A new study suggests that extreme temperatures could lead to a mass extinction event, ending the reign of humans and mammals ...

AI systems more intelligent than humans in some ways already exist – but general-purpose superhuman intelligence is probably ...

Scientists are on high alert as Donald Trump returns to the White House, with implications for climate change and research.

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So, although these fungi cannot literally infect humans, they have certainly extended their mycelia into the hearts of scientists and non-scientists alike. “My PhD was all about fungal complexity—how ...

Why is human culture—the shared body of knowledge passed down across generations—so much more powerful than animal cultures?

All 10 events – three tropical cyclones, four heatwaves, a drought and two floods – were made worse by human-caused climate change, say scientists ... the planet and destroy lives. ' ...

Human attempts to control the weather are gaining momentum, but hurricanes are simply too powerful to harness.

Researchers unveil the inner mechanisms of the most intricate and complex molecular machine in human biology. Scientists at ...

Everybody complains about the weather, but no one does anything about it,” Mark Twain used to quip, back when humans had only ...

Humans are social ... told New Scientist. “Basically, with the computational resources we have and the money we have, we [were able to] simulate up to thousands of agents, and there was no sign at all ...