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The former capital of the Khmer Empire, the city of Angkor, may have been left to fall into disarray after its inhabitants tried unsuccessfully to battle a massive drought that plagued the lands. The kingdom, which flourished in Cambodia between the 9th to 15th centuries, has long since disappeared.
The massive urb... |
3 January 2012
08:59 GMT |
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Two researchers recently published a new scientific paper, arguing that intelligent lifeforms on other planets could reveal their presence to use through the lights their cities emit. While the proposal has a lot of merit, it's also worth remembering that it operates on an important assumption.
In order for the... |
4 November 2011
03:26 GMT |
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As more and more experts start to move from the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) to attempting to message alien civilizations (METI), critics are arguing that its safer to limit ourselves to observations. These critics are more useful to characterizing them than alien races. Since the dawn of time, the... |
11 July 2011
08:50 GMT |
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Scientists at NASA have lately began to wonder as to whether the planet-seeking telescope they operate would be capable of picking up signs of alien civilizations, and the artifacts that their macro-engineering of the Galaxy or the Universe would leave behind.
Some experts have proposed a long time ago that an an... |
14 May 2011
03:31 GMT |
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For the first time in more than 20 years, foreign, non-Iraki investigators carried out an expedition in the Tigris-Euphrates delta. The goal of the research was to assess the potential links between the resources that these wetlands provide, and the emergence of cities in ancient Mesopotamia. For centuries, this was ... |
1 April 2011
03:46 GMT |
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Scientists are convinced that, if a hypothetical alien invasion were ever to occur, it would most likely be carried out by robots, and not by organic creatures. Indeed, this scenario seems to make the most sense, if you are an advanced civilization able to travel within a galaxy, or between galaxies. If we were to se... |
11 March 2011
03:33 GMT |
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Last year saw the heating up of an interesting controversy between proponents and opponents to the idea of sending out radio signals in an attempt to contact alien civilizations. Since then, experts in the international scientific community haven't stopped talking about it.
There are many aspects to consider... |
7 February 2011
02:21 GMT |
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Given the wealth of recent studies showing that it wouldn't be at all impossible for other planets to host forms of life, it stands to reason that the international scientific community has began wondering whether actually going out of our way to contact extraterrestrial civilizations is indeed the way to go.For... |
10 January 2011
10:53 GMT |
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Investigators who search for signs of extraterrestrial activities and intelligence in the Universe are ready to start listening in again on distant worlds that were first surveyed some 50 years ago. At the time, the first search for radio signals emanating from other civilizations ended up with no tangible results, b... |
11 November 2010
02:16 GMT |
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In a recent announcement, a team of researchers from the Farsight Institute say that they have discovered evidence that life, and also artificial activity, exist on the Red Planet. The people here say that they have identified traces of a very large artificial dome in a recent image, and add the structure appears to ... |
23 August 2010
10:44 GMT |
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Experts working at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California, announced on Sunday that we may find alien life within a quarter of a century.According to SETI senior astronomers Seth Shostak, who spoke at the SETI conference over the weekend, proof that intelligent extr... |
17 August 2010
05:23 GMT |
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One of the theories scientists proposed on Saturday at the SETIcon conference that extraterrestrial civilizations may be more interested in our art than our science.The idea makes a lot of sense when considering that aliens would, most likely, be older and more advanced than we are. This would mean that, in an encoun... |
16 August 2010
02:25 GMT |
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One of the biggest issues in the field of archeology is the fact that ancient civilizations did not bother to leave behind a full account of their history. Rather, all that remained are shards and fragments of times long gone. Some groups of individuals are only known to have existed because they left behind certain ... |
30 July 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Some 60 years ago, respected Italian physicist Enrico Fermi set forth a very interesting problem. He asked the international scientific community to explain why we cannot see alien civilizations, if they exist somewhere in the Universe. The expert believed that we should be able to see signs of other intelligent life... |
26 July 2010
05:49 GMT |
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Renowned theoretical physicist and author Stephen Hawking recently said that we should avoid making contact with aliens, even though extraterrestrial life is sure to exist. The expert believes that the probability of other civilizations existing in space is very high, but ads that he fears an encounter would resemble... |
26 April 2010
03:41 GMT |
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Respected astronomer Frank Drake – the one who produced the famous equation of the same name – hypothesized more than 50 years ago that the Milky Way might be teeming with rocky exoplanets similar to our own. He made the prediction based purely on theoretical probabilities, and now new data of our galaxy ... |
13 April 2010
05:38 GMT |
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A long-forgotten South American civilization could hold the key to improve the agricultural practices of today. Between 700 and 1,000 years ago, this group produced a series of structures, and performed a number of landscape modifications that saw what were once considered to be barren wastelands turned into soils su... |
13 April 2010
05:06 GMT |
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At the junction of the Euphrates and Balikh rivers, in what is now northern Syria, archaeologists are discovering more and more details about a prehistoric civilization that lived here before the invention of the wheel. The location, called the mound of Tell Zeidan in the Euphrates River Valley, near Raqqa, has remai... |
7 April 2010
03:04 GMT |
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The everyday life of ancient Mayans has been a subject of speculation for many generations, mostly because there are very little records of this aspect of the old society. Most depictions that have endured up to this day are of official matters, and do not represent the actions and behaviors of the common folk. A new... |
10 November 2009
14:31 GMT |
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Central America was home to the Maya Civilization for more than 1,200 years. A vibrant culture, the Mayans lived in cities so densely packed, that they resembled modern-day metropolises such as Los Angeles. The civilization peaked around 900 AD, when everything seemed to be going well. All of a sudden, their culture ... |
8 October 2009
05:54 GMT |
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The Drake Equation (DE) was compiled in the 1960s by now University of California in Santa Cruz (UCSC) Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and Astrophysics Dr. Frank Drake, in an attempt to quantify the number of worlds in the Milky Way that might sustain extraterrestrial civilizations. Even if its results are erroneous,... |
17 September 2009
06:09 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that the earliest forms of agriculture may have had a significant impact on the overall climate and temperatures on a global scale, mostly on account of the fact that massive numbers of trees were burnt to give way to crop fields. As the trees burned, they also released ... |
17 August 2009
15:51 GMT |
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Since the beginning of mankind, people have been wondering where we came from and where we are headed, if we were made or if we evolved, the same questions that now spark heated debates among astronomers, as well as between creationists and evolutionists. In an attempt to answer this question, Kansas State Universit... |
10 June 2009
08:40 GMT |
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On Friday, authorities in Malaysia announced that excavations conducted in the northern part of the country yielded some interesting finds, in that researchers discovered iron smelt dating back to as far as the third or fourth century AD. This has major implications on the way historians viewed the evolution of civil... |
7 March 2009
07:00 GMT |
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