Military robots operated by remote control are known as Uncrewed Ground Vehicles (UGVs). The earliest model was the Soviet Teletank, used during the invasion of Finland from 1939. The Russians fitted ...

The Iranian barrage of more than 300 missiles and drones aimed at Israel on April 13th—its response to the deadly air strike two weeks earlier at the Iranian diplomatic compound in Damascus—could not ...

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The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily ...

The latest news in US politics, with coverage of Joe Biden and the Democrats, Donald Trump and the Republicans plus daily ...

In its visceral portrayal of anguish, Käthe Kollwitz’s “Frau mit totem Kind” (“Woman with Dead Child”, pictured) was unlike any previous depiction of the Virgin Mary cradling the body of Jesus Christ.

The temperature determines precisely when cicadas come out; the soil temperature eight inches deep must reach around 18°C. When that happens, usually sometime in May, they mature, emerge, mate, lay ...

In a paper published on April 12th in JAMA Health Forum, a medical journal, researchers from the University of Pittsburgh and Boston University analysed data on permanent contraceptive procedures ...

For each generation there is a simple narrative: that boomers were shaped by post-war plenty, for example, or millennials by ...

The firm became the laughing-stock of Wall Street in 2020 when it accidentally wired $894m to creditors of Revlon, a failing ...

Mr Zhang is luckier than many. He lives in his own apartment with his wife (88). Hangzhou is one of China’s richest cities.

Cairo is on its way to becoming America’s newest ghost town. Its population, having peaked above 15,000 in the 1920s, had ...