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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U.S. intelligence reports continue to warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to capture all of Ukraine and ...

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...

Climate shocks from volcanic eruptions may have played a key role in triggering the Black Death plague by disrupting harvests ...

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

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.

Oil revenue is a key part of Russia’s economy, allowing President Vladimir Putin to pour money into the war effort against ...

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 ...

Today, new educational efforts, including those led by the Black Operations Foundation, continue this legacy by elevating the histories of Afro Indigenous Americans and their contributions to the ...

The Black Death ravaged Europe, and scientists and historians are still working to understand how it became so deadly ...