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...

Peking University, January 16, 2024: Recently, The Innovation, an interdisciplinary journal, announced the Top Ten Global Science and Technology Innovation Foci in 2023. Among them was OvaRePred, the first global non-invasive assessment and prediction tool for ovarian reserve, wh...

A graphic shows a two-dimensional transistor (Photo by School of Electronics, Peking University) Editor's note: The world's fastest two-dimensional transistors with the lowest energy consumption, designed by the Peng Lianmao-Qiu Chenguang Team from Peking University's School of...

KUNMING, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- A group of international scientists has rediscovered a sessile freshwater snail endemic to China after it had disappeared for more than 100 years.The discovery was made jointly by researchers from institutions including the Museum für Naturkunde in Be...