11+ mon, 3+ week ago   (239+ words) BEIJING -- Chinese researchers have identified new landslides on the Moon that have formed since 2009, according to a recent research article published in the journal National Science Review. The primary trigger of such landslides was seismic activity originating within the moon,…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1230+ words) In the hushed halls of the Junsheng Sandstone Paintings Creative Space, the walls do not shimmer with oil paint or float in washes of ink. Touch the vividly colored works that line the white walls of the studio in Zhangjiajie,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (305+ words) Cave people who dwelled inside stone caverns were once known as "stone people" who stood guard outside caves of paintings. Leaping deer sketched on cliffsides and scratched into monoliths. Flint chipped into blades that pierced the hides of woolly rhinoceroses…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (405+ words) Archaeologists have confirmed that the iron fragments unearthed from Sanxingdui, a renowned archaeological site in Guanghan, Sichuan province, are made of pure meteoritic iron — the earliest such discovery in Southwest China. The study, conducted by Sichuan University's School of Archaeology…...

8+ mon, 4+ hour ago   (281+ words) For decades, scientists have puzzled over why the two sides of the moon look so different. The "near side", which faces Earth, is covered in dark, flat volcanic plains, while the "far side" is a rugged, mountainous landscape with little…...

5+ mon, 4+ week ago   (593+ words) On a wide field in Wuchengdaren village in Laizhou, Shandong province, a 30-meter drilling tower rises against the flat farmland horizon. In about six months, this rig will have pierced nearly 3 kilometers into the Earth, retrieving rock cores that could…...