Taking It to

the Next Level

HKU’s hosting of a major international forum on the Antarctic Survey telescopes is both an exciting mark of the University’s leading role within the international science community and a sign of the collaborative nature of research today.

Tales from the Flu Front

The H7N9 influenza virus has the potential to become a pandemic threat. If this does not happen, then Professor Guan Yi and his team may be the ones to thank.

Zebrafish Earn
Their Stripes

The Zebrafish Core Facility in Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine is proving an invaluable model for studying developmental biology and human diseases and is being used across multiple disciplines.

Closing
the Digital Divide

The digital divide is not only about the gap between schoolchildren with access to information and communications technology and those without, it’s also about how they use that technology.

Worth Its Weight in Steel

Around the world, carmakers are under pressure to reduce emissions from their vehicles. A new lightweight steel developed at HKU could make a difference by substantially reducing fuel consumption and thus emissions.

Big Physics,
Bigger Impact

The development of the Large Hadron Collider provides unique opportunities to answer fundamental questions in particle physics. A team from HKU is playing a role in the Large Hadron Collider’s ATLAS experiment and at the same time aiming to establish a particle physics group in Hong Kong with world-level impact.