In a new study published today in Science Advances, my colleagues and I have uncovered the earliest evidence of rice in the Pacific Islands—at an ancient cave site on Guam in the Mariana Islands of ...

Rice cultivation emerged through a complex interplay of cultural innovation and environmental opportunity, spanning at least 6,000 years in the Yangtze basin and radiating across Asia. Early ...

From the air, Yongfeng village in southwest China's Sichuan Province looks like a green grid drawn across the Chengdu Plain. Neatly arranged paddies are connected by irrigation channels and farm roads ...