Experts in traditional Chinese medicine are calling for caution over the use of some products that contain cinnabar, or mercury sulfide. A Sina Weibo user verified as a doctor at Beijing's ...

Call it nature’s plastic: chinese lacquer, which is harvested from Rhus verniciflua trees in the south and hardens when exposed to the air, is a remarkable substance. When cinnabar is added ...

In a first-of-its-kind discovery, archaeologists in China have unearthed the 2,200-year-old burial of a woman whose teeth had been painted with cinnabar, a toxic red substance. Cinnabar is a ...