Shi Shen's Star Catalogue, also called the Star Manual of Master Shi, was deduced to be the world's oldest by scientists ...

Endemic to China's Yangtze River, the Yangtze finless porpoise is known for its intelligence and charismatic appearance; it looks like it has a perpetual smile on its face. To track how this ...

Published today in Current Biology, a new study shows that the Yangtze finless porpoise has lost over 65% of its historic ...

In the study, the team systematically dug through preserved poems dating back to the year 618 CE and found hundreds of ...

The porpoise is critically endangered. Ancient Chinese poems reveal the animal’s range has dropped about 65 percent over the past 1,400 years.

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information ...

The Yangtze finless porpoise is so revered that poets have been writing about it for more than a millennium, but that love ...

Chinese students brought the ancient past to delightful light by combining Han-era techniques and modern technology to cook a ...

Students at the Yuelu Academy of Hunan University in China embarked on a project to recreate a rice dish from an ancient ...

The Chinese Academy of Sciences unveiled ScienceOne, an artificial intelligence platform designed to transform how researchers tackle complex challenges in fundamental science fields such as ...

Humans discovered fermentation thousands of years ago, but ancient brews would have tasted much differently from the beers of ...

A unique Bronze Age cemetery in China has revealed a high frequency of injuries suggestive of intense, violent interactions.