by admin | Nov 21, 2022
Wearable devices like the Apple Watch can track your blood rate and blood oxygen levels and detect whether you fall. But to researchers of wearable devices, this is old hat. “Those kinds of devices were developed more than 10 years ago. Some researchers are still...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
The leaves of plants can spread under sunlight and fold in the cold. What if man-made materials could achieve the same response to environmental stimuli? A team from HKU’s Department of Mechanical Engineering has tested that question by mimicking the ability of the...
by admin | May 26, 2022
One of the problems with trying to research the hypothetical ‘primordial soup’ from which all life may have emerged is how to separate the elements which led to the first living cells being formed. Now, a research team has found that evaporation could facilitate...
by admin | May 25, 2022
A cross-disciplinary team has discovered that nanodiamonds (NDs) may be a highly effective agent in battling oral infections, a discovery which could open up new opportunities for improving oral health worldwide and provide a real alternative to the customary...
by admin | May 25, 2022
VACCINE BREAKTHROUGHSCurrent vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 have done well protecting people from severe illness and death, but some studies have shown that even vaccinated people may continue to carry quite high levels of the virus in their nose, a situation that may...
