A genome project for newborn babies was launched in Shanghai on Sunday, to aid the early identification and treatment of hereditary diseases.
Being obese or overweight in middle age will make people's brains "10 years older" than those of their leaner counterparts, a new research has revealed.
A news conference for the upcoming awards gala for the winners of the 2016 Young Peking Opera Performers Challenge was held at a music hall in the CBD of Beijing on August 7.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, suggest brains that continue to perform well in old age, against odds that they are slower and less accurate in short-term memory compared to those of younger people, do so by rallying more of the brain to complete mental tasks.
As one of the programs of "Sfax, Capital of Arab Culture 2016", the third Chinese Arts Festival opened on August 3 in Sfax.
Archaeologists have discovered around 1,000 cliff paintings dating back more than 1,000 years in northern China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Whether the casting is historically accurate or racially blind, Hollywood screen choices will be dictated more by market forces.
A collective of cultural shows and musical performances from China won applause Friday on the opening day of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe (The Fringe), the world's largest arts festival.
Archeologists have discovered over 1,000 cliff paintings dating back more than 1,000 years in North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region.
Singer and songwriter Leah Dou, daughter of Chinese musicians Faye Wong and Dou Wei, was spotted working part-time at a coffee shop in Beijing.
A stage adaptation of Chinese writer Liu Cixin's award winning Sci-fi novel "The Three-body Problem" has turned the futuristic world, where the earth is invaded by aliens, into a reality but still leaving enough room for the imagination.
An exhibition featuring 165 pieces of lacquer paintings from 92 artists was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, on August 1.