Deep under the western United States, two of the planet’s largest volcanic systems are quietly reshaping rock and gas. In ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Alan Saunders: This week we polish up a tarnished idea and ask whether it's really as tarnished as all ...

Civilisation is back. But it is no longer the preserve of the “Renaissance man” or of “the West”, or even of literate societies. Civilisation is a way of talking about human history on the largest ...

On a crisp winter morning in early 2026, hundreds of runners gathered at the Liangzhu Archaeo­logical Ruins in eastern China, a Unesco World Heritage Site da­ting back more than 5,300 years.

What sounds like a wild conspiracy theory could hold the key to finding alien life and help us measure our impact on our planet, they say. The new study hinges on a warming period 56 million years ago ...

The 1969 groundbreaking Civilisation series took viewers on an extraordinary cultural tour through the centuries. Lisa Kerrigan examines its origins and later influence on television documentary.

Over the last 25 years, ‘Western civilisation’ has come to substitute for Australian civilisation, which had been rendered effete, multicultural, and hence unserviceable. (Clarence01 / Getty Images) ...