IT’S been nearly three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, but the communist nation’s horror history of science lives on. We unearth five of the most terrifying experiments conducted under ...

File this in the “what the fuck” annals of mad science history: Back in the mid-twentieth century, Soviet scientists did a series of experiements where they kept a dog’s severed head alive by ...

During World War II, Soviet forces trained dogs to carry explosives under Nazi tanks—a desperate attempt to halt Germany’s advance. Known as “anti-tank dogs,” these animals were meant to act like ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Sixty-one years ago today, the Soviet Union launched a dog known as ...

The Soviet Union sent its fair share of dogs to space during the formative years of the country’s space program, including Laika—the first animal ever sent to Earth orbit. Laika died during this ...

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 The ...

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 ...