Cold War

Germany opened Monday a week of festivities marking three decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall, but a hint of a return of the Cold War and the rise of nationalism is dampening the mood. Leaders of former Cold War powers will be absent from anniversary f…

TORONTO – Hundreds of thousands of wood ants that were trapped in an underground bunker survived by eating the corpses of their nestmates, researchers say. The researchers detail their findings in a paper that was published last week in the Journal of Hymen…

Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage caption Actors have impersonated US soldiers at the site for nearly 20 years Authorities in Germany's capital Berlin have banned local performers from wearing US army uniforms at Checkpoint Charlie, the iconic Cold War cros…

TORONTO Hundreds of thousands of wood ants that were trapped in an underground bunker survived by eating the corpses of their nestmates, researchers say. The researchers detail their findings in a paper that was published last week in the Journal of Hymenopt…

Ten years ago it would be unimaginable to suggest that the United States could fracture into distinct blue and red stained nations, however with the dramatic increase in radical war rhetoric in politics, Leading Moral Psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes this…

Ten years ago it would be unimaginable to suggest that the United States could fracture into distinct blue and red stained nations, however with the dramatic increase in radical war rhetoric in politics, Leading Moral Psychologist Jonathan Haidt believes this…

In 1911, the San Francisco Examiner published a guide titled: How to Make Really Funny Jokes. According to author Professor Korski, a true joke is a very pleasant absurdity contrasting with ones habitual expectation. A joke does not merely cause laughter. Fal…

Key point: A Cold War warrior has found a new niche. Huge yet surprisingly sleek and agile, the U.S. Air Forces B-1 Lancer strategic bomberspopularly dubbed Bones for B-ONEcircles over battlefields in Syria and Afghanistan like angels of death dispensing GPS…

The Stasis main job was spying on ordinary people who were not in line with party policies and values, hauntingly depicted in the 2006 German film The Lives of Others. The Stasi Museum is in the agencys former headquarters in Lichtenberg. The three floors hol…

Norway said it has discovered 10 submarines of the Russian northern fleet heading toward the Atlantic Ocean in the biggest such operation since the Cold War.  The deployment began just before Russia's foreign minister and the commander of the northern fleet …