by admin | May 17, 2023
When Professor Zhou Qiang took up deanship of the Faculty of Science last autumn, he arrived in a place with several stellar achievements. Six professorial staff were among the top one per cent of highly cited researchers in their fields in 2022 (according to...
by admin | May 15, 2023
Located on a rocky peninsula on the southside of Hong Kong, on the shores of Hong Kong’s only Marine Reserve, the Swire Institute of Marine Science (SWIMS) is one of the premiere coastal research centres in Asia. Recent expansion work has included state-of-the-art...
by admin | May 25, 2022
We are all familiar with the ubiquitous image of a hummingbird hovering in front of a flower as it drinks the nectar but scientists only proved they could in fact taste sweet in 2014. Now a new study has shown that songbirds are also able to distinguish sweet tastes...
by admin | Nov 19, 2021
While space at the Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum (HKBM) is limited, the collections are not, with nearly 10,000 specimens – animals, insects, marine life plants and fungi – on display to the public and around 20,000 specimens being readied for future inclusion....
by admin | Nov 18, 2021
Named UMAG STArts, the initiative comprises a series of programmes that link with the Museum’s permanent collections and highlight interdisciplinary studies of art history, novel technologies and conservation and their multiple crossover points within science,...
