On 6 February 2025, China’s State Council, working with the Ministry of Education, issued a decree considered historic and ...

On Sept. 15, 2020, for the first time in Scientific American's 175-year history, the popular science magazine made a presidential endorsement -- Joe Biden.

On Sept. 14, 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 2 -- known informally as Lunik 2 -- became the first Earth-launched space vehicle to ...

Starting in 1956, a peculiar challenge emerged for the Soviet military authorities. Hovering high above their territories, countless reconnaissance balloons presented more than an inconvenience. These ...

The first actions often began with acts of vandalism. Monuments, including one in Ukmergė, Lithuania, which had been unveiled ...

In July 1944, after a chaotic withdrawal from Narva, the Nordland and Netherland SS divisions, alongside Flemish and Estonian allies, faced a massive Soviet offensive on the Tannenburgg line.

A listening device hidden in an artwork in 1945 was undetected by US security for seven years – and it's not the only example of art having been manipulated for subterfuge.

Ukrainian special forces successfully detected and destroyed a Russian Buk-M3 anti-aircraft missile system in the occupied ...

** When you buy products through the links on our site, we may earn a commission that supports NRA's mission to protect, preserve and defend the Second Amendment. ** Partisan bands had a rag-tag ...

Oleg Lyalin was a somewhat hapless, hard-drinking KGB agent, who provided so much information to MI5 in 1971 it led to the ...

Igor Kirillov, the Soviet newscaster who anchored the USSR's main evening news for three decades, has died at age 89. Russians laid to rest today the man known as the face and voice of the USSR. Igor ...