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Readers discuss the role education plays in changing wasteful habits, supporting Hong Kong’s many counselling hotlines, and concern over China’s latest outbreak of respiratory illness.

Readers discuss the desperate call for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza, a potential solution to inadequate mental health support in Hong Kong, ways to tell the Hong Kong story, and hospitality towards visitors.

Researchers at Princeton found that a material known as a topological insulator, made from the elements bismuth and bromine, exhibit specialized quantum behaviors normally seen only under extreme experimental conditions of high pressures and temperatures near absolute zero. The finding opens up a new range of possibilities for the development of efficient quantum technologies, such as spin-based, high-energy-efficiency electronics. 

A Brisbane dad is warning others what to look out for after a cyber-criminal stole 288,000 of his hard-earned frequent flyer points, tried to go on a holid

"Every time you look up at the sky, every one of those points of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy." -Carl Sagan (This post is coauthored by Dr. Peter Thieberger, Senior Physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory.)