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 […]
Chinese More Likely To Be Web Addicts
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 […]
Tigers Eat Tiger at Shenyang Zoo
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 […]
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. […]
‘Tianchi Monster’ Caught on Film
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. […]
China Clones Rabbit From Fetal Cells
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 […]
Big Bird Fossil Found in North China
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 […]
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 […]
Did Modern Man Come From China?
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 […]
Making Paper Out of Panda Shit
Researchers in southern China are working long and hard trying to solve one of science’s great mysteries. No, not time travel. And not the phenomenon of Shanghainese people puking on the street all the time. Although I’m waiting for someone to solve that mystery. Researchers at the Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding […]