The first edition of the Belt & Road Chengdu-Australian Open University Tennis Championship was held in Sichuan International Tennis Center on Nov. 7-11. Participants included 8 varsity teams all over the world, including the University of Melbourne (Australia), the University of Mumbai (India), Mara University of Technology (Malaysia), Lomonosov Moscow State University (Russia), the University of Belgrade (Serbia), Loughborough University of Technology (England), Zhejiang University and Che...

The 2018 Symposium on Engineering Talent Cultivation in the Context of Belt & Road and the 13th International Conference on Scientific and Educational Development Strategies were held in Hangzhou on November 9-11. A constellation of scholars, experts and business magnates from approximately 100 domestic and foreign universities, enterprises and organizations delved deeply into problems, opportunities and challenges related to engineering education in the context of the Belt & Road I...

As a Chinese advertisement puts it, you will have more of this food if it is delectable. YANG Zhe, a PhD student at the Life Sciences Institute, Zhejiang University, observed this phenomenon in the kingdom of fruit fries. Thus, he followed this crucial clue in his research and identified a key sensor to detect amino acids, only to find that fruit fries could also taste gourmet food via their “taste buds” in their gastrointestinal tract. It seems like that we really should trust our “gut feeli...

The Chinese Academy of Translation and Translation Studies of Zhejiang University was officially inaugurated on Nov. 10.  Vice President HE Lianzhen and Prof. XU Jun, director of the Chinese Academy of Translation and Translation Studies, unveiled the plaque for the Academy.“We should promote the fusion of eastern and western cultures, encourage the groundbreaking innovation of the Chinese culture in a cooperative manner and invigorate the Chinese culture in an interdisciplinary way,...

█▌FEATURE ▌Clayton Stromberger’s farthest ever outreach trip began when he saw the familiar phrase “all the world’s a stage” at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport. As a friend of Prof. John Rumrich and an outreach expert for “Shakespeare at Winedale”, Mr. Stromberger came to Hangzhou to join a global Shakespeare session. Initiated by Prof. SHEN Hong from School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, and Prof. John Rumrich from College of Liberal Arts, ...

The research team, led by Prof. YUAN Huiqiu from the Center for Correlated Matter and Department of Physics, Zhejiang University, obtained empirical evidence for the existence of Weyl fermions in the heavy fermion semimetal, thereby providing a novel platform for the exploration of the interplay between topology and strong electronic correlations. Their findings are published in the November 5 issue of the journal of Nature Communications.  We can use two common daily objects to explai...

Zhejiang University and World Leisure Organization (WLO) officially launched the cooperation on establishing a World Leisure Center of Excellence (WLCE) on Nov. 2, Prof. GU Jianmin, dean of College of Education and Prof. Cristina Ortega Nuere, chief operating officer of World Leisure Organization signed the cooperation agreement.Dean GU expressed his warm welcome to Prof. Nuere and thanked the World Leisure Organization for its trust and support. “It’s our great honor to be the fourth glo...

The research team led by ZHOU Qi from the Life Science Institute of Zhejiang University published a research paper entitled “On the regulatory evolution of new genes throughout their life history” in the November 3 issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution.  Every gene has a birthplace and an age, i.e., a cis-regulatory environment and an evolution lifespan since its origin. However, how the two shape the evolution trajectories of genes remains obscure. ZHOU Qi et al. addres...

Just as Auguste Rodin famously remarked, “Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her.” If you place a mineral water bottle under a polarizer, you may find a polychromatic pattern. For these random and free colors, scientists propose a precise encoding method. They invented a kind of programmable plastics in which a precise “invisible” pattern can be inserted via digitalized modulation of internal stresses.The research team led by P...

The award presentation ceremony for the 2018 Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize was held in Beijing on Nov. 6. A total of 56 eminent scholars in scientific fields were awarded the 2018 Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Science and Technology. Prof. WANG Jian’an from the 2nd Affiliated Hospital of the Zhejiang University School of Medicine and Prof. GAO Xiang from the College of Energy Engineering won the Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize for Scientific and Technological Advancement and the Ho Leung Ho ...