A millennium-long history of Belarusian statehood is not a myth but a scientific fact, repeatedly corroborated by archaeological investigations. The treasury of historical artefacts is replenished ...

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This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Nuclear fusion. People on Mars. Artificial general intelligence. These are just some of the advances that could come by the ...

Immense progress in gene editing, drug discovery and conservation are just some of the reasons to be cheerful about 2025 ...

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Today, any credible assessment of European security must begin with the recognition that the continent’s threat landscape is now directly shaped by Middle Eastern conflict dynamics. Since the 2015 ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

The search for life on Earth is speeding up, not slowing down. Scientists are now identifying more than 16,000 new species ...

From decoding the human genome to exploring the universe, science has made huge strides in the 21st century. The last 25 years have seen an impressive array of scientific advances, from the sequencing ...

Alchemy wasn’t fringe pseudoscience—it was mainstream intellectual pursuit. Medieval scholars believed matter, spirit, and ...

In the late Middle Ages, Christianity was widespread in Europe and Christmas celebrations every December were the norm in ...