If there's one thing 'Star Trek' loves, even in times of peace, it's a scrap between Starfleet and the Klingons.

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And it’s truly black.” A hidden artery running through East Asia, the Kuro­shio has shaped life along its path for millennia.

In the early fourth century A.D., Rome was notorious for persecuting Christians. Yet the night before battle, Constantine ...

Ukraine’s domestic security service, the SBU, said Monday that it struck a Russian submarine in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk, causing critical damage to the vessel and effectively disabling it.

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He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave discuss an Earth-sized exoplanet, how ant colonies deal with disease and a possible link between volcanoes and the Black Death.

The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman ...