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Engraved objects are usually seen as a hallmark of cognition and symbolism, which are viewed as important features of modern human behavior. 
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Although the notion is revolting to many, at some point in the future we’ll have the know-how and the tools to genetically modify our bodies to make us stronger, better looking, more intelligent.
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The invention of pottery introduced fundamental shifts in human subsistence practices and sociosymbolic behaviors. Here, we describe the dating of the early pottery from Xianrendong Cave, Jiangxi Province, China, and the micromorphology of the stratigraphic contexts of the pottery sherds and radiocarbon samples. The radiocarbon ages of the archaeological contexts of the earliest sherds are 20,000 to 19,000 calendar years before the present, 2000 to 3000 years older than other pottery found in East Asia and elsewhere. The occupations in the cave demonstrate that pottery was produced by mobile foragers who hunted and gathered during the Late Glacial Maximum. These vessels may have served as cooking devices. The early date shows that pottery was first made and used 10 millennia or more before the emergence of agriculture. Via Lemercier Olivier, diana buja
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There once was hope for the little boy born with no eyes to see, but doctors are now saying that his hope for sight will be lost forever.
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For 5,000 years, the Chinese have used a system of medicine based on the flow and balance of positive and negative energies in the body. In this system, the appearance of the tongue is one of the measures used to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng. Now, University of Missouri researchers have developed computer software that combines the ancient practices and modern medicine by providing an automated system for analyzing images of the tongue.
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Male to female birth ratios fell during the Chinese Great Leap Forward famine.
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Researchers have discovered the cellular target for a two-thousand-year-old herbal remedy known as Chang Shan.
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Cultural differences between the West and East are well documented, but a study shows that concrete differences also exist in how British and Chinese people recognise people and the world around them.
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The proliferation of good cameras, big displays, and fast processors in smartphones over the last several years has spurred the development of augmented reality apps spanning virtually every... Via Pekka Puhakka
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Traditional Chinese medicine has long been used to ease pain, treat disease, boost fertility, and prevent miscarriage. Known in the Western medical community by its acronym TCM, these traditional remedies include herbal preparations and acupuncture.
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In a suburb of Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi Province, there is a tomb complex that archaeologists found in 2007 with 14 separate units. Unfortunately, the researchers were not the first to discover the site. Over time, some significant findings have come out of the site.
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Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state media reported.
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Vegetables on Mars!
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Experts have held off excavating the tomb until archaeological technology is good enough.
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A Texas Tech University scientist studying the Chinese mindfulness meditation known as integrative body-mind training (IBMT) said he and other researchers have confirmed and expanded on changes in structural efficiency of white matter in the brain that can be related to positive behavioral changes in subjects practicing the technique for a month and a minimum of 11 hours total.
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A bizarre freckly-pinkish creature with no hair but a white tail and mohawk-style plume of hair terrified locals in Xinxiang, located in Henan province, China, so much that many were convinced that it was botched "genetic experiment" that escaped from a nearby science facility.
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Xianxingzhe (lit. "Pioneer" or "Forerunner"), was completed in 2000 after more than a decade of research. It is considered China's first humanoid robot.
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Chinese scientists have proposed that an object collected 35 years ago from a tomb of the Western Han Dynasty in Fuyang city and called “lacquerware of unknown names” could be a gnomon with template.
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A 12-year-old girl diagnosed with a rare disease has a stomach, bloated so out of proportion that she appears like she is on the verge of giving birth, and doctors are unable to stop it from growing even larger.
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American and Chinese scientists are flabbergasted after discovering a giant 298-million-year-old forest buried intact under a coal mine near Wuda, in Inner Mongolia, China.
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Chinese scientists have assembled the highest resolution map ever created of the entire Moon and unveiled a series of global Moon images on Monday, Feb. 6.
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As Chinese New Year approaches, Many East-Asian families hope that their children will be born in this Year of the Dragon because of the belief that the child will be smarter and more prosperous than children born during the other 11 Chinese Zodiac...
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Experiment shows that a Hovenia Dulcis extract mitigates many of the negative effects of alcohol. Via Paulo Furtado
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China's state broadcaster has test-launched a 3D television channel, state media said, in a bid to draw viewers and drive consumption by encouraging people to upgrade to 3D-capable sets.
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"This discovery provides important material for the study of symbolic and cognitive capability of humans in the Late Paleolithic of East Asia.
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