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HKU Study Shows That Control of Anthropogenic Atmospheric Emissions Can Improve Water Quality in China’s Coastal Seas

A new research led by MPhil student Miss Yu Yan Yau and supervised by Dr Benoit Thibodeau from the Department of Earth Sciences and the Swire Institute of Marine Science, the University of Hong Kong (HKU), highlighted the importance of reducing fossil fuel combustion not only to curb the trend of global warming, but also to improve the quality of China’s coastal waters.

Lessons From The Spanish Flu: Cities That Enacted Early Isolation, Other Restrictions Had Significantly Lower Rates Of Disease And Mortality

Large events are cancelled, restaurants and non-essential businesses are closed, and in many states, residents have been asked to shelter in place, all to limit the spread and impact of the COVID-19 virus.

HKU Researchers Develop A Novel Wastewater Treatment Process To Effectively Remove Health Hazardous Chemical Contaminants

Globally, there is a growing concern regarding the presence of trace emerging contaminants such as retinoids and oestrogenic endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) in aquatic environments.

Engineers 3D Print Soft, Rubbery Brain Implants

The brain is one of our most vulnerable organs, as soft as the softest tofu.

In Earth’s Largest Extinction, Land Die-Offs Began Long Before Ocean Turnover

The mass extinction at the end of the Permian Period 252 million years ago — one of the great turnovers of life on Earth — appears to have played out differently and at different times on land and in the sea, according to newly redated fossils beds from South Africa and Australia.