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 ...

BEIJING -- Researchers have found an ancient scorpion fossil dating back approximately 125 million years in Northeast China's Liaoning province, which is the first Mesozoic scorpion fossil ...

China's Mars rover Zhurong finds possible shoreline of ancient Red Planet ocean — What makes Mars the 'Red' Planet? Scientists have some new ideas ...

On January 7, 2025 an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.1 struck Tibetan China and Nepal. Chinese state media had reported 126 people had been killed, 188 injured, and hundreds of houses flattened ...

BEIJING -- China will launch a nationwide initiative to tag and protect ancient and notable trees, reinforcing their status as "green national treasures" and "living cultural relics," a senior ...

Southwestern parts of China, Nepal and northern India are often hit by earthquakes caused by the collision of the Indian and Eurasian tectonic plates, which are pushing up an ancient sea that is ...