In late 1920, a Soviet research project produced the theremin, a bizarre new instrument whose ghostly sound would later ...

Soviet science has been in the public eye for the last two decades. The dramatic confrontation of Marxist theory and genetics epitomized the dangers of Communism as a thought-controlling system. The ...

During the Soviet era, Russian researchers experimented with large curved aluminum chambers known as Kozyrev Mirrors, based ...

SINCE the beginning of the nineteenth century science and technology have been playing a greater and greater rôle in shaping the lives of individuals, communities and nations. This has been true ...

In a house that eerily recalls the aesthetic of Her—modernist on the outside, studiedly rustic and artisanal on the inside—a young woman agonizes over whether she is human or a machine. She is a clone ...

Russia has never had a great image in the United States. Long before Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine, the biggest country in the world was notorious in the public consciousness for controlling the ...

During the Stalin years, there were tight restrictions on science fiction in the Soviet Union. Writers were pressured and boxed in, urged to stick to themes of adventure, space travel and the glowing ...

For almost 40 years—from the 1920s to the mid-1960s—Trofim Lysenko suppressed the study of genetics in the Soviet Union in favor of his own belief that traits acquired during a plant’s lifetime could ...