Around 4,000 years ago, a sophisticated society in the middle reaches of China’s Yangtze River, known for its palaces, water ...

A new study involving researchers from Oxford's Department of Earth Sciences has finally solved the mystery of what caused ...

A centuries-old Chinese medicinal root is getting new scientific attention as a potential game-changer for common hair loss.

The shift from cultural acceptance to strict prohibition happened relatively recently in this long timeline. Current policies represent ...

Archaeologists in central China have uncovered evidence that early humans were far more inventive than long assumed. Excavations at the Xigou site reveal advanced stone tools, including the earliest ...

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 years ...

The most famous example of such exquisitely preserved Cambrian fossils is the Burgess Shale of Canada.