From a new study clearing an ancient queen’s name to a leap in computing power, here are some highlights from SCMP’s recent science reporting.

Recent archaeological excavations of ancient Chinese tombs have unearthed a hidden 4,000-year pattern, revealing a ...

As the cradle of democracy, rational philosophy and theater, Greece laid the foundations of Western thought. It influenced ...

Class 7's Ganita Prakash Part 2 revolutionizes math learning by connecting modern concepts to India's rich mathematical ...

On October 24, 2025, the "Rhythm of Numbers Across Millennia •Dialogue with the World" —— The Series of Commemoration Activities for the Anniversary of Liu Hui's Birth successfully commenced in Seoul, ...

The earliest documented solar eclipse is recorded in the ancient Chinese text *Shujing*, describing a celestial event where "the Sun and Moon did not meet harmoniously in Fang." Initial scholarly ...

It should come as no surprise that the first recorded use of the number zero, recently discovered to be made as early as the 3rd or 4th century, happened in India. Mathematics on the Indian ...

The Artificial Intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, appeared to improvise ideas and make mistakes like a student in a study that rebooted a 2,400-year-old mathematical challenge. The experiment, by two ...

Scientists in China have discovered one of the oldest known matrilineal societies—where family lines and inheritance are traced through a community’s women, not its men. Archaeologists unearthed the ...

Studies of ancient DNA have generally found that societies in Neolithic and Bronze Age Eurasia were organized around the male line. However, investigation of the Fujia archaeological site in eastern ...

In the four decades since its discovery, the Fujia archaeological site in east China’s Shandong province has repeatedly proven fertile ground for researchers. Located in the lower reaches of the ...