Patrick McGovern, a renowned scientist and passionate lover of fermented beverages, brings the history of ancient brewing alive with this fun, tempting and thought-provoking book, Ancient Brews: Rediscovered & Re-created. McGovern is director of the Biomolecular Archaeology Project at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. For more than three decades he's been a pioneer in archaeological chemistry-a field that combines old-school fieldwork with cutting-edge technology such as mass spectrometry and DNA analysis.
Part of Beijing's core area, including the Palace Museum, is seen from Jingshan Park. FENG YONGBIN/CHINA DAILY
Pabst Blue Ribbon in the fridge. Conference rooms named after Internet memes. And walls covered with blackboard paint. Take a look inside Facebook’s new Silicon Valley headquarters, located on the former Sun Microsystems campus with room for 7,000 employees.
PHNOM PENH - Cambodia and China have signed three Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) on environmental protection and biodiversity conservation.
PHE has called on smokers and a number of health promotion bodies to act on the new e-cigarette evidence. Measures put forward include allowing e-cigarettes to be sold alongside nicotine replacement therapies in hospital shops. At the same time, PHE wants to see the removal of smoking shelters provided at some hospital premises where cigarette smoking is permitted.
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PYONGYANG - The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Monday confirmed it test-fired another medium-range ballistic missile on Sunday.
PBOC moves to stabilize economic growth in nation, say experts
PYONGYANG - Leaders of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States had "constructive and candid" talks in Hanoi Thursday and will "continue productive dialogues" to address issues of mutual concern, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported Friday.
Palestinians have cut off all contacts with the Trump administration after the president broke with decades of bipartisan policy to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in December 2017.