The western Japanese city was levelled on Aug. 9, 1945, when the United States dropped a 10,000-pound plutonium-239 bomb, ...

When world traveler Richard Yelen of Kingston heard United Airlines was about to offer nonstop commercial flights between the ...

Scientists in Mexico are testing innovative methods they hope can be employed to locate the overwhelming number of people ...

ReadIt: Eighty years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the books that reveal the truth behind the mushroom clouds and why we must ...

Have I been mistaken for Andy Byron?  You know, he of Kiss Cam fame.  Because why else should I find in my inbox last week an invitation ...

America's incinerating of civilians in the atom bombs of 1945. Was that war, or war crime? asks Rosita Sweetman ...

For Sorokin styles himself the flamboyant ingrate heir to the Russian literary tradition. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov write ...

Today in History for Aug. 23: In 1305, Scottish leader William Wallace was hung, drawn and quartered in London for treason. Nearly 700 years later, his story was the subject of the Oscar-winning movie ...

How can sham treatments make us feel better or worse? Fascinating research is studying the placebo effect and its negative ...

The man had been swapping sodium chloride, or table salt, for sodium bromide for three months after consulting ChatGPT ...

The report comes amid growing scrutiny of such foods by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who blames them for causing ...

For a time, Fran Lopate — a Jewish mother of four from Flatbush — became America's most recognizable Italian spokesmodel.