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...

Peking Univeristy, Apr. 11, 2014: One of the most important challenges in the research of life sciences is to attribute physiological functions precisely to responsible genes. Despite the rapid development of toolkits to manipulate individual genes, large-scale screening methods...

Peking University, Apr. 9, 2013: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are most violent explosions in the universe since the Big Bang. Despite many years of observations and theoretical modeling, the exact mechanism to produce intense gamma-rays from these events is not identified. In a paper...

Peking University, Mar. 19, 2014: Using synthetic small molecules to control biomolecules’ activity is a long term goal for scientists working on the chemistry and biology interface, and realizing highly specific modulation of biomolecules within living systems has drawn particul...

Peking University, Mar. 14, 2014: Professor Zhan Xiaowei from College of Engineering, PKU, was conferred Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC) recently.Founded in 1841, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is the oldest and one of the world's leading chemistry communities...