Virtual Visibility

Now supporting more than 2,000 users within and outside the University of Hong Kong, Curios is a virtual teaching and learning tool that is open for teachers and students to use in facilitating their courses.The platform grew out of a decision by Mr Mathew Pryor,...

Reading Our Bodies

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...

In the Clover

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...

Out of the Blue

First coined more than a decade ago, the term Blue Carbon (BC) describes the disproportionately large stores of carbon in coastal vegetated ecosystems. In the years since, the role of BC in environmental enhancement has reached international prominence, and Hong...

From Landscape to Laptop

The Digital Arboretum (DA) is the brainchild of Mr Gavin Coates, Senior Lecturer at HKU’s Division of Landscape Architecture. “Teaching planting design, landscape technology and landscape representation are my specialities and, for all of these, taking groups of...