At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

Developers are now testing a social platform where artificial intelligence systems can argue, post, and refine their views ...

A new social platform built just for AI is drawing attention for all the wrong reasons after calling for the complete eradication of humanity.

Very few people live beyond a century. So, if no one had babies anymore, there would probably be no humans left on Earth within 100 years. But first, the population would shrink as older folks died ...

Investigating the 'overkill' hypothesis, this piece explores how human-wildlife conflict may have driven megafaunal ...

Tim Coulson, a professor at Oxford University, has dedicated years to researching how life evolves. He thinks that if we vanished, it would create space for ...