Asia

Gigantic wooden statue is among world’s oldest monumental art

Researchers uncover unique kitchen in a 4000-year-old palace, where priests may have served up opium-laced potions for ceremonies

Fine-particle sentinels prod governments to curb emissions

Cheerland-Watson Center for Life Sciences and Technology faces funding and mission challenges

Qian Xuesen’s systems engineering permeates many facets of Chinese society

Mission would firm up China's status as a leader in x-ray astronomy

Mining of construction-grade sand linked to species declines

Water crisis and rising air pollution in Hamouns region are stoking tensions

Priests survived because they were taller than their animal sacrifices

Russian facility apparently botched the production of a radioactivity source for a physics experiment in Italy

As vaccine stockpile grows, a better formulation could also bolster response to widespread outbreak

Cases are the lowest ever, but the virus persists in sewage

Three decades after Iraq unleashed chemical weapons on Iran, scientists there are unraveling the long-term effects

Urgent efforts are underway to find better countermeasures to the potent chemical weapons

Discoveries may end debate on the role of environmental factors in the disease's global burden

Enmity between the two governments has frozen most engagement