Not all of the uber-rich are believers in space travel, though. Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, told James Corden ...

It's no secret, technology is changing humanity and human society. We don't even know how much technology will come to alter our lives, but we can see that it is happening. We are glued to our phones.

Human civilization ranks 0.72 out of 3 on the scale of technological advancement, far from controlling planetary, stellar, or ...

A harrowing new climate change report warns we may be on the way to extinction, claiming there is a “high likelihood” human civilization will come to an end by 2050 unless action is taken on ...

Egypt on Saturday is inaugurating the Grand Egyptian Museum, aiming to boost tourism and revitalize the economy ...

Civilization on Earth will probably be killed off by one of three ways, scientists have concluded. Using math models, a team from the University of Rochester in New York, calculated what would happen ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Could a devastating comet impact in Earth's distant past have forever changed human civilization?

David Abulafia, The Boundless Sea: A Human History of the Oceans (New York: Oxford University Press, 2019), 912 pp., $39.95. MUCH AS we like to pat ourselves on the back about human progress, lots—if ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Human civilization has achieved some incredible things ...