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A public research university in Hong Kong known for engineering, science, and technology research across fields like materials, sustainability, and biotech.
Physicists at HKUST and the University of Tokyo predict that heat turns nearly every sharp phase boundary in classical pyrochlore spin ice into a crossover. The result is a theory of model magnets, and its tie to high-pressure water ice runs through a simplified model.
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HKUST-led researchers lifted cold-seep clams 0.5 m off sulfide-rich mud and saw their symbionts suppress sulfide-oxidation genes and raise thiosulfate ones. Under milder limitation the hosts held symbiont numbers steady, a second buffer the team ties to seep stability.
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The technique injects a 0-9 MHz signal into non-linear analog parts so audio too faint to read passively becomes capturable by nearby gear. It has been demonstrated on Sony, HP and Philips hardware.
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A Hong Kong lab kept 400 watts and a 41-kelvin span steady across a million cycles of its TiNiCuCo refrigerant. Anyone evaluating solid-state cooling now has a durability figure to quote back at a vendor.
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Jishen Qiu's team let Mars-like cold and vacuum do the hardening, printing cork-sized domes with the compressive strength of low-grade concrete. The imported gelatin and yeast are what the method still costs.
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HKUST and CUHK researchers report in Nature Communications that thermodynamic timing lets amplification and CRISPR detection share a single sealed tube, reaching 1 aM in 30 minutes. The announcement leaves out the clinical denominator.
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Cities that write emission plans alone are, on this evidence, optimising a number that is partly set elsewhere. The size of that outside share is modelled rather than measured, which changes what a mayor can do with it.
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