Long before the first airplanes took to the skies, humans had already overcome gravity with the help of airships. Starting with crude hot air balloons, the 18th century saw the development of more ...

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Nuclear armament of the U.S. and the USSR in the 1940s; establishment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact; the Space Race; the Cuban ...

Lost for nearly 80 years, the Brazilian warship Vital de Oliveira, sunk by a Nazi U-boat in WWII, has been identified off the ...

Readers respond to the latest dire polling for Labor, Dutton’s nuclear power hopes, and Donald Trump’s Ukraine negotiations.

Last week I took a look a the military service from the American Revolution to the Civil War of the people elected to the ...

You may have seen a submarine returning to port with a Jolly Roger flag waving from its mast. It turns out this is part of a ...

A Norwegian explorer sails across the Pacific on a wooden raft, braving storms, sharks, and doubts to prove an ancient sea ...

German election: Why are voters voting for the far-right? The Alternative for Germany Party (AfD) is polling in second place ahead of the country's federal election.

German voters will elect a new government on 23 February after Chancellor Olaf Scholz's coalition collapsed. Main issues include immigration, economic recession, and the rise of the far-right AfD.

Divers recently discovered the wreck of a German ... that the submarine had gone down, too, some experts remained skeptical, as its wreck was never found. Could UC-18 and its 28-man crew have ...

To leave a lasting impression, villains not only have to present a real challenge to the hero, but they also have to evoke ...