What if you could time-travel a hundred years from now. How would the planet look like? Would human beings still be in the picture? Only in the past year, our civilization had to face several dreadful ...

Between 750 and 900 CE, the population of the Maya lowlands in Central America experienced a major demographic and political decline which, according to the scientific literature, coincided with ...

Researchers are still puzzling through what happened to the ancient Maya civilization, which mysteriously dwindled. New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Esben_H/iStock/Getty Images Plus) The Fermi paradox asks: If there are other civilizations in the Universe besides ours, why ...

Unless humanity makes drastic changes to its current path, the end of civilization could be alarmingly close, according to alarming research. Two scientists warn rampant deforestation and the ...

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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 Fermi paradox asks: If there are other civilizations in the Universe besides ours, why haven't we yet made contact? Researchers who study this paradox – also called the Great Silence – generally ...