When you think about climate disasters, your mind probably goes to hurricanes or wildfires. Maybe you picture melting ice ...

New research suggests the Indus Valley Civilization was reshaped by centuries of river drought, migration, and climate stress.

Western civilization arose in Greece in the 8th century BC, when some 1,500 city-states emerged from a murky, illiterate ...

The fall of the world’s earliest cities has long looked like a riddle of vanished peoples and abandoned streets. A growing ...

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 ...

Will our own elites perform any better than the rulers of Chaco Canyon, the Mayan heartland, and Viking Greenland? Flames from the Caldor Fire crown in trees at Echo Lake, Calif., in August ...

For centuries, Europe has brought the progress of other men to a halt and enslaved them for its own purposes and glory; for ...

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving. I know I did. Those New York pigeons are actually pretty tasty. Now, since it's a holiday weekend, I thought we'd keep things nice and light. So let's talk about ...

“Hollywood has preconditioned us to expect one of two types of alien contact, either a hostile invasion force or a benevolent ...

Tech billionaire and Tesla Inc. CEO Elon Musk has once again expressed concerns about population collapse, terming it a bigger risk to human civilization than global warming. What Happened: Musk ...

Editor’s note: Marshall Brain – futurist, inventor, NCSU professor, writer and creator of “How Stuff Works” is a contributor to WRAL TechWire. Brain takes a serious as well as entertaining look at a ...