Teasing out biochemical information from ancient organic-rich sediments, notably the timing of the emergence of ...

China is harnessing cutting-edge science and technology to preserve and study its rich cultural heritage, with national research bases leading groundbreaking work in fields ranging from ancient mural ...

Sixty-six million years ago, a group of South American sauropods developed a surprising evolutionary advantage: the ability ...

His work grappled with the tricky nature of interpreting between languages and embraced the potential of language itself to ...

Nikhil Agarwal, Sushant Sachdeva, Andrew Ollett, Anjana Badrinarayanan, Sabyasachi Mukherjee, and Karthish Manthiram win the ...

On a mid-autumn night, Australian scholar Jordan Martin — also known by his Chinese name Ma Zhaoren — walked through the moonlit courtyards of Yuelu Academy, Hunan province. In the hush of the ancient ...

James “Jim” D. Watson, who helped discover the structure of DNA at age 25 and went on to spend 21 years as a Harvard biology ...

The scene illustrates as well as anything the problem of trying to write a history of that endlessly fascinating but ...

The Bhagavad Gita is the “nectar of wisdom” and a “miniature history of Indian civilisation” offering answers to the spiritual and material dilemmas faced by people in modern times, noted Chinese ...

In our recent review,1 we applied an evolutionary perspective to explore why exercise may never be effective medicine in practice, and we appreciate the questions raised by Zagury and Braga in support ...