.m. January 9 to 14:00 p.m. on April 17.

Policies need to be designed in a way to ensure benefits for academic researchers so they can live well and spend their time on research, and don’t have to sell themselves for food and clothing, experts say.

Beginning to code when he was nine years old, Nguyen Xuan Phong spent four years studying business administration at university. At first, he planned to become a businessman, but later realized that technology was his true dream.

The Vietnam Science and Technology Journalists’ Club has announced a list of 10 outstanding science and technology events of Vietnam in 2023.

Describing his life to help farmers reduce suffering due to food shortages, Professor Vo Tong Xuan has always been passionate about research into finding rice varieties adapted to climate change in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s AI-based software can translate less commonly used languages such as Lao, Thai, Khmer, Malaysian and Indonesian to Vietnamese and vice versa.

The US$3 million Grand Prize was awarded to four scientists for their inventions that help create a sustainable platform for green energy through production with solar cells and storage with Lithium-ion batteries.

Ha Thi Thanh Huong, 34, a lecturer at the International University (IU), has been named one of the winners of the 2023 Golden Globe Science and Technology Awards.

President Vo Van Thuong has highlighted the important mission of scientists in seeking global solutions for new, sustainable and humane development, amidst rapid changes and many risks and challenges facing the world.

Vietnam-made heat-reflective paint helps save 40 percent of energy consumed by cooling equipment, prevents fires and loss of fuel/volatile chemicals, and ensures energy security.

Bioplastics made of brewer’s grains have higher durability, water and heat resistance than plastics made of paper pulp and bagasse. The technology is expected to reduce environmental pollution.

The 2023 VinFuture Sci-Tech Week kicked off on December 18, bringing together leading scientists and experts in key technological domains, including semiconductor technology, precision medicine, green transportation infrastructure, and AI.

Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City has prepared two new radioactive drugs, saving cancer patients a trip to Singapore to have PET/CT scanning costing up to VND100 million.

Vietnam ranks third in terms of the number of researchers in the Republic of Korea (RoK), after China and India and above the US and Pakistan, according to a report released by the RoK Ministry of Science and ICT.

The device is compact, weighs about 200 grammes and has the size of a computer mouse.

Building smart cities in VN faces many challenges, although technology businesses have tried their best to accompany localities in orientation, planning and building, heard attendees at the VN-Asia Smart City Summit 2023.

Three outstanding female scientists, who have received the L’Oréal – UNESCO Science Awards for the Development of Women in Science 2023, speak about their potential research projects in the fields of materials science and life sciences.

They were selected based on their outstanding scientific research achievements, and the modernity, novelty, applicability and potential of their research projects. The prize is worth VNĐ150 million (US$6,100) for each scientist.

With its biodegradable bioplastics product made from organic waste and technology exclusively patented, BUYO Bioplastics became the champion of the National Innovation Technopreneur Contest TECHFEST Vietnam 2023.