Demikhov was a pioneer of heart surgery. But thanks to his other, unusual, "interests", that hardly ever gets brought up.

It was the birth of a new age. As industry had revolutionised the reach of progress, the scientists of the early 20th century would take centre stage in defining the limits of human understanding ...

Explore the shocking history of a Soviet doctor's experiment that created two-headed dogs. This bizarre and controversial scientific endeavor raises questions about the ethics of research and the ...

You know, we heap all kinds of praise on all of the humans who have been to space, especially the first ones, and rightly so — but where’s the love for the first mammal in space? That mammal, a Soviet ...

The Guardians movies are weird enough that the sudden presence of a telepathic Soviet dog is easy to accept, but let’s recap how she got here anyway. Photo: Marvel Studios Cosmo is a pretty new ...

1. A path of burning light -- 2. Animals in the heavens -- 3. The making of a space dog -- 4. Scouting the atmosphere -- 5. A face in the window -- 6. First around the Earth -- Epilogue Summary The ...

On March 9, 1961, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 9. This mission was a test flight of the Vostok spacecraft, which would later carry the first cosmonauts into space. Inside the spacecraft was a ...

AS WE celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (see “Apollo 11 only made it to the moon through diabolically hard practice“), it is easy to forget that the US’s bitter ideological ...

BATUMI, Georgia -- A stray dog in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has become an internet sensation after it was filmed helping groups of kindergarten students to cross a busy street. The dog was ...

BATUMI, Georgia -- A stray dog in the former Soviet republic of Georgia has become an internet sensation after it was filmed helping groups of kindergarten students to cross a busy street. The dog was ...