Public research university in Hong Kong and one of Asia's leading institutions, with strong programs spanning medicine, science, and engineering.
University of Hong Kong researchers found urban vegetation more resilient than surrounding rural vegetation in 78% of 751 cities across 109 countries. The gap widened between 2001 and 2022, though the authors say the study does not establish irrigation as the cause.
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Einstein Probe saw a likely neutron star merger shine in soft X-rays for nearly 10 minutes after a 0.4-second gamma-ray burst. Its team argues gamma-ray detectors alone may have missed this phase in earlier mergers, a case that so far rests on one event.
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Simulations by Min Long and colleagues show the graviton mode of fractional quantum Hall fluids persists in fractional Chern insulators. That makes it a candidate signature for lattice phases built without a strong magnetic field, although so far it has been found only in simulation.
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Gartner found 72% of CIOs at break-even or worse on AI and expects more than 40% of agentic projects to be canceled by 2027 on cost. A platform founder argues both figures show that every new agent rebuilds the same plumbing.
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Physicists at HKU and Beijing Normal University derived lensing predictions straight from a three-dimensional wave simulation. On one well-studied quasar, the image positions came out closer to the data than the models they compared against.
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Reports put BYD, Xiaomi and CATL on the list for the summit on the 24th while OpenAI's Sam Altman and Greg Brockman attend the state dinner. Analysts quoted by the South China Morning Post read the missing AI founders two different ways.
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OpenAI and Anthropic want Washington and Beijing to negotiate a pace for frontier AI development. Trump's answer arrived on Truth Social on Sept. 14, and China's Foreign Ministry called the U.S. debate fear-mongering the same day.
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Researchers in Hong Kong and Georgia paired blood measurements with a Mendelian randomization arm. The male estimate survived where the female one stayed null. Neither arm looked at anyone taking the supplement.
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A visible-light [2+2] on acyclic aza-1,5-dienes beats the rule of five on electronics alone. The switch has to buy back roughly 2.3 kcal/mol, and then survive a strain penalty.
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In situ electron microscopy shows elastic elongation of 11.3% in single-crystal silicon and 8.9% in diamond comes purely from reversible lattice displacement, with no defects or phase change.
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A June SFC proposal would widen retail access to a pool McKinsey sizes at about US$100 billion. The binding constraint is reporting, liquidity and the intermediaries who must explain both.
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