While the Chinese have been credited with the invention of paper some 2,000 years ago, this improvement takes the humble material to a whole new generation. A research team at the Shanghai ...

China's long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge, most noticeably gunpowder, paper making, printing and the compass, which, in the words of Roger Bacon, changed the whole ...

In fact, it’s the ingredients for paper – as it was made in ancient China, that is. At the time of its invention, life was hard if you had something you needed to remember. Legend has it that ...

All the best inventions were once in the concept stage, like something as simple as paper towels and something advanced like ...

Over a thousand years ago, people in the Northern Song Dynasty (960–1127) in China invented the world's first paper currency—Jiaozi. The advent of Jiaozi demonstrated to the world that objects ...

reading glasses and toilet paper? BBC Bitesize takes a look at these four everyday items and the surprising methods people used before they were invented. Toothpastes, as we know them today ...