Biographies offer a chance to explore the decision-making and circumstances around some of history’s most fascinating ...

Patrick Radden Keefe, a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine and author of "Empire of Pain," will speak at the University ...

Volga, the producer of those pug-ugly retro slugs used by the Russian secret police, has been propped up with grants by banks. ZiL faces a dodgy future without the regular orders from the KGB and ...

The practice of illegal gambling was spurred on by the Great Depression — a dark time in United States economic history, which lasted from 1929 to 1941, when individuals became desperate to ...

Sex testing of athletes has its roots in the Nazi influence on the 1936 Olympic games, according to this revelatory debut investigation. Journalist Waters recaps the early years Continue reading ...

This is what the death of a dynasty looks like. New faces, unable to fully capture the rhythm of an offense with precise timing. Old faces, unable to capture championship form that created the ...

To understand the potential of a decentralized cloud, we need only look at the history of the Linux operating ... This time, we have a secret weapon: nodes, consensus, block rewards, public ...

Throughout history queer relationships have existed ... Based on the book, "The King's Assassin: The Secret Plot to Murder James I," the Starz period drama is about the Villiers — mother and ...

Surely among the best-known buildings in the whole of human history, the Pyramids of Giza are some of the ... The cathedral clung onto the record for 238 years, the Empire State Building managed ...

Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, harbors a dark secret: extremely young ice ... lead author of "History of Ceres's Cold Traps Based on Refined Shape Models," which appears in ...

The work of the neuroscientist Ishmail Abdus-Saboor has opened up a world of insights into precisely how much pleasure and pain animals experience during different forms of touch. Ishmail Abdus-Saboor ...

We all love a beach on a sunny day but no one wants to be cheek by jowl, towel by towel or stuck queueing for an overpriced car park. But if you’re prepared to work a bit harder, there’s a ...