Earthlings, brace yourselves: the galaxy may be emptier than your last Tinder date. According to a new study, any alien ...
It is one of the most famous questions in science, and it was asked, as legend has it, over lunch. Enrico Fermi, the ...
Global temperature increases over the past thirty years, visualized. Credit: NOAA/NCEI Earth's average global temperatures have been steadily increasing since the Industrial Revolution. According to ...
Our search for extraterrestrial life has turned up empty, perhaps because technologically advanced civilizations are doomed ...
Across deserts, jungles, and polar ice, new discoveries are quietly stretching the story of civilization further back in time than many of us learned in school. As archaeologists debate mysterious ...
“Great civilizations are not murdered. Instead, they take their own lives.” The great historian Arnold Toynbee concluded this in his 12-volume magnum opus A Study of History. It was an exploration of ...
James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...