The Battle of Kursk was a catastrophic defeat for Germany; the Wehrmacht suffered around 200,000 casualties and lost nearly 700 tanks and 1,000 aircraft. These losses were irreplaceable.

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

The fierce and bitter conflict on the Eastern Front, lasting four long years, would produce its own special brand of soldier, ...

Vladimir Putin sent greetings to participants and organisers of the 2025 International Silk Way Rally. The message reads, in part: “I would like to welcome you in Irkutsk where the International Silk ...

In 2025, Steppe Agroholding abandoned the use of imported pea seeds in its production. Last season, the share of seeded peas of domestic breeding was about a quarter of the total volume, and in the ...

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Male Japanese quails produce a strange seminal foam that appears to enhance the chances of successfully fertilizing an egg.

Carl Zimmer writes about the results of a new genetic study of humans and the diseases that afflicted us over the past 37,000 year ...

The cataclysmic Battle of Poltova in the tumultuous reign of Peter The Great.

The Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) is a nocturnal and arboreal rodent that inhabits the boreal taiga forests from ...

His future looked grim until Alice, a domestic Pony of the Americas who’d recently lost her newborn, accepted him as her own.

Incentives matter in other kinds of conflict, too. Pirates of the 18th century were also keen to avoid fighting. Not only was ...