Money down the Drain

Hong Kong’s water strategy is simple: it doesn’t really have one. Two scholars are investigating the causes and consequences as part of a multi-city project on water use and policy in global cities.

Sound and Vision

Advances in the speed and image quality of ultrasound technology are enabling linguistic experts and speech and hearing scientists to ask new questions about how infants learn to articulate speech and why some experience difficulties.

Is All Fair in Love and War?

Cooperation between enemies during war is an anomaly but one that is not as unusual as you might think. Ethics during warfare has long been debated, and now there are new area for discussion – drones and terrorism.

Deciphering Protein Interactions

A chemical tool has been developed to study protein interaction within a cell, giving hope for understanding the disorders in cellular networks that can spark severe diseases such as cancer and Alzheimers.

The Science and Fiction of Antioxidants

A whole industry of health supplements and food marketing has sprung up around the idea that antioxidants can prevent cancer. Unfortunately, the promise has not held up in clinical trials. New research explains why and shows how antioxidants may in fact promote cancer.

Minority Report

The first ever comprehensive report on the status of ethnic minorities in Hong Kong is shining a light on how the city has systematically neglected this group, and is making the Government sit up and take notice.

A Gene of Productivity

Botanists in the School of Biological Sciences have uncovered a technology to make plants grow faster, and their discovery has implications for alleviating climate change, reducing food shortages and enhancing the production of biofuel.