Those of you familiar with The Princess Bride probably know the fire swamp scene pretty well. After Westley and Buttercup survive the first two deadly terrors of the fire swamp — the flame spurt and the lightning sand — Westley assures his lady that the third terror, the R.O.U.S.’s (rodents of unusual size), are nothing [...]

The mystery of China’s suspicious moon photo, the one that looks like every other unremarkable moon photo we’ve ever seen, has been solved. When the Chinese government released the first lunar image produced by its moon orbiter Chang’e 1 (photo left), internet space enthusiasts accused China of copying an image captured by NASA in 2005 [...]

As Ali G. once said, “Yo. Science. What is it all about? Is it good or is it whack?” In some cases, it really is whack, like when it’s misused to support political beliefs or assertions that are overtly unreasonable, racist or absurd. I’ll give you an example relating to China. In August, Ben Goldacre, [...]

What do Siberian tigers do when they are cooped up in a freezing North China zoo that cannot afford to feed them? They go after one of their own. In a gruesome act of cannibalism Saturday, four adult Siberian tigers attacked a 12-year-old 330-pound tiger with which they had peacefully shared a compound for over [...]

Following the meeting of China’s top Communist leaders last week in Beijing, China has switched gears from its national agenda to its galactic agenda. The Chang’e I, the nation’s first lunar probe blasted off from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province at 6:05pm Wednesday and separated from its rocket 24 minutes later. And [...]

A television reporter claims to have filmed a 20-minute video of China’s answer to the Loch Ness monster. The “Tianchi Monster,” as it is known, might be as many as 20 massive reptiles thought to have human-like heads, 4-foot necks, wings and seal-like bodies living in China’s Tianchi Lake, near the North Korean border. Zhong [...]

In 2002, French scientists produced the world’s first cloned rabbit. But that rabbit was created by using the ovum cumulus cells from an adult female rabbit. How boring. In February, China created the first cloned rabbit using the somatic cells from a rabbit fetus and Tuesday, state media announced that the rabbit had passed its [...]

Ali G. once said, “Yo. Science. What is it all about? Is it good or is it whack?” For Chinese paleontologists who found the remains of giant birdlike dinosaur in Inner Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, science is certainly not whack. The discovery, announced Wednesday in the journal Nature, throws a wrench in the commonly believed evolutionary [...]

My earliest exposure to Chinese kids came at a time when children’s television was at its finest and Chinese kids on television were rare. It was the mid-80s and as a young curious TV addict, a science program on Nickelodeon transported me to a world in which an old white man was king and a [...]

As the greatest scientific minds in the world once believed the world to be flat, we know that what we commonly believe to be a scientific truth is not always true. This week, Chinese scientists have cause to question the Out of Africa theory, the widely-accepted scientific theory that all modern human life originated in [...]