Children undergoing radiotherapy often face intense fear and anxiety due to the intimidating environment of large machines, loud machine noise, and being alone in the treatment room. To combat this, a multidisciplinary team from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU), comprising experts from the Department of Health Technology and Informatics and the Industrial Centre, has leveraged cutting-edge mixed reality technology at the Hybrid Immersive Virtual Environment (HiVE) to create a more reassuring setting for children during radiotherapy preparation.

Urban navigation has undergone substantial technological advancements in recent decades, enhancing smart living environments while improving human life. With his ongoing research in this impactful field covering location-based services and navigation and positioning technologies, Dr HSU Li-Ta, Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, and Limin Young Scholar in Aerospace Navigation of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has received an unrestricted grant from Google to advance research in Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) and sensor fusion technologies.

Researchers report the reconciled mass balance of Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS) and its regions from 1996 to 2021 based on 16 independent solutions provided by scientists from 8 Chinese research institutions. This is the first publication of such collaborative research efforts, which is not included in previous publications of the Ice sheet Mass Balance Inter-comparison Exercise (IMBIE) team. The results show that AIS has lost a total ice mass of 3213±253 Gt during this period, an equivalent of 8.9±0.7 mm of Global Sea Level Rise.

It is necessary to explore soil evaporation characteristics in young apple orchards served by a combination of drip irrigation and mulching practice in water-limited regions.

This research investigates the molecular mechanisms by which SMAD2/3-SMYD2 and developmental transcription factors cooperate with cell-cycle inhibitors (CDKIs) to guide tissue formation in human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs). The study uncovers a dynamical coordination between lineage specification and cell-cycle progression, providing insights into developmental processes.

In a recent publication by Prof. Sihai Yang and Prof. Wei Shi in National Science Review, a robust metal-organic framework (NKU-300) with triangular channels decorated with crown ether has been reported to discriminate trace benzene from cyclohexane, giving an unprecedented selectivity of 8615(10) for their separation.

The team first noticed a novel authentication scheme proposed by Wang et al. for WBANs, which considered conditional privacy preservation.

An international team of scientists recently published a study highlighting the potential role of iron sulfides in the formation of life in early Earth’s terrestrial hot springs. According to the researchers, the sulfides may have catalyzed the reduction of gaseous carbon dioxide into prebiotic organic molecules via nonenzymatic pathways.