Jack Knudson is an assistant editor for Discover Magazine who writes articles on space, ancient humans, animals, and sustainability, and manages the Planet Earth column of the print issue. View Full ...

Famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was once asked, “What was the first sign of human civilization?” You might think she would have mentioned prehistoric cave drawings, the discovery of fire, or ...

Let’s see how if alien civilizations will ever reach us. Half of the universe is filled with expansionist alien civilizations, and it’s only a matter of time before they’ll reach us. OK, that sounded ...

Civilization: Beyond Earth was a satisfying strategy game that expanded and improved on Civilization formula in a lot of interesting ways, and the game will soon be getting even deeper, with the ...

I was 100 turns into Sid Meier’s Civilization VII, when I conquered almost the entire continent that I started on. I began my hands-on preview humbly as Persia in the Antiquity Age before expanding ...