Prized mushroom collection returns to China
(AP) -- A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned...
View ArticleChinese translator of Einstein Xu Liangying dies
(AP)—Xu Liangying, a renowned Chinese rights advocate, physicist and translator of Einstein, has died in Beijing. Xu was 92.
View ArticleStability amid revolution: Doctoral student plumbs China's strength...
As a German diplomat in Africa, Daniel Koss saw his share of unstable governments. But given the continent's poverty, factionalism, and history of colonialism, the situation was understandable.
View Article'The Social Network': Charles Dickens wrote the script
He looked at the technological revolution unfolding around him and recognized the possibility for new kinds of social networks, and the insight catapulted him to the pinnacle of his field and changed...
View ArticleSuperfast plant breeding slashes production times, research finds
(Phys.org) —Many plant breeding projects - such as those aiming to increase food production - depend on getting 'pure lines' of plants but this can take a lot of time as, up until now, it depended on...
View ArticleLive long and endure: how China's Mao was preserved
Days after Communist China's founding father Mao Zedong died 40 years ago the problem of what to do with his corpse was becoming increasingly heated—literally.
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