The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) is committed to promoting research in the transmission of humanities and cultural conservation. A scholar from the PolyU School of Design (PolyU Design) has made outstanding contributions to the study of urban visual culture by photo-documenting neon signs across Hong Kong. His project has been recognised with a prize in popular science publication category of the 9th Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Awards (Humanities and Social Sciences) by the Ministry of Education (MoE).

This pioneering project uses virtual reality to better translate and visualise key climate data. For the first time, students across the globe will be able to ‘climb’ emissions, ‘swim’ through water use data, ‘traverse’ land use metrics, and ‘hold’ greenhouse gases. On the 22nd of April, Earth Day, the first-of-its-kind platform will be available to all – on all devices - for free.

For two months, micropaleontologist Jens Herrle sailed across the Indian Ocean, searching for traces of Earth’s distant past. But amidst the drilling and data collection, he found something unexpected – poetry.

The inaugural U.S. Mining Summit, held at the University of Arizona on April 3 and 4, rallied academic and business leaders around surging minerals demand amid unprecedented domestic challenges. The industry could be strengthened by the enactment of the Mining Schools Act of 2025, which was introduced in March and has garnered strong bipartisan support in the Congress. 

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