Ancient Egypt could determine the exact time of day using the sun’s position. China was the first civilization to develop paper. The invention of paper, which occurred in ancient China around ...

Paper has changed the way we communicate and share information in remarkable ways. It is believed that the invention of paper ...

Before the invention of paper, ancient Chinese recorded important texts on various materials such as tortoise shells, animal ...

In order to catch liars, the ancient Chinese would sometimes give the accused a mouthful of uncooked rice during interrogation—and then ask the person to open wide. Dry rice would indicate a dry mouth ...

The age of Homo technicus could generate profound intellectual advances and solutions to our gravest problems. But first we ...

President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central ...

This article gives an overview of the main requirements for obtaining a patent in China, with particular focus on the aspects unique to biotechnology inventions. It includes examples of patentable ...

Researchers discover that ancient cylinder seals may hold the key to decoding undeciphered proto-cuneiform signs.

There was a lack of clear criteria in China’s patent practice for determining whether an AI invention constitutes a technical solution, given the abstract, complex, and unobservable nature of AI ...

Proto-cuneiform was an ancient Mesopotamia writing system that came ... in a different direction,” she said. The four original inventions of writing are in Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, and the South ...