22 January 2019
Adolf Hitler's deputy flew to Scotland in 1941 and was imprisoned for the rest of his life. But was the man in Spandau really Rudolf Hess? Now a DNA test has revealed the truth
4 October 2018
Dating timber used to build European houses between AD 1250 and 1699 reveals that building activity fell during the Black Death and the Thirty Years’ War
12 September 2018
The ancient town of Hasanlu was under savage attack when a chance event meant every detail was frozen in time. Finally the story can be told, and the assailants unmasked
5 September 2018
A 50th-anniversary screening of Planet of the Apes, the latest installment of Neil deGrasse Tyson's podcast, and a game where everything is left to the players to decide
11 July 2018
Mathematical models of conflict are seductive, but we shouldn’t throw out the lessons of the past, warns David Betz
8 May 2018
Ever since Colombia signed a historic peace deal with the FARC guerrillas, farmers and criminal gangs have been burning its portion of the Amazon rainforest
25 April 2018
The inhabitants of Sandby borg in southern Sweden were violently killed 1500 years ago, just decades after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
11 April 2018
The use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war may spark a US military response, after Russia denies Syrian government is responsible
23 March 2018
Small drones that can automatically spot, identify and target vehicles and people are planned by the US military, although humans would still be overseeing them
23 February 2018
Since the end of the second world war a “long peace” has prevailed around the world, but far from being a new era in history it could just be a statistical fluke
