HKU holds inauguration ceremony for the New Cornerstone Science Laboratory
The laboratory of Professor Shuang Zhang, Chair Professor of the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, the University of Hong...
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Heat stress can be contagious
Heat-stressed fish embryos release chemical signals that change the appearance, behavior, and development of fish embryos that were not heat stressed, according to a study....
ICUconnect app helped clinicians address unmet palliative care needs across course of ICU care
Session: C16, The Road to Recovery: Improving Long-Term Outcomes After Critical Illness Date and Time: 9:24 a.m. ET, Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Location: WEWCC, Room...
HKU Physicist Dr Yi YANG selected as Physical Science Fellow in 2023 Asian Young Scientist Fellowship
The Asian Young Scientist Fellowship (AYSF) announces its inaugural Fellows for 2023. After a rigorous selection process, the AYSF has chosen twelve exceptional early-career scientists...
Global flows of toxic mercury
Almost half of mercury exposure comes from mercury embedded in global trade, according to an analysis of the global flows of the toxic metal. Mercury...
Researchers build bee robot that can twist
PULLMAN, Wash. – A robotic bee that can fly fully in all directions has been developed by Washington State University researchers.Credit: WSU PULLMAN, Wash. – A robotic...
How the COVID-19 pandemic impacted social cohesion
Did the pandemic bring societies together or increase the drifting apart? That was one of the central questions posed by the scientists. "The empirical knowledge...
Prescribed burns encourage foul-smelling invaders
Though prescribed burns reduce wildfire threats and even improve habitat for some animals, new research shows these fires also spread stinknet, an aptly named weed...
Viewers actually ‘binge-watch’ TV with a lot of self-control
If viewers sometimes feel guilty about binge-watching television programing, they really shouldn’t. Though its name implies impulsive behavior, binge-watching TV is a common activity planned...
What marsupials can teach us about brain development
Credit: Adobe Journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences DOI 10.1073/pnas.2208654120 Method of Research Experimental study Subject of Research Animals Article Title Cortical activity...
Open fully funded PhD positions at McGill Nanofactory, McGill University
Credit: By Changhong Cao.
Grant funds study of cannabis effects on HIV-infected brain tissue
Weill Cornell Medicine has been awarded a five-year, $11.6 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health to study...
Sexing chicken eggs by scent
Fertilized chicken eggs can be sexed by “sniffing” volatile chemicals emitted through the shell, according to new work by researchers at the University of California,...
IOS Press honors outgoing Editors-in-Chief I. Ralph Edwards and Marie Lindquist for their distinguished service to the International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine
Amsterdam, May 22, 2023 – The International Journal of Risk & Safety in Medicine (JRSM) would like to announce that Editors-in-Chief I. Ralph Edwards, Hon...
Flexing crystalline structures provide path to a solid energy future
A team of researchers at Duke University and their collaborators have uncovered the atomic mechanisms that make a class of compounds called argyrodites attractive candidates...
