On February 9, 1945, two submarines are poised to engage in a direct, underwater confrontation. It's the first - and only - underwater submarine dog fight in recorded naval history. | Continue reading
On February 9, 1945, two submarines are poised to engage in a direct, underwater confrontation. It's the first - and only - underwater submarine dog fight in recorded naval history. | Continue reading
It's June 1945 and the USS Barb has just launched an unprecedented attack on the factories of the Japanese island of Shari. It's the first time that rockets have ever been launched from a submarine. | Continue reading
Bonnethead sharks enjoy a diet of up to 60 percent seagrass, as well as crab, shrimp, snails and bonyfish | Continue reading
But the appearance of new chemicals is creating an uncertain future for polar bears, orcas and seabirds | Continue reading
Diahann Carroll's award-winning series was a hit, but it delivered a sanitized view of African-American life | Continue reading
A British frigate fires on the USS Constitution - but its shots either miss or rebound off its tough oak hull. It's a feat of resilience that earns the American warship her proud nickname: Old Ironsides. | Continue reading
Some of the bowhead whales in the icy waters off of Alaska today are over 200 years old | Continue reading
For actress Nichelle Nichols, the first black woman to have a continuing co-starring role on TV, it was the beginning of a lifelong career in activism | Continue reading
During WWII, Nazi forces were preparing to take the coastal city of Tobruk and tighten their grip on North Africa. In response, the Allies turned their attention to another key strategic location: the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta. | Continue reading
Park hopes that its avian garbage collectors will encourage humans to properly discard their rubbish | Continue reading
The USS Barb had an unusual target in its sights in 1945 - one that wasn't even in the water. It was a Japanese supply train on the island of Karafuto. | Continue reading
After the Napoleonic Wars caused a shortage of British Oak, frigate builders looked all over the empire for an alternative. They found one in India: a hard, water resistant wood called teak. | Continue reading
At the height of the Cold War, America’s most secretive counterespionage effort set out to crack unbreakable ciphers | Continue reading
The USS Silversides is patrolling the Pacific during WWII when it finds itself in a terrifying situation: one of its torpedoes has jammed and is dangling out in the water, ready to explode. | Continue reading
Bombing ground targets from the air is tricky and not always accurate. But a new type of bomb creates an unimaginable level of destruction - and strengthens U.S. attacks in the Pacific. | Continue reading
The British Navy knew it couldn't completely disguise a ship to protect it from attack during WWI. So they turned to 'Dazzle Painting' which sought to disguise a ship's speed and direction. | Continue reading
Officials say images like these can help them learn how to better protect Brazil’s indigenous people | Continue reading
In 2011, declassified CIA documents shed light on a covert government program dating back to WWII. At its center was a submersible craft built for a hypothetical invasion of Japan. | Continue reading
The dig site found by metal detectorists 3 years ago appears to be a high-status homestead that once had two villas | Continue reading
A brief respite from the frontlines of the Pacific War sees American troops trying to inject a little comfort into their lives: from more habitable living quarters to enjoying the enemy's hidden supply of liquor. | Continue reading
A growing body of evidence points to how animals are aware of death and will sometimes mourn for or ritualize their dead | Continue reading
Christie's will sell the work from Paris-based art collective Obvious, which created ‘Portrait of Edmond Belamy’ with the machine-learning algorithm GAN | Continue reading
It's 1942 and the USS Silversides, a U.S. submarine submerged in the Pacific, is frantically trying to dodge depth charges dropped by a Japanese warship. Even a near miss could be catastrophic. | Continue reading
Road-tripping through prehistoric times on the West Coast | Continue reading
The founder of psychoanalysis collaborated with a junior American diplomat to lambaste the former president | Continue reading
Relive the aerial dogfights and naval clashes of the Battle of the Philippines Sea, thanks to stunning color footage. It is a visual record of the battle that underlined U.S. superiority in the Pacific. | Continue reading
A group of five adolescent male lions - dubbed the Musketeers - are wandering the desert looking to find their own kingdom. They come across a lioness, but not all seem interested in settling down. | Continue reading
Science confirms what you've always suspected: music these days is worse than it used to be | Continue reading
These horny buggers are actually here to help us fight the spread of disease | Continue reading
A group of orphaned lion cubs are facing an uncertain future. If they're to survive into adulthood, they will have to convince their reluctant aunt to share her kill with them. | Continue reading
On December 16, 1941, the Italian navy launched a daring attack on three British ships outside Alexandria harbor. At the heart of the operation was a unique weapon: a human torpedo. | Continue reading
To satisfy customers hungry for visions of the British colonies, these artists created wildly imaginative and inaccurate scenes | Continue reading
A sugar-sweet symbol for beat cops around the country | Continue reading
The same LIDAR technology that lets driverless cars | Continue reading
In late 1919 and early 1920, scientists and canners worked with the government to protect the public from the deadly toxin | Continue reading
The probe, which launches Sunday, will attempt to solve enduring mysteries about the sun | Continue reading
The ceremony itself was rooted in union-busting, laying the basis for the art vs. mass acclaim debate we see play out today | Continue reading
Researchers and archaeologists have recovered the remains of distinguished flyer Lawrence E. Dickson whose plane crashed during a mission in 1944 | Continue reading
Seminal research reveals that sperm change their cargo as they travel the reproductive tract—and the differences can have consequences for fertility | Continue reading
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine endorses the $1 billion Electron-Ion Collider | Continue reading
Before President Abdulla Yasmeen lost the country's election, his government ordered the demolition of the conservation-minded underwater sculpture garden | Continue reading
Black cooks created the feasts that gave the South its reputation for hospitality | Continue reading
Did members of a powerful society of warlocks actually murder their enemies and kidnap children? | Continue reading
CDC spreads the word about the peril of pee in pools | Continue reading
In this professor's class, there are no calculators. Instead, students learn advanced math by drawing pictures, playing with beach balls—and knitting | Continue reading
A revolutionary American scientist is using subatomic physics to decipher 2,000-year-old texts from the early days of Western civilization | Continue reading
In this professor's class, there are no calculators. Instead, students learn advanced math by drawing pictures, playing with beach balls—and knitting | Continue reading