by admin | May 21, 2026
When Professor Ngô Bảo Châu was in sixth grade in Hanoi, his father, a mathematics professor, was dismayed that his son was not advancing fast enough in his subject. By his own admission, Ngô could solve elementary school problems easily enough. But his father saw an...
by admin | Nov 19, 2025
An international team of astrophysicists led by Professor Lee Man-hoi from HKU’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and MPhil student Mr Cheng Ho-wan, have confirmed the existence of a planet in an unprecedented retrograde orbit in the nu Octantis (ν Oct)...
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 | May 2, 2025
In every waking moment, our eyes take in an enormous amount of information from our environment – people, places, things, animals, events. But how does our brain identify and organise these images, and single out the important ones?That question is of...
