The geology of the ocean floor is truly spectacular — perhaps even more than land geology. Unfortunately, it's really hard to study.

Rock Island Arsenal-Joint Manufacturing and Technology Center completes a foundry pour in 2024. (Kendall Swank) When America mobilized for World War II, it turned factories into foundries and assembly ...

A set of top-secret WW2 maps that were crucial to the success of the Allied forces during the iconic D-Day landings was discovered in a cardboard box. The maps, which were snagged for a mere £10 ($13) ...

Eighty years since the end of World War II, the British are recalling many battles fought on the path to victory. Yet one ...

Amid grinding losses at sea, a wartime government approved one of the most bizarre engineering schemes ever attempted: a floating airbase carved from ice and reinforced with wood pulp. The plan called ...

In a narrow sense, the Admiral Hipper “won” the naval battle; it inflicted damage on the British convoy and escaped to fight ...

The Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED) recorded 204,605 conflict events from December 1, 2024 to November 28, 2025, resulting in over 240,000 deaths, in its newly released Conflict ...

A staff member at a U.S.-based think tank was reportedly fired last month for altering a Ukrainian war map that helped individuals profit from a prediction market. Prediction platform Polymarket ...

This summer, President Donald Trump told my colleague Michael Scherer that “America First” means whatever he decides it means. Now—as he blows up boats near Venezuela, amasses military assets near its ...

For nearly three years, Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, was a ChatGPT devotee. Then, late last month, he abruptly converted to Google’s chatbot, Gemini. “Holy shit,” he wrote on X. “I’ve used ...

Arguments about history are proliferating as the postwar order led by the United States crumbles. By Katrin Bennhold I’m the host of The World. In September, China held a military parade to ...

A new report on a lawsuit over canceled DLC for Aspyr's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 2 remaster has revealed some much bigger details about the KOTOR remake and what Lucasfilm Games has ...