The HKU Robocon team from the Faculty of Engineering at The University of Hong Kong (HKU) represented Hong Kong and won the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union’s Asia-Pacific Robot Contest 2026 (ABU Robocon 2026). The team triumphed over university teams from 15 countries and regions, including Japan, India, Malaysia, and Vietnam, marking its first-ever victory in this prestigious international competition.

The University of Hong Kong (HKU) organised the Asian Science Camp 2026 (ASC 2026 or the Camp) on campus from August 2 to 8, 2026, bringing together over 300 pre-collegiate and college students from nearly 30 countries and regions. In a historic first for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the seven-day programme has now concluded successfully, providing participants with an inspiring week of scientific learning, meaningful cultural exchange, and engagement with world-class experts, among whom were several Nobel Laureates.

You can now get glossy, car-paint-quality color from a coating that contains no pigment at all. The Kobe University development makes non-fading structural color applicable to complex surfaces at scale, fixes angle-dependent color and allows for applying protective layers for real-world use.

Scientists from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the United States have discovered how blood cells release an important signalling fat called sphingosine-1-phosphate, or S1P, into the bloodstream.

Scientists from Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have used an electric field to reverse the handedness of atomic vibrations known as chiral phonons. Chiral phonons link magnetism with atomic motion. The ability to control them opens new possibilities for phonon-based information technologies.