GUO Fang, a researcher in the Department of Neuroscience of School of Medicine, identifies a neural circuit of Drosophila linking circadian neuron APDN1 with the sleep center ellipsoid body EB-R2. This study provides crucial clues to understanding the connection mechanism between the circadian clock and the sleep regulation.Researchers forecast that in the future, light sleepers may cure insomnia by taking certain medicine so as to have better-quality sleep. It is also surmised that with mo...

Rust and adhesion of marine creatures are two constant headaches for ocean-going vessels. To ensure the working condition of a vessel, it’s necessary to clean up iron rust, deteriorated paint and adhesive marine creatures periodically. However, manual cleaning is typically labor-intensive and has some intractable problems, such as high risk of injuries caused by aloft work, environmental and physical hazards in sandblasting work and the escalating labor costs.To tackle these problems, the team ...

Prominent scholars and business leaders around the globe came to Hangzhou on Oct. 21 for the Fifth International Advisory Board (IAB) Annual Meeting of School of Management, Zhejiang University. All the participants had gathered to learn and exchange views on the theme of “Building a world leading management school rooted in China”.The morning plenary session featured three keynote speeches and a roundtable discussion involving more than 400 faculty members, students and alumni.In his welcome ...

Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) has released its 2019 Asia University Rankings, and ZJU makes it into the top 20 universities in Asia, rising eight places from last year’s 21st to 13th.This year, the number of universities featured in the QS Asia rankings is increased from 450 to 505. With 111 featured universities, Chinese Mainland has made impressive progress in the rankings. Five of them are listed in the top 20, including Tsinghua University at 3rd, Peking University at 5th, Fudan Unive...

While it used to give us great amusement watching our grandfathers' jaws drop in amazement at new media teaching tools, little did we expect the very same reaction on our part at what just happened in ZJU's archaeology classroom. On Sept. 26, ZJU students "met" their counterparts from Harvard University at "the Pyramids of Giza", benefiting from an internet connection and Virtual Reality (VR) technology."What an experience!" exclaimed Tansi, a ZJU Mexic...

The Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the world's longest sea-crossing bridge, was open to traffic on Oct. 23. The bridge spans the waters of the Pearl River Estuary and cuts the travel time between Hong Kong, Zhuhai and Macao from three hours to 30 minutes.The bridge, crowned as a modern Wonder of the World, carries more than 400 original patents and sets seven world records. When people marvel at this engineering wizardry, they may not know that the Institute of Transportation Engineerin...

"At first it all began with a simple idea: make running more fun," said LI Chenxiao, CEO of StepBeats and a sophomore from ZJU’s College of Media and International Culture. "One day I heard someone complaining beats in his music doesn’t match his running steps, and it came to my mind that it would be great to have music produced in real time in sync with the runner’s stride."StepBeats, an app enabling its users to make music with AI composing while running, ...

The 4th China College Students’ ‘Internet Plus’ Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, themed on “Ride the Tide of the Era and Strive for Excellence in China”, was held at Xiamen University on Oct. 12-15. More than 2.65 million college students from both China and abroad signed up for the competition with over 640,000 projects in total.  Zhejiang University has clinched 2 champions and 13 gold medals in the past 4 competitions, thereby ranking first nationwide. In recent yea...

A Submerged Floating Tunnel (SFT) is a great potential traffic structure for crossing long waterways and deep straits. It has been included in one of the 60 important scientific and engineering technical problems by China Association for Science and Technology in this year. Currently, the design and construction technology of SFT has attracted great attention and special research from scientists and engineers in Italy, China, South Korea, Norway, etc.In order to cope with the world-class en...

The research team headed by JIA Junling at the Life Sciences Institute and the research team led by ZHENG Min in the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University co-published a research article entitled “Holo-Seq: single-cell sequencing of holo-transcriptome” in the October 17 issue of Genome Biology, a top journal in genomics.Researchers used the single-cell holo-transcriptome sequencing (Holo-Seq) to simultaneously observe small RNAs and mRNAs in a single cell for the first time. The miR...