Peking University, September 18, 2023: Methane (CH4) stands as the second most important greenhouse gas caused by human activities after CO2 and is responsible for 0.6°C global warming since preindustrial times.To better quantify national emissions of methane around the globe, a...

Peking University, September 1, 2023: With excellent sensitivity and spatial and spectral resolutions, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) presents an unprecedented opportunity to promote our understanding of the evolutionary processes of galaxies. Taking advantage of a recentl...

Peking University, August 21, 2023: A new paper entitled “Evolutionary Paths of Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Host Galaxies,” published on August 17, 2023, in Nature Astronomy, provides critical new insights on the co-evolution of supermassive black holes and their host galaxi...

BEIJING, Aug. 7 (Xinhua) -- Researchers from China's Peking University have found a new potential drug target for improving the effectiveness of diabetes treatment.Bacteroides spp. microbial dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP4) from the gut microbiota is believed to be an important ther...

Peking University, August 4, 2023: It is first discovered by Pythagoras that the vibrations of strings are drastically enhanced at certain frequencies, which forms the basis of our tone system. Such natural vibrations ubiquitously exist in objects regardless of their size scales...