Warnings that humanity is heading toward its own disappearance have shifted from the fringes of science fiction into mainstream research and public debate. Instead of vague prophecies, scientists now ...

In a popular sci-fi cliché, one day artificial intelligence goes rogue and kills every human, wiping out the species. Could this truly happen? In real-world surveys, AI researchers say that they see ...

Neural Requiem launches on Xbox Series X|S and PC, delivering cinematic sci-fi action as one soldier battles a ruthless AI to ...

The millions of species humans share the world with are valuable in their own right. When one species is lost, it has a ripple effect throughout the ecosystems it existed within. But there’s a hidden ...

Purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. "Dark Skies is the first work to assess the full impacts of space expansion, past, present and future. Thinking about space, and the visions ...

The extinction of the Pleistocene megafauna may be people’s fault after all, according to a recent study. A team of archaeologists recently examined animal bones at sites dating to the waning years of ...

The story began on a winter night in January 2007. Under the soft glow of a desk lamp, Hu Jiaqi carefully placed 52 weighty letters into kraft paper envelopes. Enclosed together with each letter was a ...

Colossal Biosciences, an American biotechnology company, announced the "de-extinction" of the dire wolf, a prehistoric wolf species that died out more than 10,000 years ago, in April 2025. Three pups ...