Driven by the 1925 Scopes trial and Soviet anti-religious propaganda, Ilya Ivanov attempted to breed a human-chimpanzee hybrid in 1927 to prove evolution.

A Russian researcher, who died from an unknown illness, worked at a remote anti-plague facility. Few foreigners have visited ...

Russia has never had a great image in the United States. Long before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, the biggest country in the world was notorious in the public consciousness for controlling the ...

Every year, an estimated 13 million people go whale-watching around the world, marveling at the sight of the largest animals ever to inhabit Earth. It’s a dramatic reversal from a century ago when few ...

pt. I. The tsarist period. 1. Russian science before 1800. 2. Science in nineteenth-century Russia. 3. Russian intellectuals and Darwinism -- pt. II. Russian science and a Marxist revolution. 4. The ...

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Hidden files have exposed how the Soviet Union spent decades covering up its building building and stockpiling of biological ...

It is all too easy to focus on the deficiencies of Soviet science. Ask Soviet scientists themselves and they will readily recite a laundry list of their research system's failings. Perhaps the ...

After the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki demonstrated the power of nuclear weapons, the Soviet Union accelerated a secret program to close the growing technological gap with the United ...

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