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In the latest World's Best Design Schools survey, the Master of Design (Design Strategies) programme of PolyU has been rated among the world's best "design thinking programmes".

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals including Cell Biology: Inner workings of extending cell life, Genetics: Reprogramming gene plays a role in cancer and Genetics: Variants associated with bone mineral density

Photosynthetic processes in an artificial system can be described accurately by a quantum physical theory

Intelligent search engines called PosMed and PosMed-plus make it easier for researchers to identify candidate genes for cloning

Press Release - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University is proud to have the largest number of International Academy for the Study of Tourism (IAST) members in any university worldwide.

Press Release - A review in Science this week outlines the main theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum simulation and emphasizes some of the challenges and promises of this fast-growing field.

Summaries of newsworthy papers Seismology: Measuring fault strength, Atmospheric chemistry: Reach for the clouds and Vive la resistance!

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University hosted a Forum on "School Recovery after the 512 Wenchuan earthquake" on 28 Sep to deepen the understanding of the general public of the difficulties and challenges faced by the quake-affected schools in Sichuan.

The good news is tougher soft body armour could be in the making. Researchers of the Faculty of Applied Science, found that natural rubber latex (NRL) coated fabrics are suitable to reduce injury, soreness or trauma from bullet shots or hit by hard objects. The NRL coated fabrics seems usable as new material to make soft body armour.

The virtual campus of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Second Life was opened on 25 September by Professor Timothy W. Tong, PolyU President, and Professor Suleyman Demokan, PolyU Vice President (Academic Development).

IDRC has joined forces with academic and research institutes in sub-Saharan Africa to train new scholars and repair a tattered academic infrastructure. These are vital steps in addressing the region's critical social challenges.

Women in Arab countries are making human rights history as they break down barriers to being treated as full citizens in their own countries. In the past few years, women in Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco married to foreigners have won the right to convey their citizenship to their children.

Summaries of newsworthy papers including: Photonics: Time-domain telescope, Immunology: Driving autoreactive cells to distraction, Physics: X-rays produced by laser-driven particle accelerator, Nature: Sex chromosome’s role in species diversification, Geoscience: Big breaks during Wenchuan earthquake and Neuroscience: Attracted to punishment

Muon research at the RIKEN–RAL Muon Facility could lead to commercially viable fusion technology for clean energy generation

Plants biosynthesize a wide variety of compounds by processes that involve enzymes...

Porous coordination polymers that strongly adsorb polar guest molecules can be made using a ligand with separated positive and negative charges

As the number of children who have mobile phones has risen to 40% of elementary school students, 70% of middle school students, and 90% of high school students, e-Safety Education is vital in order to protect children from the myriad mobile phone dangers to which they are exposed.

World trade has been expanding and driving economic growth in many countries over the past several decades. The trade value of the world as a whole increased more than eight-fold from 1980 to 2007, to approximately 14 trillion dollars.

An investigation of developing embryos reveals that tissue folding and movement is the key to the turtle’s unusual body plan

The exhibition features the video installation by London-based Singaporean artist Erika Tan, to be exhibited simultaneously at the NUS Museum, and selected materials from the UP Vargas Museum art and library collections.

A fossil of a bird-like dinosaur with four wings has been discovered in northeastern China. The specimen bridges a critical gap in the transition from dinosaurs to birds, and reveals new insights into the origin evolution of feathers.

Summaries of newsworthy papers include A safe space for humanity, El Niño in a warmer world, Speeding on thinning ice, White dwarf’s slow spin is not just skin-deep, Direct RNA sequencing, Quantifying the carbon cycle, Bell’s inequality violated in solid-state system, Irreversible evolution

Press Release - Japanese researchers have unlocked the secret to ABA, a single plant hormone which play a key role to developing stress resistant crops.

A neuroscience research jointly conducted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Chinese Academy of Science has led to the discovery of the novelty detection mechanism in the gateway to the cerebral cortex.

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature research journals - Genetics: Variants in prostate cancer, Medicine: Losing weight without too much energy, Geoscience: Deltas in decline, Chemical Biology: HCV lost in translation, Cell Biology: Stopping Listeria spread and Neuroscience: While you were sleeping.

Several regions of the primate brain’s prefrontal cortex have distinct functions in high-level cognitive tasks

Unusual behavior in an exotic isotope of neon challenges the traditional foundations of nuclear physics

Summaries of newsworthy papers in Nature and Nature Research Journals including: Genetics: Hepatitis C treatment response, Climate: Understanding the Antarctic transition, Geoscience: Well-behaved geomagnetic field and Neuroscience: Itching to quit

Hybrid mice help researchers zoom in on a gene with a potential role in controlling allergic responses

Imaging electron movements that cause chemical reactions is now possible by using high-speed lasers