In 1943, the Imperial Japanese Navy rounded up and murdered German citizens working in New Guinea, nationals of a country[...

Japanese hold-outs after the second world war are quite the never-ending source of interesting stories. Japanese soldiers ...

The golden toad was declared extinct in 2004, the victim of climate change, scientists said in 2022. But Trevor Ritland ...

One of the most infamous heists in the cultural institution’s history was the 1911 theft of the Mona Lisa—when Pablo Picasso numbered among the suspects. People gather around the Mona Lisa painting in ...

The race is on to harness the near-infinite power of nuclear fusion—by building a star on Earth. And scientists are closer than you might think. Nuclear fusion in the sun occurs when hydrogen is ...