Peking University, Oct 28, 2026: High on the Qinghai-Xizang Plateau, the ground stays frozen for years, with only the top few meters melting each summer. Although the region is warming about twice as fast as the global average, a new study finds that more than a third of its perm...

Peking University, Oct 23, 2026: A robot arm that bends like an elephant's trunk can slip into tight spaces and handle fragile objects. Controlling it is harder, because its smooth bending makes its next move hard to predict. Researchers have now developed a method that keeps com...

Peking University, Sep 28, 2026: The woolly rhinoceros was one of the most iconic cold-adapted animals of the Pleistocene. Yet its genetic origins, population history, and responses to repeated glacial–interglacial cycles have remained poorly understood. Figure 1. Artistic recons...

Peking University, September 24, 2026: Rivers around the world carried about 260,000 metric tons of microplastics into the ocean in 2022, according to a new study led by researchers at Peking University (PKU). Published in Science, the study finds that this pollution is not relea...

Peking University, Sep 16, 2026: Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming part of how people learn, solve problems, and construct knowledge. Yet whether AI strengthens human intelligence or encourages excessive dependence remains an open question.A research team led by Associa...