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In the summer of 1924, Palace Square in Leningrad - today St. Petersburg - became the setting for a remarkable human chess ...

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Early in the Cold War, even as the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in a relentless nuclear arms race, they treated ...

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The F-35B is a thoroughly American aircraft, and while its design is independent, some analysts have noted similarities to ...

In the fall of 1988, a U.S. spy plane recorded a strange light phenomenon—known as the “Dome of Light”—following the launch ...

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the ...

The Lunokhod 1 rover stopped communicating in 1971 and was considered lost for decades, but a laser experiment detected a signal in 2010.