by admin | May 21, 2026
A research team from the Department of Mechanical Engineering has developed a novel moisture-activated electricity generator (MEG) that generates electricity in an environmentally-friendly way, just utilising moisture from the air. And, unlike most current MEGs, the...
by admin | May 20, 2026
According to the US-based ClinicalTrials.gov, more than 40,000 new clinical trials are launched globally each year. Few are required to address their environmental impacts, but these impacts are not minor. A single clinical trial on the effectiveness of dapagliflozin...
by admin | Nov 19, 2025
Hong Kong has a long history as a centre of pearl farming, with Tai Po once considered a source of some of the finest pearls in China. But over the past century, pearl farming has fallen by the wayside. The Sino-Japanese war disrupted activity, then post-war Japanese...
by admin | Nov 14, 2024
“Our approach is novel in that we have demonstrated, for the first time, that time-series satellite-based multispectral data is nearly as effective as drone/airborne hyperspectral imaging for high-throughput foliar trait monitoring,” said Professor Wu Jin from the...
by admin | Nov 24, 2023
Carbon-heavy methane ranks high on the climate change blacklist, with a global warming potential that is more than 80 times that of carbon dioxide over a period of 20 years. It is also in abundant supply – the recent global increase in methane (CH4) is primarily...
