Compare this to the natural background rate of one extinction per million species per year, and you can see why scientists refer to it as a crisis unparalleled in human history. The current mass ...

Now, the New York Times has published a piece arguing in favor of human extinction. Professor of philosophy (of course!) Todd May believes that we should go the way of the dodo because we are ...

What will save us from catastrophic artificial intelligence development? Global collaboration, regulation and, of course, education.

New evidence suggests humans hunted the bear and drove it from caves, putting it on the road to extinction. The fate of the species was sealed by other pressures, such as the onset of the last Ice ...