by admin | May 18, 2026
160 years ago, Fyodor Dostoevsky dealt deftly with moral dilemma and death in his novel Crime and Punishment. Today, an HKU biologist unpacks the moral and environmental aspects of illegal wildlife trade in Crime and Pangolins: A Mammalian Murder Mystery, presenting...
by admin | Nov 19, 2025
Hong Kong has a long history as a centre of pearl farming, with Tai Po once considered a source of some of the finest pearls in China. But over the past century, pearl farming has fallen by the wayside. The Sino-Japanese war disrupted activity, then post-war Japanese...
by admin | May 14, 2025
A collaboration between researchers at HKU’s School of Biological Sciences and BIOPOLIS’ Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources (BIOPOLIS-CIBIO) in Portugal have discovered the genetic ‘switch’ that determines the red colour of a parrot’s...
by admin | May 14, 2025
Paleobiologists from HKU’s School of Biological Sciences recently completed a study on the sub-Antarctic zone in the Southern Ocean which revealed that temperature changes and food input have played distinct roles in shaping deep-sea ecosystems. The study was...
by admin | Nov 14, 2024
Myriad soil organisms beneath our feet play a vital role in supporting ecosystem services and sustaining our lives, but they often receive less attention from scientists and the public compared to the more visible ‘star’ species. A new study has revealed just how...
