Listen to Story Water contents of the lunar interior record are important clues The findings bolster the theory that the moon formed when a giant impact Moon formed around 60 million years after the ...

Archaeological evidence suggests its use as far back as the third millennium BC. In ancient China, it was utilized for its fibers, medicinal properties, and psychoactive effects. The Yanghai Tombs ...

Medieval manuscripts are rich sources of knowledge ... including analysis of ancient DNA and collagen, to examine intriguingly hairy outer bindings of twelfth- and thirteenth-century books from ...

Wondering about the secrets behind a rare porcelain plate, the Dutch collector Ton Letwory found hope in Jingdezhen Ancient Ceramic Gene Bank, the first of its kind in the world. With help from ...

Russian-American ballerina Ksenia Karelina was released from Kremlin custody in a prisoner swap with the United States on Thursday morning. Karelina was freed in exchange for German-Russian Arthur ...

Colosseum. Credit: Featured pics/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0 For a long time, the ancient empires of Rome and China’s Han dynasty have fascinated historians and archaeologists. These two powerful ...

There's less water in the mantle beneath the farside of the moon than in the mantle on the nearside, according to studies of the precious lunar samples brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e 6 ...

The movement has deep roots in the “guochao” national trend—known internationally as “China chic”—that’s been building across Chinese youth culture, representing a renaissance of cultural confidence ...

Meta Platforms is rolling out its "Teen Accounts" feature to Facebook and Messenger on Tuesday, as it faces sustained criticism about not doing enough to protect young users from online harms.