May. 23, 2024
PKU study settles centuries-old debate over ice surface
(Xinhua/Guan Minghui) Editor's note: For more than one and a half centuries, scientists had been debating the physical properties and behavior of the surface of the ice (e.g., how it could get so slippery). In a fresh publication in Nature, titled "Imaging surface structure and...
May. 22, 2024
China's afforestation efforts yield significant carbon storage gains
Editor's note: Today marks the International Day for Biological Diversity, and this year's theme is "Be part of the Plan," which encourages governments, businesses, and individuals to play a role in preserving biodiversity. In a recent publication, researchers from Peking Univers...
May. 17, 2024
Low-income groups bear greater health burden in food systems: PKU study
(Photo: Xinhua News) Peking University, May 17, 2024: Across regions where food is produced, emissions from agriculture pose as health risks to local populations. Amongst them, low-income groups are hit the hardest, a study by researchers at Peking University (PKU) and collaborat...
May. 16, 2024
Wang Jian’s group and collaborators discover multi-charge superconductivity
Multi-charge superconductivity in kagome superconductor ring devices Peking University, May 16, 2024: Superconductivity, characterized by the quantization of magnetic flux in units of the charge-2e Cooper pair flux quantum (h/2e), is an extremely important macroscopic phase cohe...
May. 14, 2024
Tracing the pawsteps of the North China leopard
Peking University, May 14, 2024: The North China leopard (Panthera pardus japonensis), one of the world's nine subspecies of leopards, is endemic to China and mainly distributed in the northern parts of the nation. Due to human activities, the species has undergone substantial ra...
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