Modern societies would be impossible without mass-scale production of many man-made materials. We could have an affluent civilization that provides plenty of food, material comforts, and access to ...

STUDENTS of contemporary civilization may find an analysis of modern Germany a particularly fruitful and rewarding study. Nowhere will they discover the forces which contend for mastery in a modern ...

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” – is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. He’s also author of “The Doomsday Book: The Science ...

BEIJING, 8 June (BelTA - China Daily). - On Friday, Chinese President Xi Jinping delivered a keynote speech at a symposium on cultural inheritance and development in Beijing. Xi's speech ...

For 4.5 billion years, the Earth’s climate has constantly changed. When the last ice age peaked around 20,000 B.C., the Earth was mostly inhabitable with a cold, dry and windy climate. Humans were ...

THE prison door opens, light streams in, and a harsh voice says: “You are free. You can go!” “Free?” exclaims the prisoner. “What do you mean, free? Where am I to go?” “You are released, the door is ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, researchers have uncovered an ancient structure that rivals the size of some modern cities.

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Rise and Fall is now available for purchase. It is the first expansion pack for the turn-based strategy game Civilization VI, the most recent mainline version of the ...