Hong Kong students care about the pattern of their schoolbags and the clothes they wear. But when it comes to school designs, they seem less interested.

The British Council organised a competition to promote the Integer concept - intelligent and green architecture - that allowed students to design their dream schools.

A total of 90 schools joined the event and the two winning teams have just returned from a 10-day trip to the United Kingdom, which was one of the prizes on offer.

Professor Su’s lab focuses on how olfactory receptor neurons (ORNs) process odour information, as these neurons are the primary source of sensory input. Her research findings have been published in leading journals in international neuroscience and biology, including Nature, Neuron, Nature Communications and PNAS.

Omar Yaghi, the winner of last year’s Nobel Prize for chemistry, has joined China’s Tsinghua University to lead a new AI-driven research centre.

The 61-year-old materials scientist will head a team working on ways artificial intelligence (AI) can transform the design and synthesis of new materials and shorten their development cycle “by orders of magnitude”, Tsinghua said on Friday.

Speaking at his appointment ceremony, Yaghi said he hoped to develop materials to tackle major environmental challenges such as water shortages, carbon neutrality and sustainable development.