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World's oldest mummies were smoke-dried 10,000 years ago in China and Southeast Asia, researchers findThe world's oldest evidence for purposeful human mummification comes from Southeast Asia, where people smoke-dried their ancestors' corpses 10,000 years ago.
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Iconic winged lion statue in Venice may actually be from China's Tang dynasty, study findsA new study of the trace amounts of lead in Venice's famous winged lion statue suggests that its metal originated in China — and Marco Polo's family may have brought it over.
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China's 'Darwin Monkey' is the world's largest brain-inspired supercomputerDarwin Monkey or 'Wukong' features over 2 billion artificial neurons and more than 100 billion synapses — similar to the neural structure of a macaque.
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China is dunking data centers into the ocean to keep them coolChina is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool.
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Robots awkwardly race, fight and flop around in China's first World Humanoid Robot GamesThe first World Humanoid Robot Games are underway in China, with robots competing against each other in track and field, soccer, kickboxing and other events.
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'It makes no sense to say there was only one origin of Homo sapiens': How the evolutionary record of Asia is complicating what we know about our speciesAs experts study the human fossil record of Asia, many have come to see it as telling a different story than what happened in Europe and Africa.
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300,000-year-old teeth from China may be evidence that humans and Homo erectus interbred, according to new studyA study of a handful of 300,000-year-old teeth revealed an ancient human group had a mix of archaic and modern tooth features.
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400-mile-long chain of fossilized volcanoes discovered beneath ChinaResearchers recently discovered a huge chain of extinct volcanoes buried deep below South China that formed when two tectonic plates collided during the breakup of Rodinia, around 800 million years ago.
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Oldest wooden tools unearthed in East Asia show that ancient humans made planned trips to dig up edible plantsThe 300,000 year-old tools show that hominins in East Asia made planned foraging trips to lakeshores and designed instruments for specific purposes.
