Last year speculation mounted that the end of humanity as we know it could be nigh thanks to the growth of AI, and now ...

New UChicago Divinity School course uses religious texts and popular sci-fi to shed light on what it means to be human ...

A new analysis of fossils uncovered in Central Africa offers additional evidence that a human ancestor walked upright 7 million years ago.

A decades-old prophecy resurfaces as 2026 approaches, hinting at cosmic contact, hidden signals, and a moment that could ...

Humans have a predilection for doomsday predictions. Witness the much-hyped technological terror of the Y2K, or year 2000, bug, which failed to crash critical systems as projected, or the apocalyptic ...

In mid-January, Toby Ord, a philosopher and senior research fellow at Oxford University, was reviewing the final proofs for his first book, “The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.

Thirteen months after Cards Against Humanity initiated a $15 million dollar lawsuit against SpaceX for trespassing on land owned by the card game's creators, the two companies have reached a ...