The University of Hong Kong (HKU) has successfully secured the hosting rights for the 2028 Magnetospheres of Outer Planets (MOP) Conference. As the premier global symposium in space physics, MOP has been held biennially since the 1970s and will make its historic debut in Hong Kong in 2028, more than half a century after its inception. Jointly hosted by the Hong Kong Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (HKIAA) and the Laboratory for Space Research (LSR) at HKU, this landmark event marks a major milestone in establishing Hong Kong’s leadership in space and planetary sciences across the Asia-Pacific region and globally.

A study led by Professor Jimmy Jiujiu JIAO from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Professor Meng LI from Shenzhen University has identified microbial fermentation as the likely main pathway for ammonium production in sediments beneath the Pearl River Delta, helping to explain the region’s exceptionally high natural groundwater ammonium levels.

Two SUNY Potsdam geoscientists have been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to investigate the chemistry of ancient waters preserved in sedimentary rocks across Atlantic Canada, research that could shed new light on the evolution of life on land and the distribution of energy and mineral resources. 

A U of A study maps recoverable phosphorus in U.S. soil, manure and agricultural waste and charts a path toward supply resilience before domestic reserves are exhausted.

Scientists carbon-dated more than 7,500 marine fossils from ocean beds around the world and used that data to determine which environmental factors are most responsible for mixing together fossils from different time periods in the same stratum.

A research group led by University of Tsukuba has examined a fossil in Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, and identified it as the right sternal plate (part of the chest skeleton) of an iguanodontian dinosaur. The size of the sternal plate indicates that it belonged to a small individual with an estimated body length of approximately 3 meters. Since previously recovered iguanodontian specimens from the Upper Cretaceous in Japan appear to belong to larger individuals (exceeding 3 meters in body length), this discovery suggests that smaller iguanodontian individuals also inhabited coastal environments in East Asia.