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Biodiversity is not evenly distributed around the world. Most species live in the tropics, and few species live in the Arctic and Antarctic. But the fossil record reveals a completely different pattern between 252 and 247 million years ago.In a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Prof. SONG Haijun et al. examined 52,000 fossils of marine organisms from th...

On June 4th, Dr. DAI Zhigao (First Author), appointed professor of CUG, Professor QIU Chengwei from the National University of Singapore (Corresponding Author), and Professor BAO Qiaoliang from Monash University (Corresponding Author) co-published a review paper entitled “Artificial Metaphotonics Born Naturally in Two Dimensions” in the top international chemistry journal Chemistry Review (Impact ...

The International Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) SIGSPATIAL China Branch announced the winners of 2020 ACM SIGSPATIAL China Rising Star Award on July 22, 2020. Dr. YAO Yao from the School of Geography and Information Engineering won the Award. Dr. YAO is mainly engaged in the research on big data and urban computing, integrating technology and industry as well as promoting the applic...

The closing ceremony of “National Science and Technology Week 2020” was held in the Hongshan Auditorium of Wuhan on August 29th. The “Crinoid 2.0”, a musical robot developed by CUG, performed during the red carpet welcome to 17 researchers, academicians and experts, enterprise representatives, and winners of the Scientific and Technological Outstanding Contribution Award of Hubei Province....

CUG’s Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Advanced Control Intelligent Automation for Complex Systems, Hubei Subsurface Multi-scale Imaging Key Laboratory, and Hubei Key Laboratory of Intelligent Geo-information Processing were evaluated as “excellent” according to an announcement released by Science and Technology Department of Hubei Province on June 24.Hubei Key Laboratory of Advanced Con...

(Photo of specimens is provided by Prof. Ji Xueping at Yunnan Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute.)A team of scientists at China University of Geosciences (Wuhan), collaborated with researchers from the University of Potsdam and Yunnan Cultural Relics and Archaeology Institute etc., have sequenced the first genome of an ancient giant panda. The research has been online in a scientific j...

The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China lists the harmonious coexistence of human and nature as the basic strategy of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. We are required to establish and practice the concept that clear waters and green mountains are as valuable as mountains of gold and silver, to implement our fundamental national policy of co...

CUG scientists, KUSKY, Timothy M. and WANG, Zhensheng, have published three research articles on the Mid-lithosphere discontinuities and the Evolution of the Cratonic Lithosphere in “Geophysical Research Letters” and” Earth Science Reviews”, and caught the attention of domestic and international academic medias.Mid-lithosphere discontinuities (MLD) are defined as seismically detectable discontinuities ...

On January 17, 2019, Elsevier officially released the result of the “2018 Chinese Most Highly Cited Researchers”, on which nine CUG researchers were listed. Seven professors were selected in the field of Earth and Planetary Science and two professors selected in the field of Control and Systems Engineering. They are LIU Yongsheng, Timothy Kusky, ZHENG Jianping, WU Yuanbao, XIE Shucheng, and Z...

Accurate understanding the distribution of drought and flood pattern is of great significance to national economy construction and national security. Modern climate research shows that there exist two different rainfall patterns in the monsoonal regions along eastern China, the dipole pattern with southern flooding and Northern drought, and the tripole pattern with out-of-phase relationship between ...