Primarily, the compass was used for geomancy for a long time before it was used for navigation Ancient Chinese alchemists realized that the magnetite ore would point towards a magnetic north. Their ...

In 1508, Nicolaus Copernicus developed a celestial model of a heliocentric planetary system that transformed the way we view the universe. This bold theory, contrary to the geocentric ...

Born into a family of folk song artists on the Horqin Grassland in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, Wu was immersed in Mongolian folk songs from an early age and developed a deep ...