A war weapon used in World War One went on to become a key component in treating blood cancer with chemotherapy ...

By closely analyzing US intelligence before June 25, 1950 (the war’s official start), and the actions of key players like John Foster Dulles, General Douglas MacArthur, and Chiang Kai-shek, the great ...

Smallpox was eradicated in 1977. This amazing, global public health achievement isn’t just a page in a history book or an ...

In February, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, my traveling companion and I boarded the Tazara, the acronym used fondly by its riders to refer to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. The journey felt like stepping ...

The biological agent at the center of the case is Fusarium graminearum, a toxic fungus known to cause "head blight" — a disease that devastates crops like wheat, barley, maize, and rice. According to ...

Introduction A Natural History of Rape: Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion by Craig T. Palmer and Randy Thornhill MIT Press $28.95 251 pages ISBN: 0262201259 ...

It was June 6, 1944, when the Allied Forces launched mission D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in military history, storming the beaches of Normandy, France. This monumental operation marked the ...

Friday marks 81 years since D-Day, the first day of the Normandy landings that laid the foundations for the Allied defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Food has become not just a human need, but a point of pressure – and history shows that when hunger plays out in war, the moral line is often perilously close to being crossed.

China has been accused of unleashing agro-terrorism in the US after federal prosecutors accused two of its nationals of smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen that can be used as an agricultural ...