For over a century, strange machining marks on Egyptian stone have defied explanation, showing levels of precision beyond even modern tools. Some researchers now connect this evidence to a dooms day ...

Fire is often considered the foundation of human technology, but there may be many worlds on which it would not be likely to practical, such an ocean planets, and on which intelligent life like ...

Firaxis has three in-house historians who do research for the games, but often hires outside consultants in areas where their ...

Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu explain why the internet failed to live up to its early promise. This is an edited transcript of “The Ezra Klein Show.” You can listen to the episode wherever you get your ...

Adult Swim's mind-bending animated sci-fi comedy "Rick and Morty" is eight seasons deep, and narrowing it down to its essential episodes keeps getting harder.

When you look back at ’90s and 2000s sci-fi, it’s amazing how one movie with a giant stone ring changed virtually everything. Stargate began in 1994 as a single big-screen adventure starring Kurt ...

Jeff Bezos used to talk about The Washington Post with real curiosity, and the things he said were interesting and specific.

The Unveiling of the AbyssThe recent unsealing of the Jeffrey Epstein Court documents has sent shockwaves through the global consciousness, yet to view this event merely as a sensationalist legal scan ...

AI will serve humanity only if we endow our creations with moral restraint rather than mathematical optimization.

The FTSE 100 (^FTSE) fell and European indices were mixed by the closing bell in London on Tuesday, while US indices were volatile, with a slew of big-cap tech firms' earnings on deck. Revenue at the ...