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...
by admin | Nov 14, 2024
First-generation stars, referred to as Population III (or Pop III) stars, are believed to be the first objects that formed out of the pristine gas a few hundred million years after the Big Bang. Direct detection of Pop III stars has never been possible but a team from...
