James Kim was a respected expert on bleeding-edge digital devices, an owner of a trendy clothing store, and a lover of the futuristic-sounding music known as electronica.

Yet most of Kim’s life revolved around traditional values, according to friends: sacrifice, friendship and family. Those who knew him say they aren’t surprised that Kim, in the last [...]

Born in 1839 in the Netherlands, Tinne had a relatively comfortable childhood (her parents were wealthy merchants). Allowed by them to travel widely, she became fluent in languages and developed a desire to explore further. Her father died when she was very young (he had been 65 when she was born), and her mother decided [...]

A special edition of Radio 4’s long-running counterfactual history series, What If..? imagines the consequences had the D Day landings failed on 6 June 1944, taking over from where From Dunkirk To D Day left off.
As General Dwight Eisenhower knew only too well, the Normandy landings were an enormous gamble. On the eve of D [...]

It’s widely accepted that the intelligence the Allies gained from Enigma shortened the war by several years, and saved the lives of thousands of troops and civilians.
With hindsight it’s surprising that the German High Command never realised that their master code had been cracked and was daily being monitored by the Bletchley Park codebreakers - [...]

“We’ve found it,” said Michael Meyer, NASA’s lead scientist on their Mars Exploration Program. “Water seems to have flowed on the surface of today’s Mars.” Philip Christensen, a professor from Arizona State University in Tempe, added that the discovery would change NASA’s plans for Mars exploration, not to mention our understanding of the desert world [...]