For Missouri residents, Marvel Cave represents a treasure in your own backyard worthy of repeated visits. For travelers, it offers an experience you simply cannot find in many other locations—a ...

A study reveals that Sumer, the cradle of civilization, rose because of natural tidal irrigation that shaped the world’s ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. He thinks ...

Ancient Greeks encoded the secrets of their civilization in ways hidden in plain sight, shaping a legacy that endures through ...

New research shows that the rise of Sumer was deeply tied to the tidal and sedimentary dynamics of ancient Mesopotamia. Early ...

BEIJING -- A think tank report on a new vision of civilizations with development at its core has sparked discussions among scholars from home and abroad. The report, titled "Theory on the Development ...

If humanity navigates the coming decades with foresight and wisdom, by 2100 we could indeed enter a post-scarcity era—one ...

The deleterious impact of technology on everyday life is generating a growing backlash in Western societies. At its most ...

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.

This is the last of three blog posts associated with this week’s episode of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, which addresses life in the universe. Read the first and second here. Someday, in the not too ...

It is as bitter a piece of social irony as the unhappy marriage in Edith Wharton’s “A Custom of the Country.” I do not know why it should be so, but afsensitive man sacrificed at the altar is always a ...

Australia’s First Peoples may or may not have hunted the continent’s megafauna to extinction, but they definitely collected ...