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Scientists Suggest US Embassies Were Hit With High-Power Microwaves

Edl Schamiloglu 27/12/2020

High-power microwave weapons are useful for disabling electronics. They...

A student displays his hands painted with messages as he poses during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign to mark the International AIDS Candlelight Memorial, in Chandigarh

What We Can Learn From the KGB’s Big AIDS Disinformation Campaign in the 1980s

Mark Kramer 27/05/2020

The Russian spy agency propagated conspiracy theories that the...

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How Music Has Made Auditory Surveillance Possible

Gabrielle Cornish 29/08/2019

Music – specifically, the technologies we use to create,...

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How NASA Worked Around Earth’s Radiation Belts to Land Apollo 11 on the Moon

Margarita Safonova 09/06/2019

Some people believe we never went to the Moon...

HIROSHIMA MUSHROOM CLOUD NUCLEAR BOMB EXPLOSION

Science as a Cold War Propaganda Tool

Mark Wolverton 23/03/2019

In 'Freedom's Laboratory'," the historian Audra J. Wolfe explores...

Earthrise the First. Credit: NASA

50 Years of the Iconic First ‘Earthrise’ Shot

The Wire Staff 23/08/2016

Earthrise was captured by the Lunar Orbiter 1 mission,...

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Listen: Tick-tock, Tick-tock, Say Hello To the Doomsday Clock

Padmaparna Ghosh and Samanth Subramanian 18/05/2016

Meet the 15 people whose job it is to...