Washington, DC, May 18, 2014 — Dr. Zhu Yu-Xian at School of Life Sciences and collaborators sequenced the genome of a cultivated cotton Gossypiumarboreum(cotton A-genome). The results were published online in Nature Genetics as a research article entitled “Genome sequence of the...

Peking University, June 5, 2014: Water-solid interactions are of broad importance both in nature and technology. The hexagonal bilayer model based on the Bernal-Fowler-Pauling ice rules has been widely adopted to describe water structuring at interfaces. However, the validity of...

Peking University, May 21, 2014: The editorial board of the world-famous journal Chemical Society Reviews recently awarded the Chem Soc Rev Emerging Investigator Lectureship 2014 to PKU Professor Chen Peng to appreciate his outstanding achievements in chemical biology.Established...

Peking University, May 9, 2014: Cooperative mobile robots have been utilized more and more often to carry out a growing variety of team tasks. In many scenarios, these agents are required to cooperatively generate and maintain certain desired geometric shapes to improve the quali...

Peking University, Apr. 30, 2014: A pair of supermassive black holes in orbit around one another have been discovered by Prof. Fukun Liu of the Department of Astronomy and The Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics of Peking University, and his colleagues. This is the fir...