The research team headed by DING Nai at the College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument Sciences published an article entitled “Eye Activity Tracks Task-Relevant Structures during Speech and Auditory Sequence Perception” in the December 18 issue of Nature Communications. Their results show that your eye movements may tell if you are interested when listening to a speech.In daily life, a lot of things call for our attention. For example, we need to listen attentively in class, st...

Another three collections of The Series of Ancient Chinese Paintings—A Collection of Paintings from the Warring States Period to the Tang Dynasty, A Collection of Ming Dynasty Paintings and A Collection of Qing Dynasty Paintings—marked their debut on Dec. 12 in Beijing.ZOU Xiaodong, Secretary of the CPC Committee of Zhejiang University, delivered a speech at the Debut Ceremony. “Zhejiang University adheres to the tenets of connecting the past with the present, linking the east and the west, mer...

A new version of the four-legged “Jueying” robot was released on Dec. 4. The new “Jueying” robot, a small-sized quadruped robot that can handle 20 kg objects, is capable of running and climbing stairs.The new “Jueying” robot is marked by a better ability to strike a balance while running and a greater capability of adapting to more complicated terrains, said one of the developers.“Jueying” can issue an order every 0.5 millisecond, adapt quickly to the environment, give an order while it ...

On Dec. 11, Vice President HE Lianzhen led a delegation to attend the conference of the ZJU-SUTD Cooperation Administrative Committee at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).  At the conference, the two universities reported the latest cooperation programs, discussed the plan for future partnership and reached a consensus in regard to co-hosting 2019 Technology and Design International Symposium at Zhejiang University.Vice President HE Lianzhen and SUTD President Ch...

A delegation from Zhejiang University, led by President WU Zhaohui, visits Université Paris-Saclay and École Polytechnique in France recently. On Dec. 14, WU delivered a keynote speech entitled “AI in China: Today and Tomorrow” during the ZJU Networking Reception in Paris, sharing the development of AI in China and the best practices at ZJU.As applications of AI becoming much commonly seen in people’s daily life, AI is accelerating the arrival of Intelligence Augmentation Age. In J...

At the 2018 G20 Summit in Argentina, Patricio Giusto, an eminent ZJU alumnus, an Argentine public policy expert, Head of Political Diagnostics Consulting and an associate professor at the Catholic University of Argentina, expressed his anticipation of close ties between China and Argentina and other Latin American countries in an article published in People’s Daily and in an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency.  On Nov. 26, Patricio Giusto published an article entitled “Hope pinne...

The research team led by JI Junfang from the Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, published an article entitled “miR-192-5p silencing by genetic aberrations is a key event in hepatocellular carcinomas with cancer stem cell features” in the December 7 issue of Cancer Research. It opens up a feasible and effective approach to targeting hepatocellular carcinomas with cancer stem cell features.Primary liver cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and approximate...

Essential Science Indicators (ESI) reveals the latest statistics about highly Cited Papers. Among them was Urban growth dilemmas and solutions in China: Looking forward to 2030, an article penned by Prof. WU Yuzhe and his PhD student LUO Jiaojiao,School of Public Affairs.This article was published in Habitat International in 2016. In the article, WU Yuzhe et al. asserts that China’s urbanization and industrialization is replacing large amounts of farmland, prompted by relevant land finance...

A scroll is unfolded bit by bit on the screen and Portrait of a Flower-wearing Maid—a famous painting in ancient China—is unveiled in front of an audience. A maid attired in a Tang Dynasty costume walks out of the painting, composed and graceful.  Modern technology brings to life “dormant” cultural relics ranging from static objects to dynamic images like a magic wand. Four screens display four different stories in a synchronized image-on-image manner. The audience can savor a holistic vi...

Recently, the research team led by Prof. LIU Xu and Prof. KUANG Cuifang from the College of Optical Science and Engineering put forward a novel method of performing 3D multi-color live-cell super-resolution volume imaging termed as multi-angle interference microscopy (MAIM), thus offering a powerful device for researches intothe subcellular dynamics of mitochondria and microtubule architectures during cell migration. This finding is published in the November 16 issue of Nature Communications.Ins...