Research Stories
Sex among the Masses
Professor Wu Cuncun has been digging out lesser-known songbooks and storybooks from Imperial China that offer a window into the sex and material lives of the lower classes.
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City Squeeze
China’s accelerating urban redevelopment has encouraged local governments to let landowners share in the profits, but it has also exacerbated inequalities.
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Drawing Rhythm from the Algorithm
Dr Hu Xiao of the Faculty of Education has used data analytics to develop systems that can retrieve and recommend music for modulating people’s emotions and evoking behavioural and physiological responses.
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Feeling Bored? Pay Attention to This
Boredom tends to arise when we stop paying attention to the task at hand, say HKU psychology researchers. The easy distraction of the smartphone is not helping.
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Towing the Line
An iconic boundary line drawn up in 1800s by a Victorian biologist to explain how and why land animals were distributed across the planet has been redrawn following a study of Christmas Island in the eastern Indian Ocean.
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