According to a thought-provoking paper by renowned systems theorist Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, human civilization may be approaching a similar transformative moment, or what researchers call a “planetary ...

Researchers Find Unique Rock Carving, Could Be One of the First Attempts by Human Civilizations to Depict Sky It seems that, like modern humans, ancient societies also had an interest in stories ...

An ancient glacier high in the French Alps has revealed the oldest known ice in Western Europe—dating back over 12,000 years to the last Ice Age. This frozen archive, meticulously analyzed by ...

A new approach When it comes to predicting humanity's future (and, by extension, advanced technosignatures), prior studies tend to have suffered from an inherent bias. In many cases, there is the ...

But first, to start thinking about what evidence a past civilization may have left behind, let’s think about what our civilization will look like in the far future.

Sam Altman thinks the technology underpinning his company’s most famous product could bring about the end of human civilization. In May, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman filed into a Senate subcommittee ...

Experts believe that the discovery of a 7,500-year-old civilization, along the coast in southeastern China, may have been the origin of one of the greatest maritime migrations in human history.