Integrated Science

What's new?

New reading suggestion was updated on 1 September 2023.

Department aims

1.      To enable students to learn some basic knowledge and thinking skills in science

2.      To arouse students' interest in science discovery

3.      To help students understand their responsibility in environmental protection

Daily life science sharing

Japan radiation pollution

#biology #chemistry #environmental science #ocean

https://www.npr.org/2023/08/24/1195419846/fukushima-radioactive-water-japan

How much plastic from the pandemic ends up in the ocean?

#biology #ocean

https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-much-plastic-from-the-pandemic-ends-up-in-the-ocean/

What makes you choose the food you eat?

#biology

https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/what-makes-you-choose-the-food-you-eat/

How do we find a planet in another galaxy?

#Astronomy #Galaxy #Space 

https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-do-we-find-a-planet-in-another-galaxy/

Can computers help us recycle more plastic? 

#physicla science #pollution #technology

https://www.sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/can-computers-help-us-recycle-more-plastic/

The Shaw Prizes in Astronomy, Life Science and Medicine 2021

#Astronomy #Life Science & Medicine #ShawPrize2021

https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/astronomy/2021

https://www.shawprize.org/laureates/life-science-medicine/2021

The Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine 2021

#Physics #Chemistry #Medicine #NobelPrize2021

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2021/summary/

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2021/summary/

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2021/summary/

What is a whale fall?

#biology #ocean

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/whale-fall.html

Fukushima Wastewater Will Be Released Into the Ocean, Japan Says

#energy #envirnoment

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/world/asia/japan-fukushima-wastewater-ocean.html

Understanding mRNA COVID-19 Vaccines

#biology #medicine

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html


Study reveals how egg cells get so big

#biology

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210306113142.htm


Vision impairment is associated with mortality

#biology

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210306113205.htm

Tiny frog species among series of finds in Andean ‘sky islands’

#biology

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/14/tiny-frog-species-among-series-of-finds-in-andean-sky-islands

Hong Kong Science Museum Special Exhibition "Robots - The 500-year Quest to Make Machines Human"


#technology

https://hk.science.museum/ms/robots2020/index-EN.html

The Nobel Prizes in Physics, Chemistry and Medicine 2020

#Physics #Chemistry #Medicine #NobelPrize2020

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2020/summary/

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2020/summary/

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2020/summary/

Plastic Foam Waste Problem Can be Solved with Bugs!?

#environment

https://www.greenpower.org.hk/html5/eng/bg_124.shtml

A robot wrote this entire article. Are you scared yet, human?

#technology

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/08/robot-wrote-this-article-gpt-3

New geochemical tool reveals origin of Earth's nitrogen

#geology #chemistry

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200416091941.htm

Bumble bees can experience an object using one sense and later recognize it using another

#biology

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200220141742.htm

Electric cars better for climate in 95% of the world

#physics #environment

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200323125602.htm

Renewable energy generation with kites and drones

#physics #renewable energy

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/02/190219132700.htm

Thriving since 1960, my garden in a bottle: Seedling sealed in its own ecosystem and watered just once in 53 years

#biology

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2267504/The-sealed-bottle-garden-thriving-40-years-fresh-air-water.html

Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

#biology #medicine

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019

Climate change: Australia fires will be 'normal' in warmer world

#biology #environment

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-51094919

Frozen’s ice queen commands ice and snow — maybe we can too

#physics

https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/blog/technically-fiction/frozens-ice-queen-commands-ice-and-snow-maybe-we-can-too

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019 was awarded jointly to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham and Akira Yoshino "for the development of lithium-ion batteries." 

#chemistry

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2019/summary/ 

Robotic Contact Lenses Let You Zoom in by Blinking 

#technology #biology

https://sciencing.com/robotic-contact-lenses-let-you-zoom-in-by-blinking-13720754.html

NASA’s new black hole visualizations showcase how gravity warps light

#astronomy #physics

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/nasa-new-black-hole-visualizations-showcase-how-gravity-warps-light

Birds fed a common pesticide lost weight rapidly and had migration delays

#biology

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/birds-neonicotinoid-pesticides-farming-migration-delays