Beaches won’t go extinct but tough decisions ahead
A claim half the world’s beaches could be extinct by the turn of the century is being disputed by an international team of coastal scientists including Associate Professor Giovanni Coco.
Unintended methane release from UK shale gas site equivalent to 142 trans-Atlantic flights
Fracking operations at a site in Blackpool, UK, have caused an unintended release of methane gas into the atmosphere...
The flu, a cold, allergies or COVID-19? How to decipher symptoms
Let’s say you have a runny nose, headache and cough. Are they signs of COVID-19 or just a run-of-the-mill common cold?
High blood pressure and its drug treatment unlikely to increase entry of COVID-19 virus...
Fears that people with high blood pressure are more at risk from severe Covid-19 because it is easier for the virus to enter their cells and tissues have been laid to rest...
Drug-resistant hospital bacteria persist even after deep cleaning, genomic study reveals
Scientists have used genome sequencing to reveal the extent to which a drug-resistant gastrointestinal bacterium can spread within a hospital...
University strong performer in US News rankings
University continues strong performance in prestigious American rankings which rank universities from 86 countries on academic research and reputation.
Back to the future of climate
Hot and humid: Using minerals from ancient soils, ETH researchers are reconstructing the climate that prevailed on Earth some 55 million years ago.
‘Mini-lungs’ reveal early stages of SARS-CoV-2 infection
‘Mini-lungs’ grown from tissue donated to Cambridge hospitals has provided a team of scientists from South Korea and the UK with important insights into how COVID-19 damages the lungs.
How Stem Cells Choose their Careers
In the laboratory of Marianne Bronner, Albert Billings Ruddock Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering, researchers focus on a particular population of stem cells...
Kellogg-HKUST EMBA Sets Unprecedented Record of No.1 for Ten Times
The Executive MBA (EMBA) Program, jointly offered by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Kellogg School of Management...