Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the UNESCO unveiled a list of lead authors of the Sixth Assessment Report. A total of 707 authors from across the world, among whom 37 are from China, will participate in the finalization of the report. Prof. CAO Long with the School of Earth Sciences, Zhejiang University, is greatly honored to be one of the lead authors.The IPCC was set up in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and United Nations Environ...

Finding clues from a small piece of data is no longer an arduous task; however, when facing real-world problems, there is often more than one source of data available. When the clues lie in front of you, how are you able to deduct the truth from them?Recently, Alibaba-Zhejiang University Joint Research Institute of Frontier Technologies (AZFT) has published their latest research, which is called RelationLine. RelationLine is a visual analysis system that is capable of in...

The zebra’s stripes, the snail’s spirals and the leaf’s convolution……It has been an intriguing enigma as to how these regular and repetitive patterns form in nature. As early as 1952, English scientist Alan Turing made a prediction that two chemical substances, activator and inhibitor, can, under certain conditions, react and diffuse with each other to generate spatiotemporal stationary structures. Through what is dubbed as a “reaction-diffusion” process, these two substances will spontan...

The Second edition of the Chinese Folk Music Concert kicked off with a rousing and vigorous guzheng (zither) performance of “Fighting the Typhoon” in the Residential College of Haining Campus on May 2.This concert was featured by traditional Chinese musical instruments, including the guzheng, the guqing, the pipa, the xiao, the bamboo flute and the hulusi. The piano was also a perfect complement to the concert. A series of classical masterpieces, including Fisherman’s Chant at Night...

The 2nd World Industrial Design Conference was held in Mengqi Town, Hangzhou on April 21-28. Guests from more than 30 countries and regions and around 60 international design organizations attended the conference.With the theme “Design and Ecology”, the conference aims to set up an international cooperation platform to promote design creation and harmonious development between economy and society. ZJU and local government of Yuhang District jointly planned the conference.The con...

Zhejiang University and the University of Sydney have signed a university-wide partnership agreement, each committing to invest RMB500,000 every year for the next three years to fund joint research projects and academic mobility.     ZJU and USyd share a long history of cooperation. The two universities signed a Memorandum of Understanding in 2008, and a student exchange agreement in 2009. In 2017, ZJU and USyd signed an agreement on short-term faculty exchange, to provide funding...

The ocean is teeming with energy and it is inexhaustible. It plays a crucial role in the sustainable development of mankind.Three gigantic electricity-generating platforms using ocean current energy are in smooth operation near Zhairuoshan Island, Zhoushan.Over the past month, Guodian United Power Technology Co. Ltd. has developed an electro-hydraulic variable-pitch turbine with a capacity of 300 kW, based on a sample device designed by ZJU. The turbine has successfully produced electricity at t...

“Attention! Eyes right! Eyes front!”These military commands are quite familiar to us. But do you really know what “turning your head forward” is? If you are asked to look straight ahead while your body tilts somewhat to the right, will you first adjust your body and then turn your head in the stated direction or will you maintain your rightward posture and shift your gaze right ahead?This is an instantaneous response and is intimately akin to spatial encoding in the brain. Movements are rela...

Upright figure Source：http://www.knowledgebank.irri.orgThe research team led by Prof. ZHANG Chuanxi published an article entitled “A comprehensive omics analysis and functional survey of cuticular proteins in the brown planthopper”, which reveals the full complement of CPs and their functions in the brown planthopper (BPH), in the April 30 issue of PNAS. Ph.D students PAN Penglu and YE Yuxuan from the Institute of Insect Science are lead co-authors and Prof. ZHANG Chuanxi is the corresponding...

“Glasses for the blind are changing constantly. The GPS has been incorporated into new versions and it is predicted that the state-of-the-art face-recognition software will tell the wearer who is standing in front of him,” said CHEN Zuobing, Director of the Rehabilitation Research & Development Center of the Industrial Technology Research Institute and Director of the Rehabilitation Medical Research Center of the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University.This pair of glasses is developed to ...