World War II: The Holocaust Alan Taylor October 16, 2011 45 Photos In Focus One of the most horrific terms in history was used by Nazi Germany to designate human beings whose lives were unimportant, or those who should be killed outright: Lebensunwertes Leben, or "life unworthy of life". The phrase was applied to the mentally impaired and later to the "racially inferior," or "sexually deviant," as

50 Years Ago: The World in 1961 Alan Taylor October 19, 2011 50 Photos In Focus A half-century ago, much of the world was in a broad state of change: We were moving out of the post-World War II era, and into both the Cold War and the Space Age, with broadening civil rights movements and anti-nuclear protests in the U.S. In 1961, John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as the 35th president of the United S

In Focus 31 Photos A Century Ago, the Paris 1924 Summer Olympics Images of the many events, athletes, and spectators at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Janice Lee, Thomas Williams, PHANGS Team In Focus July 16, 2024 16 Photos Two Years of Amazing Images From the James Webb Space Telescope A collection of images from the James Webb Space Telescope’s second year in space Dav