A Japanese submarine, the I-52, sank in 1944 carrying two tons of gold intended for Nazi Germany. Lost for decades, its wreck ...

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues 3I/ATLAS and other interstellar objects may hint at alien technology, drawing fame, ...

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Scientist Oskar Fischer made major contributions to Alzheimer’s disease research, but antisemitism led to his marginalization ...

The deeper we explore humanity’s past, the harder it becomes to sustain some of the most powerful political myths of the ...

The person who should have been best able to explain how we got here was the great German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, who illuminated how a feisty, principled public sphere is integral to democracy.

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Divers solved an 80-year mystery off the Italian coast and found the forgotten resting place of World War II service members. The last physical ...

Despite losing in the runoff, his relative success capped a growing realization in Germany that voting for the far right, even within living memory of Adolf Hitler, is no longer considered taboo. A ...

GOG, the DRM-free PC games storefront formerly known as Good Old Games, has issued an official apology on X for “an unfortunate visual association” that was spotted in its latest newsletter for the ...

BERLIN – Many German families have faced the uncomfortable question: What did grandpa do during World War II? Now, the answer may be just a few clicks away – but it may not be what they wanted to hear ...

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