In ancient China, tremors were seen as cosmic warnings of misrule. China was also more advanced than the rest of the world at ...

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 ...

Rome, with a population of around 75 million, had an average income equivalent to about 2.25 times the subsistence minimum — ...

In Liaoning Province, located in the rolling farm country of northeastern China, peasant farmers make ... Liaoning a Mesozoic Pompeii, evoking the ancient Roman city where humans were entombed ...

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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 ...

How and when domestic cats arrived in China has been a mystery. A new analysis of cat DNA suggests traders and diplomats likely carried the pets with them along the Silk Road 1,400 years ago.

Scientists have used ancient DNA to help reconstruct 6,000 years ... The scientists from Australia, China, New Zealand and the United States said the findings showed that the Antarctic ecosystem ...

Researchers have previously found leopard cat bones dating to 5,400 years ago in an ancient ... Science magazine that the work offers valuable insights into how domestic cats made it to China.