HONG KONG, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Lingnan University today, 13 April, hosted its University Assembly with guest of honour Prof Arieh Warshel, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 2013 and widely recognised as one of the founding figures of computational chemistry. In his lecture Electrostatic Basis of Biological Actions, Prof Warshel shared insights from his decades of research and presented an integrated account of his life’s work, from fundamental physical principles and the laws governing electrons to the construction of the “microscopic world” of biological systems. He further extended this framework to the study and application of biomolecules, and highlighted the role of computational tools and artificial intelligence in advancing medical and pharmaceutical research.

The University Assembly was held in the Chan Tak Tai Auditorium on the Tuen Mun campus. There was an audience of around 600 people, including Lingnan’s senior management, staff, students, and young scholars.

Prof S. Joe Qin, President and Wai Kee Kau Chair Professor of Data Science at Lingnan University, warmly welcomed Nobel Chemistry Laureate Prof Warshel, in honour of his visit to engage with Lingnan students and learn about the University’s latest developments. He said, “Leading scholars are a cornerstone of Lingnan’s competitiveness and help drive the University’s academic development and international exchange. Following Nobel Laureate in Physics Prof Samuel C.C. Ting’s joining Lingnan, we are delighted to host world-class scholar Prof Warshel at one of our signature academic events. This initiative enhances the campus internationalisation, providing faculty and students with invaluable opportunities to interact with outstanding scholars and to advance interdisciplinary inquiry. It not only inspires students to combine frontier research with societal needs, but also facilitates the translation of research outcomes into practical applications that deliver tangible benefits for society and sustainable development.”

In his lecture Electrostatic Basis of Biological Actions, Prof Warshel provided a systematic overview of more than four decades of research on biological reactions. He also shared how his interest in chemistry began. When he first entered university, he was uncertain about his academic direction. Encouraged by a friend who recognised his keen observational ability, he chose to study chemistry, a decision that sparked his lifelong passion for the field.

Prof Warshel is best known for developing multiscale molecular modelling of complex chemical systems, enabling the simulation of biomolecular systems and protein reactions at multiple levels. This work transformed the understanding of biochemical processes and led to his award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2013.

Prof Warshel guided the audience from fundamental physical principles, tracing the development from classical theories such as Maxwell’s equations and energy models to modern computational approaches. He emphasised that the key to understanding the complexity of biological systems lies in translating microscopic electronic interactions into macroscopic dielectric environments. The electrostatic models he pioneered have enabled scientists to calculate electrostatic free energy within proteins with remarkable precision.

These computational approaches have advanced the understanding of enzyme catalysis and the molecular basis of cancer-related mutations. Enzymes, as highly efficient natural catalysts, accelerate reactions not primarily through mechanical strain, but through electrostatic preorganisation that lowers activation barriers. Using the Ras protein (Rat sarcoma protein) as an example, Prof Warshel explained that mutations can disrupt electrostatic balance in GTP hydrolysis (Guanosine Triphosphate hydrolysis), leading to uncontrolled cell growth and contributing to tumour formation.

The influence of electrostatic interactions extends beyond reaction rates to energy transport and macromolecular dynamics in living systems. Processes such as proton transfer within cells and ion transport across membranes are governed by electrostatics. At the molecular level, systems such as ATP synthase (Adenosine Triphosphate synthase) operate under strict electrostatic constraints. These insights have been applied to the study of complex biological processes, including protein folding and cardiac hypertrophy.

Prof Warshel concluded that the missing link between the structure and function of biological macromolecules lies in electrostatic interactions. This highlights the fundamental role of physical principles in biology and underscores the importance of electrostatics in guiding future developments in precision medicine and bioengineering.

During an in-depth discussion session with students and faculty, Prof Warshel encouraged young people to pursue excellence, and integrate knowledge and translate it into a meaningful contribution to society.

• LG presents celebratory visual tributes at New York’s Times Square, London’s Piccadilly Circus, and Seoul’s Gwanghwamun.
• The campaign highlights the major cities that have served as hubs for Paglen’s artistic practice.

SEOUL, South Korea, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — A new visual asset celebrating the 2026 LG Guggenheim Award recipient Trevor Paglen will be presented in the heart of the world’s most iconic cities including New York, London, and Seoul.

LG Corp. announced a global display of celebratory visual tributes created by the Guggenheim using the distinctive graphic identity of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative. These tributes present excerpts of landscapes perceived by machines and AI from Trevor Paglen’s practice, courtesy of the artist. These celebratory visual tributes will be displayed on LG’s prominent digital billboards at Times Square in New York, Piccadilly Circus in London, and Gwanghwamun in Seoul.

These three cities represent important landscapes in Paglen’s career. An American artist based in New York, Paglen has garnered international acclaim through major exhibitions at prestigious institutions such as London’s Barbican Centre and Tate Modern. His ties to the Korean art community are equally profound; he was previously honored with the ‘Nam June Paik Art Center International Art Award’ in 2018, and his selection as this year’s LG Guggenheim Award recipient further solidifies this enduring connection.

The commemorative display is expected to engage a global audience of approximately 30 million people throughout their duration. The tribute launched at New York’s Times Square on April 6 for an eight-week run, and will be followed by five-week displays at London’s Piccadilly Circus and Seoul’s Gwanghwamun starting April 13. This wide-reaching activation leverages the high-traffic nature of these landmark locations—averaging 250,000 daily visitors in Times Square, 300,000 in Piccadilly Circus, and 130,000 in Gwanghwamun—to bring Paglen’s visionary practice to the forefront of public consciousness.

Paglen is the fourth artist to be recognized as part of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, a five-year, multifaceted collaboration designed to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Selected by an international jury of leaders in contemporary art, Paglen will receive an unrestricted honorarium of $100,000 in celebration of his groundbreaking contributions to this field.

Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work brings visibility to digitally invisible structures, helping audiences better understand current technologies and their underlying logic. Drawing on sustained engagements with landscape renderings, advanced technologies, and the history of photography, he reveals how power, secrecy, and surveillance influence what we see–and what remains unseen–within digital systems.

Paglen has presented solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2019); Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC (2018); Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt (2015); Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing (2015); Protocinema, Istanbul (2013); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (2013); and the Vienna Secession (2010). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at leading museums such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009, 2010, and 2018); Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (2014); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2011); and Tate Modern, London (2010), among many others.

In recognition of his work, Paglen received the MacArthur Fellowship in 2017 and the Electronic Frontier Foundation Award in 2014, honoring him as a groundbreaking investigative artist. His work is in the collections of the Guggenheim; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Cleveland Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Art; FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge; Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg City; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Pérez Art Museum Miami; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and more.

The 2026 LG Guggenheim Award recipient Trevor Paglen will be recognized at the Young Collectors Council (YCC) Party on May 14. Paglen will deliver the lecture-performance “The Lizard People Are Here!” at Guggenheim New York on May 18. Please visit guggenheim.org/calendar/ for more information.

About the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative
Since launching in 2022, the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative has championed artists across a range of media, backgrounds, geographies, and career stages as part of a five-year collaboration between the Guggenheim and LG to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Unique in its focus and approach, the initiative represents an unprecedented investment in technology as an artistic medium. It enables the Guggenheim to broaden its investigations into this innovative field, providing essential support to the visionary artists whose work explores how technology shapes–and is shaped by–society.

About LG
LG is a technology innovator and global leader in consumer electronics, advanced materials, and automotive components. Founded in 1947, LG was a driving force behind South Korea’s modernization. The company produced South Korea’s first radio and television sets and today is a global leader in organic light-emitting displays (OLED), electric car batteries, and advanced industrial plastics. The LG group of companies operates in more than 60 countries that together generate USD 140 billion in annual revenue. LG Corporation (LG Corp.) is the holding company for industry-leading LG subsidiaries, such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Energy Solution, LG Chem, to name a few. For more information about the LG group of companies, visit lgcorp.com.

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SEOUL, South Korea, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — LX Pantos, a leading global logistics company headquartered in Korea (Global CEO: Lee Yong-ho), is partnering with SK Innovation E&S to install solar power generation facilities at three of its Korean logistics centers and develop an integrated power-sharing system across them.

Recently, LX Pantos entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with SK Innovation E&S.

Under the agreement, LX Pantos will have solar power systems installed at three of its Korean logistics centers and establish a framework for the generation, consumption, and sharing of renewable electricity among those same logistics centers. SK Innovation E&S will provide end-to-end solutions covering the investment, design, construction, operation, and maintenance of the solar power facilities.

LX Pantos plans to have solar power systems installed with a combined capacity of 2 MW on the rooftops of three logistics centers: the MegaWise Cheongna Center in Incheon, the New Port Eco Logistics Center in Changwon, and the SC Yongin Center in Yongin. In addition to generating and consuming electricity on-site at each center, the company will establish an inter-center power-sharing system under which power generated at the SC Yongin Center will be supplied to the New Port Eco Logistics Center, maximizing overall energy efficiency. Upon completion, these solar power systems are forecast to allow LX Pantos to reduce its carbon emissions by 1,200 tons annually.

In fact, LX Pantos is already successfully operating a 2.5 MW solar power system at its Sihwa MTV Logistics Center. Building on this experience, the company plans to expand the deployment of solar power systems at all of its logistics centers.

Commenting upon this tremendously significant development, one LX Pantos official said, “This partnership suggests significant progress in our ESG commitment, presenting a model for transforming logistics centers into infrastructure capable of both renewable energy generation and power sharing. We will continue to advance climate action and ESG management in ways that allow the logistics industry to best serve the sustainability of both the company and the planet.”

Meanwhile, LX Pantos is accelerating the transition of its logistics infrastructure toward sustainability and actively pursuing greenhouse gas reduction initiatives.

In particular, the company is expanding the installation of solar power generation systems across its self-operated logistics centers, while also pursuing the global green building certification, LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design). Recently, the MegaWise Cheongna Logistics Center in Incheon was awarded LEED Gold certification. Administered by the U.S. Green Building Council, LEED is a globally recognized green building rating system used by organizations in 186 countries worldwide. It evaluates buildings based on rigorous criteria across key environmental performance categories, including energy, water, materials, land, and indoor environmental quality.

In the international transportation sector, LX Pantos is also leading decarbonization efforts in the logistics industry by expanding cooperation with global transport partners on the use of sustainable fuels. To reduce greenhouse gas emissions from air freight operations, the company has entered into agreements with major global airlines to expand the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF).

■ About LX Pantos

Established in 1977, LX Pantos is a leading global logistics provider headquartered in Korea. It delivers comprehensive logistics solutions across sea, air, rail, and contract logistics through a worldwide network spanning more than 40 countries.

VICTORIA, Seychelles, April 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CoinGecko has released its Spot CEX Report 2026, offering a comprehensive analysis of 12 leading centralized exchanges across multiple dimensions, including spot trading volume, market share trends, token listings, and reserve holdings. The report highlights that MEXC, the world leader in 0‑fee digital asset trading, increased its spot market share from 5% to 9% over the past two years—nearly doubling its position. Concurrently, MEXC ranked first among all major exchanges with 1,333 new token listings over the past year, demonstrating formidable competitive advantages in both asset coverage and trading activity.

Market Share Doubles as Trading Volume Remains Among Top Leaders

According to CoinGecko data, MEXC’s market share surged from 5% at the beginning of 2024 to 9% in 2026, firmly cementing the platform’s status among the world’s leading exchanges. Furthermore, MEXC recorded $95.9 billion in spot trading volume in February 2026, officially securing its position as the second-largest exchange globally in this category.

Leading the Industry in Asset Discovery and New Token Listings

Outpacing major competitors, MEXC ranks first in new token listings among the 12 centralized exchanges covered in the report. Since January 2025, the exchange has listed 1,333 new spot tokens, sustaining an onboarding rate of approximately 100 new assets per month.

To contextualize this scale, CoinGecko tracked 7,847 newly launched tokens across the broader market during this period. By listing approximately 17% of all newly created tokens, MEXC’s listing velocity aggressively outperforms the industry baseline, where most major competitors capture less than 5%. This performance demonstrates the operational superiority of MEXC’s listing infrastructure. The platform remains structurally engineered to offer the broadest asset coverage, ensuring users can capitalize on early-stage projects ahead of the wider market.

0 Fees Combined With Broad Asset Selection Drive Continued User Growth

Among the 12 centralized exchanges analyzed, MEXC maintains the industry’s lowest baseline trading costs, enforcing a 0.00% maker fee and a 0.10% taker fee. By contrast, competing major platforms mandate baseline fees of 0.10% or higher, with some exacting up to 0.50%.

MEXC’s 0-fee strategy has become a core driver of its sustained trading volume growth, helping millions of users worldwide save significantly on trading costs. Combined with 2,350 listed assets, this fee advantage has made MEXC a preferred platform for traders seeking both cost efficiency and broad asset diversity.

274.6% Reserve Expansion and 101M USDT Guardian Fund Anchor Platform Security

The CoinGecko report also highlights substantial changes in exchange reserves. Between January 2024 and February 2026, MEXC’s reserve value grew by 274.6%, reflecting accelerated institutional and retail capital inflows. Supporting this scale is the MEXC Guardian Fund, deployed in June 2025. Capitalized with over 100 million USDT, the fund establishes a structural defense against cybersecurity threats and technical disruptions.

Executing the Next Era of Global Leadership As MEXC reaches its eight-year milestone, the metrics confirmed by CoinGecko validate the exchange’s market dominance. Rather than resting on legacy achievements, MEXC is actively deploying its resources to upgrade its core trading engine, maintain its zero-fee advantage, and expand its global market share in the upcoming growth cycle.

About MEXC

MEXC is the world’s fastest-growing cryptocurrency exchange, trusted by more than 40 million users across 170+ markets. Built on a user-first philosophy, MEXC offers industry-leading 0-fee trading and access to over 3,000 digital assets. As the Gateway to Infinite Opportunities, MEXC provides a single platform where users can easily trade cryptocurrencies alongside tokenized assets, including stocks, ETFs, commodities, and precious metals.

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