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 | Nov 21, 2022
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...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
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...
by admin | Nov 21, 2022
Hong Kong and southern China produce more than 30 per cent of the world’s edible oysters, largely using a species endemic to Hong Kong (Crassostrea hongkongensis) that is popularly called the Hong Kong oyster, as well as indigenous aquaculture practices that have been...
