By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-11-20 05:16:22 | Updated at 2024-11-20 07:35:18
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1. Is this popular Chinese herbal medicine for brain bleeds useless?
One of the world’s most influential medical journals, the 200-year-old Lancet, has published its first paper on herbal medicine, unveiling a study on a compound that is widely used in China for treating brain bleeds. The results were disappointing.
2. How Beijing flipped the South China Sea game with a single island
A massive base in the southern part of the South China Sea has made China the country with the fastest response time to emergencies in the region, according to a study by Chinese scientists.
3. How a Chinese spacecraft will catch Mars rock samples for journey to Earth
China is another step closer to bringing the first pieces of the red planet back to Earth with the development of a lightweight device to capture Martian rock samples in orbit.
