As I sit here in my den, not wearing pajamas but leisure shorts and a bright red T-shirt instead, I’m thinking it’s time for a hot cup of java, most likely a cup of Eight O’clock, in memory of my ...

As modern civilization’s shelf life expires, more scholars have turned their attention to the decline and fall of civilizations past. Their studies have generated rival explanations of why societies ...

Sid Meier's Civilization turned 30 years old in 2021, which might make your bones hurt (it sure hurt mine). Every main entry in the series has had a new designer at the helm, starting with Sid himself ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The rate of growth of new technologies is ...

Imagine if, many millions of years ago, dinosaurs drove cars through cities of mile-high buildings. A preposterous idea, right? In a compelling thought experiment, scientists wonder how we would truly ...

Dawn DeDeaux’s exhibition The Space Between Worlds, on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art through Jan. 23, confronts our current climate crisis, peering into a future in which humanity must flee a ...