This exhibition provides a glimpse into how ancient China valued timekeeping in everyday life and governance. Greece's contribution to water clock technology was significant; they refined the ...

Food from ancient, and not-so-ancient, times, has seen cuisine from across China appear on tables at home and abroad to this ...

Sep. 25, 2024 — Scientists successfully extracted and analyzed DNA from ancient cheese samples found alongside the Tarim Basin mummies in China, dating back approximately 3,600 years.

Evan Kleiman: I feel really lucky to have eaten candied fruit at the highest level from the oldest artisan confectionery in ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Scientists have found ancient water, salts, and organic molecules in asteroid Bennu, suggesting that space rocks may have delivered the ingredients for life to Earth. This discovery challenges ...

This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like marsupial, and more.

The finding was made at the Xielaozhuang (XLZ) site in the Henan province of North China. The site belonged ... in relation to the identification of ancient plant remains, explains Dr.