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Two Christian clerics in China faced the same brainwashing, yet one broke and one did not. The difference lay in culture...

How the "Battle of Awareness" hashtag was used to fill minds with nonsense, what propaganda really is, and how to protec...

From the legends of the Moon to its geology, tidal locking and what would happen if it vanished — a journey from Earth...

The stars are suns, and our Sun is a slow nuclear furnace — plus what would happen if it vanished, and why Mercury and...

Venus, the planet of riddles: named for the goddess of beauty, once perhaps like Earth, now a piece of hell with acid ra...

Earth, the blue planet and the only one currently home to intelligent life — its closed water cycle, its atmosphere, and...

Mars, the Red Planet — the 1938 radio panic, its seasons and frozen poles, and the wild theory that an intelligent Marti...

Jupiter has no solid surface, just a colossal mass of gas and liquids. A look at the largest planet in the solar system...

The series concludes with Uranus, Neptune and poor Pluto, which was struck off the list of planets, plus Eris, the dwarf...

Among all the weapons of psychological warfare, rumours hold a special place. How a silly rumour about the artist Mohame...

Vasily Zaytsev, the sniper of Stalingrad — and how the duel with Major Erwin König that never happened became one of his...

How Nazi Germany turned Nostradamus's quatrains into a weapon of propaganda in World War II, and how Britain answered wi...