"Ronald Reagan wanted to do it long ago, but the technology just wasn't there," said Trump.
Researchers found organic glass in the skull of a volcano victim, indicating the extreme and unique environment triggered by Vesuvius's eruption in 79 CE.
Historical texts, from official records to personal chronicles, are revealing how 16th-century weather shaped Transylvanian society.
Researchers in Poland have found more evidence of violent cannibalism in the wake of the coldest period of the last Ice Age.
One of King Harold's manors appears twice in the famous Bayeux Tapestry, but only 948 years later have researchers finally identified the building's remains.
During the 1960s, the feds asked fresh-out-of-school physicists to try to build a nuke with no prior knowledge.
The shocking violence was likely an attempt to dehumanize and "other" the enemy, according to archaeologists.
Researchers suggest that when Roman legions were at the empire's remote northern frontiers, they relied on local craftspeople for equipment repairs.
The tablet could predate the earliest known evidence of writing in the Caucasus region by over a thousand years, hinting at a potentially lost script.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has alarmed neighboring countries and Sweden's bringing back its guide to surviving war.
Four clay cylinders inscribed with what might be the oldest known evidence of alphabetic writing are 500 years older than other early alphabets, according to new research.
A skeleton found in a well in 1938 appears to be the exact individual mentioned in a centuries-old text, complicating researchers' understandings of the genetics of southern Norwegians.
An American tech fair in Moscow during the Cold War featured a robot vacuum secretly operated by remote control.
DNA testing has confirmed that the remains in a Spanish cathedral belong to the explorer, but his exact origins are still unknown.
A rich knight likely paid a handsome sum to import the ornately carved monument, despite brutal conditions in the Jamestown colony.
The grisly remains were found where a Seventh Coalition field hospital stood during the battle, which marked the end of Napoleon's military career.
While there's no conclusive proof that prehistoric Scandinavians used skin boats, there's a boatload of circumstantial evidence.
The 8mm film was stored in a milk crate and ignored for decades.
Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire gives us a rare example of viewing the world of Star Wars through a critical lens.
It wasn't just scientists who were worried, but Congress, the White House, and even Sports Illustrated.
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