In 1949, famed mathematician and physicist John von Neumann delivered a series of addresses at the University of Illinois, ...

Long before the first sparks of civilization — or even humanity as we know it — our ancestors were already inventors. On the ...

Mamdani became the first Muslim person to be elected mayor of New York City after being heavily criticized for his stance ...

The archaeologists that found the stone-paved chamber, located inside a hilltop fort in Scotland, still aren’t sure exactly ...

It has never worked, and is not likely to ever work given the catastrophic history this approach has demonstrated. Example ...

As archaeologists slowly excavate this ancient statue from the earth, they are, in a sense, awakening a witness to humanity's earliest attempts to comprehend the cosmos and to communicate with the ...

Ancient Greek thinkers, from Hesiod to Plato, and later Rousseau saw in the noble savage a vision of lost divine harmony and ...

Firaxis' attempt to right the ailing vessel that is Civilization VII continues, with its latest update bringing a major balance pass for all civs, plus a bunch of new systems designed to enhance ...

Shklovsky’s article soon expanded into a widely popular book called “ Universe, Life, Intelligence ,” published in 1962. That same year, the USSR’s Academy of Sciences sent its first radio message in ...

Civilization 7's creative director, Ed Beach, reveals a new community playtesting scheme that fans of the series can sign up ...