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Humanoid robots show off creepily impressive kung-fu moves during Lunar New Year festival in ChinaImprovements to the AI that powers Unitree's H2 and G1 humanoid robots, alongside mechanical upgrades, have resulted in a dazzling kung-fu demonstration.
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China banned all fishing to save the Yangtze River. This 'nuclear' option appears to be working.Decades of overfishing and habitat degradation led to huge declines in freshwater biodiversity in China's longest river, but there are signs of recovery after a fishing ban was implemented in 2021.
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China's emissions are flatlining — and may be falling — in critical turning point for biggest emitter, report saysThe carbon emissions of the world's biggest greenhouse gas emitter have plateaued for nearly two years.
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China has planted so many trees around the Taklamakan Desert that it's turned this 'biological void' into a carbon sinkHuge-scale ecological engineering around the edges of one of the world's largest and driest deserts has turned it into a carbon sink that absorbs more CO2 than it emits, research suggests.
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Spotted lanternflies are invading the US. They may have gotten their evolutionary superpowers in China's cities.The alarming spread of spotted lanternflies across the U.S. has been made possible by cities acting as evolutionary incubators, fine-tuning the insects and enabling them to thrive.
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160,000-year-old sophisticated stone tools discovered in China may not have been made by Homo sapiensArchaeologists have found the oldest known evidence of hafted tools in East Asia, and they challenge a previously held assumption about stone tool use.
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China's Great Green Wall: The giant artificial forest designed to slow the expansion of 2 desertsSince 1978, China has planted more than 66 billion trees along its 2,800-mile-long northern border, and it wants to plant 34 billion more over the next 25 years to complete its "Great Green Wall."
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Male human heads found in a 'skull pit' in an ancient Chinese city hint at sex-specific sacrifice ritualsA genetic study of 80 skulls found at a Stone Age city in China has revealed that the sacrificed people were mostly men, in contrast to previous assumptions.
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Ancient 'hanging coffin' people in China finally identified — and their descendants still live there todayPeople buried in "hanging coffins" thousands of years ago in China and Southeast Asia have finally been identified through DNA research.
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