What if you could time-travel a hundred years from now. How would the planet look like? Would human beings still be in the ...

Humanity stands at a turning point where artificial intelligence, biotechnology, climate change, and space exploration could ...

A new study explores multiple scenarios and concludes that civilizations are more likely to collapse when they consume resources faster than they can regenerate them ...

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Successive major droughts, each lasting longer than 85 years, were likely a key factor in the eventual fall of the Indus Valley Civilization, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment ...

It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the physicist who helped build the first nuclear reactor and whose name graces a unit ...

The ancient Mayan civilization had its origins in the Yucatan Peninsula, in a vast region of Mesoamerica encompassing what today is southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western ...

The following is an editorial by Armstrong Williams. Civilizations rarely collapse all at once. They erode slowly morally, spiritually, and culturally long before the final political or economic ...