How could the principle of "radical mundanity" proposed by the Fermi paradox help explain why humans haven't found evidence ...

At Egypt’s Elephantine Island, newly examined granite artifacts reveal machining marks that some experts believe couldn’t ...

The Milky Way contains a modest amount of alien civilizations, a new paper proposes — and there's a reason we aren't seeing ...

To write his latest book Dinner with King Tut, Sam Kean joined a group of experimental archaeologists who learn by doing. These researchers aim to recreate the sites, sounds, smells and tastes of lost ...

Introduction : our cultural Amnesia -- Adena, first civilizers of North America -- Who were the Adena? -- The keltic fingerprint on prehistoric America -- Hopewell masters of ceremony -- Who were the ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most ...

In the next episode of our annual What the Hell’s summer book series, we are time traveling around the world with experimental archeologist, Sam Kean, who shares with us his latest science narrative ...