Anatoli Bugorski survived a proton beam to the head
On June 3, 1978, Soviet physicist Anatoli Bugorski was checking malfunctioning equipment on the U-70 synchrotron — the…
Chinese scientists have bad news on having babies in space. But there is a silver lining
If the future of humanity lies in the vast expanse of space, could humans actually perpetuate the species…
America’s only landing on Venus was an accident — in 1978 NASA dropped four cone-shaped probes into the Venusian atmosphere, none built to survive hitting the ground, and one of them struck the surface, kept transmitting for 67 minutes and 37 seconds, and very likely still sits there today, the only American craft ever to land on Venus.
The Soviet Union spent the 1960s and 1970s building Venus landers, titanium tanks engineered to survive the solar…
On 5 March 1982, the Soviet Venera 14 lander reached the surface of Venus, ejected the protective cap from its camera lens, photographed the surrounding terrain — and then lowered its mechanical soil-testing arm directly onto the discarded lens cap, returning a clean measurement of the compressibility of Soviet plastic instead of Venusian rock.
The Soviet Union launched Venera 13 and Venera 14 in late 1981 with the objective of surviving long…
Ukraine hits fuel supplies to Crimea, sparking a fuel crisis on the Russian-held peninsula
FILE – Tourists walk along an embankment in Sevastopol, Crimea, Monday, May 2, 2022. AP Photo/ FILE –…
Moldova leader pushes back on Putin offering passports to Transnistria residents – POLITICO
She suggested it was one of Russia’s tactics to threaten Moldova over its efforts to reintegrate Transnistria, a…
Poland and Russia Can’t Stop Arguing Over History. Does it Matter?
RZESZÓW, Poland — In a quiet park in the center of this southern Polish city, tourists stop to…
Putin humiliated as Russia begs ‘veterans and Soviet soldiers’ to fight | World | News
Russia’s desperate attempts to bolster its military forces have reached a new low, as officials in the Leningrad…
Ex-FBI chief Robert Mueller, who probed Russia-Trump campaign ties, dies
WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert S. Mueller III, the FBI director who transformed the nation’s premier law enforcement agency…
Semyon Gluzman, Soviet psychiatrist sent to the gulag for exposing bogus diagnoses of mental illness
Semyon Gluzman, who has died aged 79, was the first Soviet psychiatrist to blow the whistle on the…