The best known Chinese folk representation of snakes is the Legend of the White Snake. The snake’s role in it has gone from ...

The discovery that scurvy, a debilitating illness caused by vitamin C deficiency, could be treated with citrus fruit transformed 19th century naval exploration around the world.

The ancient Greek statue some conspiracy theorists think shows a laptop. Credit: Getty Villa / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 A recurring conspiracy theory which has gone viral claims that an ...

In the drought-prone mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico, indigenous women are drawing on ancestral knowledge to combat water scarcity and sustain their communities. As detailed in a story by the BBC, ...

New genetic research is challenging long-held assumptions about ancient European societies, particularly during the Neolithic, Copper, and Bronze Ages, which were believed to be predominantly ...

An online influencer in China with 42,000 followers has scammed 560,000 yuan (US$76,000) out of a lonely elderly woman by making up moving stories and pretending to be her son. A Shanghai woman in ...

Modern life makes us tired, right? But research from societies in Africa and South America suggests people in the ancient ...

Ancient genomes reveal the integration of genetically distinct groups within the early medieval Avar society in the Vienna ...

Qiu Chaishi, a woman from Nanchong City in China’s Sichuan province, recently celebrated her 124th birthday. Born in 1901, she has witnessed immense changes over the past century and attributes ...

This as-told-to essay is based on conversations and emails with Tatiana Smith, 36, who spent five years teaching English as a second language (ESL) in China. The following has been edited for ...