Buddhist temples in China are home to trees from dozens of endangered species, a new study shows. Some of them are almost ...

Newly sequenced ancient genomes from Yunnan, China, have shed new light on human prehistory in East Asia. In a study ...

China’s Tianwen-2 mission targets a near-Earth quasi-moon and a rare comet, aiming to return samples and redefine planetary science in one bold journey.

On the fertile land of Shanxi, where the essence of Chinese civilization thrives, lie the most magnificent codes of ancient Chinese architecture. From the towering Buddhist temples to the ...

To track the species' decline, researchers have turned to an unusual source— ancient Chinese poetry. Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise.

“Chinese poetry, this ancient art form, can be a serious scientific tool,” he says. “It’s not just research—it’s a conversation with the poets of the past.” Rajni Pandey is a ...

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

1300). Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons For centuries in China, men and women gathered to play a game called Cuju. Considered an ancient form of soccer, a pastime, but also a political tool, ...

In a cave overlooking the ocean on the southern coast of South Africa, archaeologists discovered thousands of stone tools, created by ancient humans roughly 20,000 years ago. By examining tiny ...

Neanderthals could have migrated east and reached what’s now China, or a different species of ancient human possibly made stone tools uncannily similar to those being made in Europe during this ...

In ancient China, skiing emerged as the earliest winter sport, later giving rise to ice skating. Northern fishing and hunting tribes referred to their winter skiing tools as "wooden horses", which ...