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Invisible wings: SYSU research teams safeguard the National Games
Beyond the spotlight of the competitions and volunteer service, SYSU research teams also played a vital role at the 15th National Games. Providing the crucial technological backbone for hosting a "Green Games," research teams from SYSU operated behind the scenes, leveraging their expertise in intelligent sensing and atmospheric sciences to ensure exceptional air quality throughout the event.Int...
December 11, 2025
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SYSU medical team performs transcontinental 5G robotic surgery
On November 14, during the German Congress of Robotic Urology (DRUS 2025), Professor Lingwu Chen, Director of Urology at The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), achieved a significant medical milestone. Operating from Hamburg, Germany, Professor Chen successfully performed a 5G-enabled remote radical prostatectomy on a patient located in Beijing, China.This procedure mar...
December 2, 2025
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SYSU-developed inelastic neutron spectrometer commissioned
On November 16, China's first high-energy direct-geometry inelastic neutron scattering time-of-flight spectrometer, an instrument for observing the structure and dynamic properties of matter at the microscopic level, has passed official acceptance review. The instrument is jointly developed by Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) and the Institute of High Energy Physics (IHEP) of the Chinese Academy o...
November 18, 2025
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SYSU team develop smartphone-based digital ruler for automated strabismus measurement
A research team led by Prof. Haotian Lin from the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center of Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU), in collaboration with Prof. Feng Xu from Tsinghua University, has developed a Digital Ruler for Strabismus (DRS), building upon their earlier breakthrough—the world’s first digital mask technology. The new tool enables ophthalmologist-level, automatic and precise measurement of stra...
November 3, 2025
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Climate change forces penguins to relocate: Key insights from SYSU's satellite tracking
Emperor penguins in Antarctica are forced to move 73 meters for every 1 C increase in temperature, according to an 11-year satellite tracking study led by Sun Yat-sen University (SYSU) researchers.The study, recently published in the journal Remote Sensing of Environment, provides quantifiable evidence of how climate change is fragmenting the habitats of one of the Antarctic's most iconic speci...
October 24, 2025