As a boy, Sze Chai Kwok would spend hours exploring the woods and beaches near his childhood home in Hong Kong’s Clear Water Bay, watching the various wildlife hunt, eat and fight. Later, as a Ph.D. student in the U.K., he’d stroll London’s cosmopolitan streets, observing with equal fascination the throng of commuters, traders and tourists.

After rapid developments in ancient DNA research, or archaeogenetics, leading experts from around the world, including Duke Kunshan University, have proposed a set of ethical standards for the handling and testing of human remains.

Warming water and receding sea ice in the Western Antarctic Peninsula is changing the plankton community there with potential consequences for climate change, according to research led by scientists from Duke University and Duke Kunshan.

Yajuan Lin, lead author on the five year study

A mobile application designed for stroke patients and doctors in rural China led to significant improvements in patients’ blood pressure and physical activity, reducing the risk of hospitalization, disability and death, new research shows.

Strokes are the leading cause of death and disability in rural China. (Photo by Pixabay)

In collaboration with China Youth Climate Action Network and the Chengdu Bird Watching Society, Duke Kunshan University has concluded China’s first nationwide study of bird-window collisions.

Released on Sept. 9, the research uncovered major causal factors and outlined actions that could be taken to reduce collisions, including altering new building designs, retrofitting old buildings to be more bird-friendly and changing human behavior.

A team led by prize-winning computer scientist Ming Li has received a 1.5 million RMB (US$213,600) grant to further research into artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that can diagnose and treat autism. Awarded by the Guangzhou Key Area R&D Program, the funding will support the team’s work over the next three years.