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Dominic Papineau, Prof. SHE Zhenbing, and postdoc Matthew Dodd from CUG worked with a couple of research institutions to find out that diverse microbial activities on Earth date back to at least 3.75 billion years ago. The research challenges old beliefs about when life began on Earth, and the results are published in Science Advances. The abstract of the paper is as follows.The oldest putative...

The ninth congress of the Chinese Society for Environmental Sciences (CSES) was held on April 9 and 10. Over 360 scientists including18 members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences attended the congress in person or online. The ninth council of CSES was elected during the congress, and CUG President WANG Yanxin became the deputy director of the ninth council.(Edited and translated from the Chines...

Opening CeremonyOn April 9, the 1st Conference on Dialogue Between Chinese and African Civilizations was held on the occasion of the third anniversary of the China-Africa Institute.Nearly 120 experts, scholars, youth representatives, entrepreneurs, and diplomats in China from different African countries attended the conference. The four topics of the conference were “Exchanges between Civiliza...

Prof. WANG Lizhe has received the Regional Leader Award from the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) GRSS (Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society) for his contribution to intelligent processing and efficient calculation of remote sensing information.The IEEE GRSS established the Regional Leader Award to promote, recognize and support members within the Geoscience and Remote ...

CUG team led by Prof. Timothy Kusky, Director of Center for Tectonics, published “Archean eclogite-facies oceanic crust indicates modern-style plate tectonics” in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS) on April 4. In the paper, they report eclogite-facies garnet clinopyroxenite associated with metagabbro in 2.52- to 2.53-billion-y-old ophiolitic...

The kick-off meeting of project “Research on the theory and technology of in-situ regulation of poor-quality groundwater improvement” led by CUG president WANG Yanxin was held on March 26. The project is part of the national key R&D program, aiming to solve some key scientific issues of transformative technologies in the program. Over 60 people attended the meeting.WANG Yanxin reports on the ...

The first episode of the course “Cultural and Natural Heritage”, presented by CUG team led by associate professor LI Jiangmin from the Department of Tourism Management, School of Economics and Management, was broadcast on Wuhan Education Television’s “Science Lecture Hall” on March 24.Cultural and natural heritage is the masterpiece of human ancestors and nature. What is world heritage? Wh...

On March 15, the birthday of Prof. YIN Hongfu, a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, a ceremony was held for Prof. YIN’s donation to YIN Hongfu’s Golden Nail Scholarship.The YIN Hongfu’s Golden Nail Scholarship was proposed by Prof. YIN Hongfu and Prof. TONG Jinnan in 2002. From 2002 to 2019, Prof. YIN gave the scholarship three infusions of over 600,000 yuan in total. 26 undergraduat...

According to the Top 10 Paleontological Findings of 2021 announced by the Palaeontological Society of China, two research results from CUG are among the top 10 list.One is “Reconstruction and tracing of different paleoclimate factors by palaeolipids” by Prof. XIE Shucheng’s team. It opens up a new direction for geobiology to be applied in the field of global change and shows the promising pr...

“Metamorphism-facilitated faulting in deforming orthopyroxene: Implications for global intermediate-depth seismicity”, of which the first author is associate professor SHI Feng from the State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources was published online in Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienceson March 7. The co-authors are Prof. WANG Yanbin from the University of...