1943 The Battle of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world’s largest tank battle, continues in the village of Prokhorovka, between Russian and German forces. The Soviets will win ...

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 04. Check what happened ...

Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...

The letter originally in German was later translated into English by theoretical physicist Herbert Jehle, with help from ...

This sense of urgency culminated in a 1939 letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt written by fellow physicist Leo Szilard and signed by Einstein.

Landauer's principle is a thermodynamics concept also relevant in information theory, which states that erasing one bit of ...

They included such luminaries as Albert Einstein, Edward Teller, Leo Szilard, John von Neumann, Hans Bethe and Stanisław Ulam among many others.

The second world war changed Budapest for ever How a city that once nurtured intellectuals and artists lost its lustre ...

Washington itself hasn’t solved the problems that fed into Taiwan’s nuclear phase-out: waste storage and high costs.

In his new book “Everything Must Go,” Dorian Lynskey recounts two millennia of apocalyptic predictions. Amazingly, it’s not depressing.

Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

Richard Flanagan’s brilliant ‘Question 7’ defies categorization Flanagan’s profound book interweaves personal memories with historical and philosophical reflections about the sad, wondrous ...