When Napoleon marched his Grand Army of 600,000 troops into Russia in 1812, he commanded one of the largest fighting forces ...

In the winter of 1812, Napoleon’s once-mighty army left Russia battered, frostbitten, and starving. The infamous retreat claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, but until recently, no one could say ...

Genetic traces of Salmonella enterica and Borrelia recurrentis were identified in teeth from thirteen soldiers buried in a ...

Items signed by George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Walt Disney, Napoleon Bonaparte and many more of history's ...

George Washington signed letter dated February 20, 1790, addressed to a state governor, possibly North Carolina state governor Alexander Martin. O ...

The story of Napoleon's catastrophic retreat from Russia in 1812 may be being rewritten thanks to advances in genetic ...

An international team of scientists has successfully identified for the first time, with direct genetic evidence, the microbes that contributed to the catastrophic death toll among Napoleon’s soldiers ...

An ancient strain of plague ( Yersinia pestis) has been identified in a 4,000-year-old domesticated sheep. The study provides the first direct evidence linking livestock to the spread of this early ...

With black phosphorus, physicists measure the full quantum metric tensor and unlock a new view of electrons in solids.

At least 11 individuals – including children and adolescents – appear to have been skinned, defleshed, disarticulated, ...

Flores is the same place where archaeologists discovered the short-statured Homo floresiensis – also known as the 'hobbit' – ...

A spell with the Royal Shakespeare Company followed, as did an Academy Award nomination for her role as Clara Dawes in Sons ...