Japanese researchers used a synchrotron facility to analyze a glass plate found in a tumulus in Nara, western Japan, dating back to the late 5th century.
A new plant species in the Aristolochiaceae family was recently discovered in Xuan Lien Nature Reserve in Vietnam's central Thanh Hoa province.
Up to half of the water on Earth, including the water in your bottle, is likely older than the solar system itself, a new study said Thursday.
Remains of an ancient nomadic campsite for emperors from the Liao Dynasty (907-1125 A.D.) may be the largest of their kind in China, archaeologists said on Wednesday.
Australian researchers have found that junk food can suppress a person's appetite for a balanced, healthy diet.
Archaeologists digging an ancient Hellenistic city in Cyprus have come upon a family tragedy 24 centuries ago, the Cypriot Department of Antiquities announced on Thursday.
Austrian and German researchers have found the enzyme HO-1 to be a key factor in determining the degree of sickness that results from obesity, APA reported Thursday.
Singapore police arrested two suspects on Thursday in connection with a shocking case of a male body found stuffed in a luggage bag a year earlier.
A fossil of one of the world's oldest flying seabirds has been found in New Zealand
At least nine people were killed and others were missing after torrential rains struck the Italian island of Sardinia on Monday, Rai state television reported.
Global warming will probably trigger more human conflict and violence worldwide, according to a study published Thursday in the U.S. journal Science.
Potato chips, fried potato and zucchini have been found to contain a high level of acrylamide, which can affect the nervous system, and have adverse reproductive and developmental effects in experimental animals, Hong Kong's Center for Food Safety said on Monday.
Archaeologists said they have discovered the trackway of a swimming theropod in southwest China's Sichuan Province, helping to confirm that non-avian theropods were capable of swimming.
A missing baby, who was left in a car that had been stolen on Monday morning in northeast China's Jilin Province, died after being strangled, local police confirmed Tuesday evening.
The death toll in Australia's Queensland flood has risen to six after another body was found in the Lockyer Valley, west of Brisbane, on Wednesday, local media reported.
A former housing administration official in central China's Henan Province who was found owning 31 houses by an online whistle-blower has been arrested, local authorities announced on Monday.
The police has confiscated over 20,000 counterfeit bags branded as Louis Vuitton, Hermes or Coach, closed 37 illegal sites for the production and sale of such bags, and found that the suspects have manufactured and sold more than 960,000 such fake bags, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement Sunday.
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