It was founded in 1931 to transform a desert area into a model metropolis by mobilizing the best architects, engineers and ...

In the early 1970s, the Cold War had reached a particularly frigid moment, and U.S. military and intelligence officials had a problem. The Soviet Navy was becoming a global maritime threat—and the ...

He applauded Hungary’s leaders for “using muscular state policy to achieve conservative ends.” Rufo isn’t the only one in the ...

On November 3rd, 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching the first living creature into Earth’s orbit: not a human, ...

Russia’s war of depopulation is worsening Ukraine’s demographic crisis; the population has fallen from 52 million in 1991 to 35 million today.

The climate-altering eruption came from the Zavaritskii volcano on an uninhabited island in the Pacific that once hosted a ...

These ships were ostensibly assigned to the Department of Marine Expeditionary Work under the Soviet Academy of Sciences, yet their operations aligned closely with military objectives, including ...

We are making additions to: Van der Laan, R., W. N. Eschmeyer & R. Fricke 2014 (11 Nov.), Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa Monograph 3882 (1), 1-230. DOI 10.11646/zootaxa.3882.1.1 Download ...

A Deadly Biological Weapon Unleashed. April 2, 1979. Another chilly spring day in Sverdlovsk, a city tucked away on the eastern slopes of the Ural Mountains, deep in the territory of the Soviet Union.

Reports claimed that China used to operate the Type 74 flamethrower, a man-portable weapon of Chinese origin with a design similar to the Soviet LPO-50. Entered into the service in the 1970s ...

with the result that in meetings of the Soviet Academy of Sciences the discussions dwell on proletarian science. As in Germany, "the Party" dominates. Dismissal from it amounts to academic ostracism.