The ancient Chinese saw earthquakes as messages from the heavens. Why?
In ancient China, tremors were seen as cosmic warnings of misrule. China was also more advanced than the rest of the world at ...
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Rome’s Inequality Was Bad. But China’s Han Dynasty Was Even Worse
Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...
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Science and Society in Ancient China
IN his Conway Memorial Lecture, "Science and Society in Ancient China", delivered on May 12, 1947, Dr. Joseph Needham attempts to sketch a pattern of the organisation of Chinese feudal society and ...
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Archaeologists unearthed a cache of stone tools. Neanderthals may have made them, study finds
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Stone tools ...
Ancient “Life Oasis” in China Survived Earth’s Deadliest Mass Extinction
Fossils from China’s Turpan-Hami Basin reveal it was a rare land refuge during the end-Permian extinction, with fast ...
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Discovery of Quina technology challenges view of ancient human development in East Asia
Researchers have uncovered a complete Quina technological system in the Longtan site in southwest China. The discovery challenges the widely held perception that the Middle Paleolithic period was ...
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Ancient beach on Mars discovered by China's Zhurong Mars rover: 'This strengthens the case for past habitability'
Scientists had speculated Utopia Basin might once have held an ancient ocean ... and a core member of the science team for the Tianwen-1 mission, which included China's first Mars rover, Zhurong ...