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The aggressive take-off profile of the Soviet TU-144 supersonic passenger airplane (right) vs. the French-British Concorde (left).At its peak, the Anglo-French Concorde was the epitome of technological prowess and super sleek design in 20th-century aviati...

It is the largest and most famous desert on Earth. Only Antarctica is bigger, but we do not think of an ice-covered continent as a desert in the typical sense. Most people associate a desert with the scorching sun, lack of rain, and sand, lots of sand. O...

Ian Bremmer warns this could be a particularly ugly week in the Russia-Ukraine war. Subscribe to GZERO on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2TxCVnYIan Bremmer's Quick T...

To celebrate our 25th anniversary, the Nexus Symposium 2019, ‘The Magic Mountain Revisited’, revolved around the themes and music from The Magic Mountain. As if Settembrini and Naptha were alive today, Bernard-Henri Lévy and Aleksandr Dugin debated on sta...

The Chicago and Sanitary Ship Canal is the path that invasive carp would take to reach the Great Lakes. So to stop them, the US Army Corps of Engineers has installed an electric barrier. Although for obvious reasons, I didn't get to see it close up.

The speed and magnitude of the climate change we are facing today is unprecedented. Heatwaves, droughts, floods... We are feeling its effects on our daily li...

Perhaps someone will call the story of this widely-loved and certainly respectable Japanese brand amazing,. It is inspiring, but at the same time it’s a typical fairy tale about a poor boy from a large family of an ordinary fisherman, who influenced the c...

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As the powers of Europe began to grow and expand throughout the world’s history, colonialism became the forefront of this expansion. Over time, almost every non-European nation became a colony of one European nation or another at some point.Only a few cou...

The A-10 Thunderbolt II is best known for two things: the GAU-8 30 mm rotary cannon in its nose, and its ability to destroy tanks. Unpopular when first intro...

Can an A.I. think and feel? The answer is no, but to two Google engineers think this isn't the case. We're at the point where the Turing test looks like it's been conquered.

Air taxi developers present their electrically powered mini airplanes as a new, sustainable form of air transportation. But there is still a long way to go f...

In the early hours of May 25, 1944, hundreds of Waffen-SS paratroopers dropped into Josip Broz Tito’s headquarters with the support of Luftwaffe airstrikes. ...

The USA never liked citizenship by investment which is a method of obtaining citizenship of a country through investments in specific industries approved by the government. This includes real estate and economic contribution through donation. We see how t...

Spanish, French, Arabic, Mandarin, English, and other languages are often considered international languages because they're spoken all around the world. Other languages, like Italian, have a large Italian speaking population in Italy, but the other regio...

2 It's a year to the day since the Taliban entered Kabul unchallenged and took control of Afghanistan, transforming the lives of millions of people.Taliban fighters have been parading in the streets as a national holiday has been declared to mark the ann...