A Lancet commission ranks 17 major threats to health through 2100, with nuclear war and malicious AI carrying real risk of human extinction.

A quarter of a billion years ago, long before dinosaurs or mammals evolved, the predator Dinogorgon, whose skull is shown here, hunted floodplains in the heart of today's South Africa. In less than a ...

Malicious use of AI and nuclear conflict pose the biggest threat to human extinction by the year 2100, global experts have warned. Co-chaired by Dr Christopher JL Murray, director of the Institute for ...

Billionaire investor Mark Cuban put an unusually grim question to Grok on Sept. 14 in a post on X. If humanity faces an extinction event within the next 25 years, is artificial intelligence (AI) or ...

Due to the accelerating pace of AI development, Neanderthal de-extinction may become technically possible within years.

The Lancet’s “21st Century Global Health Threats Commission” has warned that if nuclear war and malicious use of AI were to ...

Discovered in Montana in 2016, the cherry-size coprolite contains feathers, bones and evidence of the bird's last meal before ...

The artificial intelligence tool set the probability of human extinction mercifully lower than the predictions of AI ...

Giant tortoises once pushed to the brink of extinction now outnumber humans in their home of the Seychelles, according to a ...

As nightmare thought experiments shape the fight over how to govern a multitrillion-dollar industry, some experts say the parables may lead decision-makers astray.

According to a recently published study in Meteoritics & Planetary Science, researchers dated zircon crystals from the site ...