For thousands of years, Earth operated within a stable, forgiving range of conditions that allowed human civilizations to flourish. That stability might soon be a thing of the past. A new scientific ...

To promote its homebuilding and homeownership efforts, Habitat for Humanity of Northern Fox Valley plans to install 40 artist-painted sculptures around East Dundee, West Dundee, Carpentersville and ...

“Humans are taking colossal risks with the future of civilization and everything that lives on Earth.” So begins a report in Nature attempting to quantify Safe and Just Earth boundaries. The findings ...

Rebecca Charbonneau is a historian at the American Institute of Physics, College Park, Maryland, and the author of Mixed Signals: Alien Communication Across the Iron Curtain. As the electronic signals ...

For nearly fifty years, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has used radio telescopes to scan the heavens for signs of alien technology. But scientists still do not agree about whether ...