Two new dinosaur species identified
Fresh fossil finds in China throw light on sauropods
Hamititan (on the left) and Silutitan (on the right), walking over a nesting area of the pterosaur Hamipterus. Credit...
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Zhurong rover sends first pictures of Mars
The Chinese Mars rover sends two images (and a video).
The landing capsule moves away from the orbiter, a precursor to the first pictures Zhurong will send from the surface...
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History
Fine china from China
The science and secrets of porcelain were much in demand.
The science of porcelain would make a good plot for a spy novel – a story of ancient industrial espionage involving a...
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Descent on the dark side of the moon is revealed
Chinese scientists have worked out where Chang’e-4 landed.
Earlier this year, on 3 January, China’s Chang’e-4 (CE-4) spacecraft made an historic first by touching down safely o...
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China is going to get hot
Global warming will bring thousands of deaths each year.
Two months ago, climate scientists studying US cities found that global warming could produce killer heat waves causi...
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Cannabis smoking emerged around 500 BCE
Pot was grown in western China specifically for its potency.
Organic material extracted from fragments of ancient wooden burners and stones excavated from a 2500-year-old western...
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Tracing rogue CFC emissions to China
An ozone-depleting chemical that has been banned.
A mysterious rise in the emissions of an ozone layer-destroying chemical, trichlorofluoromethane (CFC-11), has been t...
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Whooping cough is evolving
Antibiotics and vaccines may become less effective.
A new strain of Bordetella pertussis – the bacterium that causes whooping cough – has become resistant to antibiotic ...
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China’s missing Stone Age technique found
Technical evolution responsible for advancing skills.
New research challenges the conventional wisdom that a key stage in the evolution of stone tools in China relied on i...
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Design reports released for proposed China supercollider
The biggest particle collider in the world moves one step closer to reality. Nick Carne reports.
China’s plans to develop a next-generation particle collider have moved into a new phase with the release of a Concep...
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New gibbon species found in Chinese tomb
Noblewoman’s tomb contained an ape unknown to science.
A previously unknown, extinct species of gibbon has been found in the most unlikely of places – the 2300-year-old tom...
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Rice was domesticated in China
Carbon dating of rice fossils shows domestication occurred.
The earliest known domestic rice was cultivated in China as early as 9,400 years ago, at the beginning of the Holocen...