A dazzling fireworks display choreographed by Zhong Liang illuminates the night sky on February 2, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of ...

Yet, few know that the firecrackers we recognize today only emerged during Wang's time, as gunpowder — first invented by the Chinese around the 9th century — advanced significantly due to the ...

No thread is brighter than that connecting East and West. The exchange of ideas, trade, and philosophies has shaped our world ...

It took the invention of atomic weapons in the Second World War to focus scholarly minds on just where explosive arms came from, how they have succeeded in altering the boundaries of the world in ...

Leonardo Da Vinci is known for the creation of iconic images like the Mona Lisa and the Vitruvian Man, but his designs spanned a stunning range of imagination.

Unlike the Western Gregorian calendar, China and other Southeast Asian countries use the lunar calendar, based on the moon’s cycle, to determine the New Year. Usually falling between Jan. 21 and Feb.

Marconi and the radio, Bell and the telephone, Edison and the light bulb, Benz and the automobile… All are debatable and ...

A woman in China accidentally bit on a firecracker ... “While I didn’t feel any pain at the first instance, I could taste the gunpowder in my mouth,” she said. The explosion caused numbness ...

Ah, here it is. These are the Gunpowder Plotters, the infamous Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators, who on the 5th of November, 1605, tried to blow up a packed parliament in the name of their ...