Garrett reacts to some of the most mind-blowing inventions ever created.

In the earliest days of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, it became clear this conflict has strong religious undertones. Whistleblower reports from the military detailed accounts of American commanders ...

Long before calorie counting and healthy diets, women in ancient China were already under intense pressure to stay slim, even swallowing cacti or silk in pursuit of what was perceived as perfection.

Some of the most ancient fossils collected to date were traced back to the Ediacaran period. This is the time interval ranging from around 635 to 541 million years ago, shortly before the time when ...

The influencer Zhang Xuefeng was known for no-nonsense, some said cynical, advice about how to win in China’s educational rat race. He died at 41. By Vivian Wang Any Chinese parent or student fixated ...

As one of the biggest targets of wartime looting in centuries past, China is now positioning itself as a global pioneer in repatriating lost cultural artefacts. In this article, the first in a ...

In Anyang, the birthplace of jiaguwen found at the Yinxu Ruins, a late capital site of the Shang Dynasty (c.16th century–11th ...

History has a strange habit of forgetting its own brilliance. Civilizations rose, fell, and took entire libraries of knowledge with them - engineering secrets, chemical formulas, mechanical wonders ...

Newfound fossils from China suggest that complex animals were around millions of years earlier than thought, among them ...

Visiting China these days, you can feel as if you are travelling two ways in time, said James Patterson in The Sunday Times: back into an “outlandish” past, and forward to a “strange” future. The ...

Among the fossil finds were bilateral worm-like animals that may have anchored themselves to the seafloor, early comb jellies ...