This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Battle of the Somme opened on July 1, ...

Friday July 1 marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the Battle of the Somme. Somme, estimated to be the bloodiest in World War I, lasted for five months. The first day of the battle was the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The cover image on the issue of Scientific ...

THIEPVAL, France (AP) — A 100-year-old trench, its edges now smoothed over by verdant overgrowth, snakes through a French meadow. Craters carved by bombs in the Battle of the Somme still pock the ...

As the sun rose over the valley of the Somme River in northern France on the first of July a century ago, the soldiers of the British Empire began their charge on the entrenched Germans. It would be ...

Most of Newfoundland's regiment was wiped out the first day of the Allied offensive on the Somme. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Maureen Power, a curator at the provincial museum about their legacy.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... BELLOY-EN-SANTERRE, FRANCE — In the end, Alan Seeger’s bones could no longer be distinguished from those of his Foreign Legion comrades who had fallen ...

Overnight in London, an honor guard stood vigil at the grave of the Unknown Warrior. On Friday morning, across Great Britain, citizens observed a moment of silence. And midday Friday, at a quiet field ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. British troops advancing through front line trenches during the Battle ...

On July 1, 1916, the first shots were fired in what would become one of the bloodiest engagements in human history, the 141-day Battle of the Somme. It was nearly two years into what was then being ...