Smartphone spectrometer could snapshot galaxies and a fruit’s ripeness

You point your phone at a pear. Not only do you snap its image, but a spectral scan also reveals whether it’s unripe or perfectly sweet. That same tech could flag a suspicious mole before your doctor does, or help survey billions of stars in a galaxy. A device that does this with previously unma...

Tsinghua SIGS Team Unlocks Electro-Generated Exciton Activation in Insulating Lanthanide Nanocrystals

Recently, a research team led by Associate Professor Han Sanyang from Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS), in collaboration with Professor Xu Hui and Professor Han Chunmiao from Heilongjiang University, as well as Professor Liu Xiaogang from the National University of ...

​Solid-State Battery Breakthrough—Tsinghua SIGS Team Publishes Findings in Nature

Recently, a research team led by Professor Kang Feiyu, Professor He Yanbing, Associate Professor Lv Wei, and Assistant Professor Hou Tingzheng from the Institute of Materials Research at Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (Tsinghua SIGS), in collaboration with Professor Yang Quanhong...

Wei Xie's group uncovers EZHIP's critical role in H3K27me3 intergenerational reprogramming

Epigenetic information, particularly heterochromatin modifications, can be stably transmitted across cell generations, thereby maintaining cell fate stability. This phenomenon is known as "epigenetic memory." During the transition from mammalian gametes to early embryos, cell fate undergoes drast...

Plants that fight back: scientists engineer disease-resistant crops

A modification to plant proteins helps them recognize and attack pathogens such as viruses. Crop diseases are a huge drain on our food supply. The soybean mosaic disease, for example, is a highly destructive infection that leads to billions of dollars in losses on soybean yields every year around...