Humanity has always lived with risk, but for most of history those dangers were local, temporary, and survivable. What has changed is that our technology, our numbers, and our impact on the planet now ...

As humanity progresses through time, there’s a growing curiosity about how much longer we have on this planet. While we continue to make strides in technology, science, and society, could our ...

Like the dinosaurs who lived here 245 million years ago, everything that lives must end. Yet saying this doesn’t make it easy to imagine the end of humanity, just as it must have been hard for the ...

Belief in the end of the world is more common than many assume, and it quietly shapes how people see global threats. New research reveals how and why societies respond to crisis.

Sir: Not quite long ago, there was a spark of invention in the mid-20th century that promised to make life easier, smarter, and more efficient. In the early 1950s, scientists like Alan Turing and John ...

Philippe Sands, one of the world’s pre-eminent human rights attorneys, grew up in the shadow of bleak times. He worries that history is taking an unfortunate detour. Credit...Nadav Kander for The New ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humanity continues to move closer to catastrophe, scientists said Tuesday, Jan. 27. The human race is at its closest point yet to ...

Humanity continues to move closer to catastrophe, scientists said Tuesday, Jan. 27. The human race is at its closest point yet to destroying itself, according to the reset of the ominous but symbolic ...