The 36th anniversary of a bloody crackdown that ended pro-democracy protests in China passed like any other weekday for most ...

The astronomical records of imperial China are some of the most comprehensive archives in the history of science, spanning ...

There is a long and venerated history of education and intellectual achievement in Chinese culture and history. One could ...

To track the species' decline, researchers have turned to an unusual source— ancient Chinese poetry. Researchers analyzed 724 ancient Chinese poems that referenced the Yangtze porpoise.

I had minor surgery last week to remove a lipoma, which had quietly made a home for itself on my right shoulder several years ago. Embedded just beneath the skin like one half of a ping pong ball ...

Looking back in the history ... know how that enabled mechanical music to develop. Without this invention, I am not sure where we would be. Notable, the clock in Wells Cathedral, probably the ...

Here are their 3 most incredible ancient inventions, the Windcatchers (their form of ancient air-conditioning), Yakhchals (their form of refrigeratoror freezer), and the Windmills. Trump signs ...

Usher, A. P., “A History of Mechanical Inventions”, pp. 191 ff., 304 ff., 2nd edit. (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1954). Diels, H., “Über die von ...

The I Ching is one of the oldest Chinese ... invention a true feat of innovation. Another machine—or piece of—present is a fusee (or fursée), common in antique mechanical watches and clocks ...

The ancient Greeks — of course — were among the first to create mechanical clocks to measure time; the perfection of the clepsydra and the alarm clock created by Plato are just two such brilliant ...