World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance Declaration Having met in Durban, South Africa, from 31 August to 8 September 2001, Expressing deep ...

Ben Cao Gang Mu (《本草纲目》 (Compendium of Materia Medica)) is the most complete and comprehensive medical book ever written in the history of traditional Chinese medicine. Compiled and written by LI ...

Sasanian textiles are celebrated in Classical, Islamic, and Chinese sources as highly valuable commodities exchanged along the Silk Roads and which likely influenced the production of many imitations.

The Borobudur Temple Compounds is one of the greatest Buddhist monuments in the world, and was built in the 8th and 9th centuries AD during the reign of the Syailendra Dynasty. The monument is located ...

Acupuncture and moxibustion are forms of traditional Chinese medicine widely practised in China and also found in regions of south-east Asia, Europe and the Americas. The theories of acupuncture and ...

This article is the third in a series on the spread of disease along the Silk Roads which examines the ways in which people have historically responded to illness and explores how we might approach ...

After the historic disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic, most schools are back open worldwide but education is still in recovery assessing the damage done and lessons learned. Education: The pandemic ...

The termini, or start and end points, of the various routes which made up the Silk Roads were often sites of intense interactions and exchanges resulting in the formation of large cosmopolitan cities ...

The government of Ontario, Canada launched a basic income pilot in 2017. Though it was cancelled prior to official analysis in 2019, researchers were able to gather data and make findings about the ...

The trustworthiness of science should not require scientific expertise to assess. Trustworthiness should be based on the presence of expertise, good expert community functioning, and shared values.

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) can serve as a public infrastructure with open, democratic principles, though proactive deliberation is needed to avoid ensuing losses of agency, sovereignty and ...

This e-team is dedicated to exploring and addressing the global challenges of the digital divide — the gap between those who have access to digital technology and the internet and those who do not, as ...