An obscure theory of elementary particles proved to be key to China’s re-emergence as a scientific nation after the Cultural ...

Victories against once-dominant players from Japan made Nie Weiping, who died Wednesday, a national hero, and helped spark a ...

Ever read a book and felt a chill run down your spine because something in it seemed too familiar? Like maybe the author wasn ...

Today, as Greenland once again becomes a strategic prize, history seems poised to repeat itself. Staying with the Polar Inuit means refusing to speak of territory while erasing those who inhabit it.

The brother and uncle of Syrian tyrants, he commanded a unit that killed up to 40,000 civilians in a 1982 uprising against ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

In 1978, the USSR warned the Pentagon that a nuclear powered spy satellite had lost control and was coming down with its reactor still active. When Cosmos 954 scattered radioactive debris across ...

The 1983 sci-fi miniseries V features an ominous storyline where the media is undermined by a bigger force, making it feel ...