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“To search for flammable ice, briefly speaking, is to look for solid gas (natural gas),” said Dr. Hsu Shu-Kun, Professor at the Department of Earth Sciences (DES) of NCU. As an island that lacks energy, Taiwan relies on import for 99% of its energy.

Sponsored by the GSSAP established by the MOST, Dr. Huang Chen-Han, Assistant professor of the Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering at NCU, visited the top medical schools and institutes of the world — HMS of Harvard University and MGH to conduct research, developing the iEAT, the medical device for allergens detection in the Internet of Things.

Based in the “Matrix Biology Laboratory” on the campus of NCU, Dr. Hsu and his team applied the world’s cutting-edge technology to analyzing characteristics of one single immunocyte in the tissues of kidney cancer, researching on new prevention mechanism and targeted therapy and finding fresh turning points for innovative translational research.

“The Great American Eclipse,” the total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017, caught the world’s attention and attracted more than 1.47 million Instagramers to click like on the photo of the eclipse on NASA’s Instagram page.

The discovery not only verified the general theory of relativity developed by Albert Einstein but also helped solve the riddle of formation of gold in the universe.This significant research achievement was written in the article “Illuminating Gravitational Waves: A Concordant Picture of Photons from a Neutron Star Merger” and published in the latest world-renowned scientific journal, Science.