In electric vehicles, high-energy storage batteries require battery positive electrodes with high capacity. According to foreign media reports, researchers from the University of Warwick (WMG, University of Warwick) and US researchers have discovered through a series of X-ray studies that oxygen ions, not magnesium ions, promote charge storage. (Feb 21)

A new study from the University of Warwick has found that alcoholism is related to the failure of the brain's mechanism to cope with danger. (Feb 21).

The physical origin of alcohol addiction has been located in a network of the human brain that regulates our response to danger, according to a team of British and Chinese researchers, co-led by the University of Warwick, the University of Cambridge, and Fudan University in Shanghai. (Feb 2021)

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Students from the University of Warwick talk about celebrating the Lunar New Year while in lockdown in the UK.

"Each year I write Spring Festival couplets and give them to friends and relatives. This year I will continue writing couplets and probably stick them on the door of my school residence."

"This gives me time to have a video call with my mom and dad, my grandma, my cousins and my dog," she said, adding that she will be happy to see them sitting around the dinner table and also for her family to see that she is safe. (Feb 2021)

Chinese news outlet People's Daily tells the story of Wang Shuyi, who studied for a doctorate degree in electronic engineering at the University of Warwick. During the pandemic, he has designed a mobile app to help spread basic health knowledge and habits, while reducing misinformation.

News website Sina reports on Warwick astrophysics research: "a research team led by a scientist at the University of Warwick in England, Christopher Manser, observed a white dwarf star 410 light years away from Earth. Its code-named SDSSJ1228+1040 is slightly larger than the earth, but its mass is almost the same as that of the sun."

Chinese news website China.com lists the entry requirements for international undergraduate students hoping to study at the University of Warwick, which ranks in the UK's top ten universities. (January 2021)

Chinese news agency Xinhua quotes Warwick's Professor Lawrence Young in its French language edition: "It is now important to evaluate the neutralizing power of the antibodies generated by the vaccination against the variants of the virus and to study the immune response of the individuals infected with the variants" (January 2021)

Article on Chinese news website Sina describes the culture and history of Coventry and Warwickshire, including the University of Warwick and Coventry University: "the two higher education institutions are like two petals of the cultural sisters of the West Midlands, thinking quietly, exuding modern rationality." (January 2021)

Dr Leandro Pecchia, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Warwick says the general population should be using so-called 'community masks' in an interview on Chinese broadcaster CGTN Europe. (January 2021)