The United States once sold itself as a radical bet on human equality, self-government, and the rule of law, a political experiment that promised ordinary people control over their own fate. Two and a ...

During the first half of the 20th century, Europeans were subjected to extreme human brutality. Millions of people were killed in the first World War, millions of people were killed by communists ...

Researchers view Bikini Atoll on a map during a scientific seminar organized aboard the USS Chilton, part of the 1947 Bikini Resurvey Project. Credit: University of Washington: Special Collections ...

The life of an astronaut comes with a lot of poking and prodding. Artemis 2 astronauts will be studied for how sleep, stress and radiation shape human health in deep space during their moon mission ...

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Stetson Manuel assembles the Ghost-X drone during the human-machine integration experiment for Project Convergence in Fort Irwin, Calif., on March 11, 2024. (Staff Sgt. LaShic ...

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones, who later ...

The closest thing to utopia the world has ever seen might have existed in a Maryland barn for a couple of years during the late 1960s: a complex built for rodents as part of a science experiment. The ...

Some of the best horror films are inspired by true events. Take, for example, 1974’s blockbuster hit “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre,” which was based on the life and crimes of killer Ed Gein in the ...