by admin | Nov 14, 2024
Myriad soil organisms beneath our feet play a vital role in supporting ecosystem services and sustaining our lives, but they often receive less attention from scientists and the public compared to the more visible ‘star’ species. A new study has revealed just how...
by admin | Nov 13, 2024
At low tide, marine organisms are exposed to thermal extremes,” said Professor Gray A Williams, researcher at SWIMS and Professor in the School of Biological Sciences. “The rocks can heat up from around 28 degrees Celsius, which is when they are in seawater, to over...
by admin | Nov 23, 2023
The existence of dark matter (DM), the mysterious substance that makes up 80 per cent of the universe’s mass, was first reliably inferred in the 1930s, although not fully recognised until the 1970s. What particle makes up DM, however, remains an enigma. For decades,...
by admin | Nov 23, 2023
A proud native of Scotland, Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart comes to HKU after a remarkable career that has included time at top universities around the world, most recently at the renowned Northwestern University in the US. Retirement was looming, but Professor...
by admin | May 23, 2023
For years, data science was the purview of engineers and computer scientists, among them Professor Ma Yi, Chair Professor and Director of the HKU Musketeers Foundation Institute of Data Science (IDS) and an expert in computer vision. But recently it has reached a...
