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 ...

Proposed federal rules would rely on political appointees to decide how a lot of U.S. science gets done. History shows the consequences of such actions.

In 1970, Soviet scientists began drilling into the ground on the Kola Peninsula in the far northwest of the country, hoping ...

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 ...

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 ...

J.P. O’Malley is a journalist based in Budapest. In the final chapter of “Stalin and the Scientists,” Simon Ings recalls how by the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union boasted twice as many scientists as the ...