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

In 2014, the British philosopher Nick Bostrom published a book about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) with the ...

With the possibility of Mother Nature completely wiping us out, a supercomputer analyzed various pieces of data relating to ...

The Atomic Rocketeer — a new feature documentary co-directed by Larry L. Sheffield— tells the story of a German rocket ...

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. ' ...

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 ...

The scientists achieved this sustained nuclear reaction, the first created by humans, on Dec. 2, 1942 ... it was possible to create and control a nuclear chain reaction at all. The Project decided to ...

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

Perhaps more frightening is the blow-by-blow result of the impact, which scientists were also able to reconstruct. According to the study, the asteroid would have displaced all of the water in the ...

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