Ancient China began as a group of isolated communities during the Stone Age and eventually grew into a formidable empire.

For more than two thousand years, people have mapped the stars. But a new study claims one of the world’s oldest surviving ...

[Photo provided to China Daily] A batch of ancient Chinese silk manuscript fragments, believed to be older than the Dead Sea Scrolls, are returning to China after a handover ceremony at the US ...

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.

Mentions of the critically endangered Yangtze finless porpoise in ancient Chinese poetry have revealed missing information about the habitat of the world’s only freshwater porpoise Almost 300 ...

Two Chinese scientists believe their country ... In their investigation, the astronomers used image processing technology to convert ancient records into measurable celestial coordinates ...

The Chinese Agricultural Calendar uses lunar months to determine its dates, but it also has “solar terms” which are based on the solar year. These solar terms helped the ancient Chinese people ...

“Poems are actually ancient citizen science,” says study co-author Jiajia Liu, an ecologist at Fudan University in China, to McKenzie Prillaman at Science News. “These data are not perfect.

It even appears to have a permanent smile on its face. Unfortunately, the porpoise, which is native to China, is critically endangered due to habitat loss. Thanks to over 700 Ancient Chinese poems, ...

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