When we think about cutting-edge technology, we usually picture Silicon Valley startups or futuristic labs. But here's the thing - some of the most mind-blowing innovations weren't dreamed up in the ...

According to the conventional view of history, humans have only walked the Earth in our present form for some 200,000 years. Advanced civilizations appeared several thousand years ago, but much of the ...

The viral meme isn’t really about China or actual Chinese people. It's a symbol of what Americans believe their own country has lost. It’s hard to quantify a zeitgeist, but here at WIRED, chronically ...

A Long March 2D carrier rocket carrying Zhangheng 1B satellite, an electromagnetic monitoring satellite jointly developed by China and Italy, blasts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in ...

The combo diagram illustrates the relative positions of the interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and the orbiter of China's Mars mission Tianwen 1. The diagram on the right is an enlargement of a section of ...

Although we still cannot accurately predict earthquakes, we have come a long way in detecting, recording, and measuring seismic shocks. Many don’t realise that this process began nearly 2000 years ago ...

A. IMAMURA has recently translated relevant passages concerning the life of Tyōkō and his seismoscope from the Chinese history “Gokanzyo” and discusses this very interesting topic 1.

About 2,000 years ago, a Chinese scholar named Zhang Heng reportedly created a groundbreaking device called the Houfeng Didong Yi, a seismoscope that allegedly could detect distant earthquakes and ...

For centuries, earthquakes have posed a serious threat to humanity. Today, scientists use satellites, supercomputers, and artificial intelligence to monitor seismic activity and improve earthquake ...

Earthquakes have haunted humanity for millennia – their sudden violence leaving civilisations scrambling for early warning. Even today, when a Japanese manga implausibly predicted “The Big One” ...

THE object of this work is “to give a systematic account of various earth-movements”: these are classified as (1) Earth-quakes, (2) -Tremors, (3) -Pulsations, and (4) -Oscillations, which are ...