This image provided by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) under the Chinese Academy of Sciences shows the artistic rendering of Homo sapiens living in the Shiyu Site in north China's Shanxi Province dating back 45,000 years. (Xinhua)BEIJING, Feb...

Peking University, February 4, 2024: Paclitaxel is the world’s best-selling plant-based anticancer drug and one of the most effective anticancer drugs over the past 30 years. It is widely used in the treatment of various types of cancer, including breast cancer, lung cancer, and...

BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- An international team of scientists have released their findings on the pair of destructive earthquakes that hit Türkiye and Syria in February 2023, revealing their rupture process and details of the tremor triggered by it.As explained in the findings...

Peking University, January 19, 2024: Earthquakes are the most devastating natural disaster that cause the greatest loss of lives. Their rupture processes are complex, involving fault sliding, stress release, and seismic wave propagation. The rupture evolution of an earthquake, fr...

BEIJING, Jan. 15 (Xinhua) -- An international team of astronomers has unveiled the findings of a study on the formation process of high-mass protostellar clusters, where stars like the sun originate.It is known that the distant luminosity observed through telescopes comes mainly...