Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

Developers are now testing a social platform where artificial intelligence systems can argue, post, and refine their views ...

Have you ever found yourself in a museum's gallery of human origins, staring at a glass case full of rocks labeled "stone tools," muttering under your breath, "How do they know it's not just any old ...

Almost half of the processes that are crucial to maintaining the stability of the planet have become dangerously compromised by human activity. That is the view of an international team of 18 ...

This is the unsettling arc of Homo sapiens, from a precarious African species to the first creature capable of reshaping Earth’s climate and biosphere. Drawn from Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth ...