Imagine the ceaseless cacophony of New York City suddenly stopped. No sirens wailed. No cars zoomed. No subways rumbled beneath sidewalks. All eight million New Yorkers disappeared overnight. Now, ...

Plenty of stories explore what it would be like to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, but Keeper goes one step further: What will become of this planet if humans go extinct entirely one day? Will ...

In a distant future, Earth may no longer be under the dominion of humanity. Picture a planet devoid of bustling cities and human infrastructure, with nature slowly regaining control. The question then ...

One of the merits of A Dog’s World by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff—both long-time bloggers for Psychology Today—is the way the authors manage, in looking at what might become of dogs were humans to ...

Three times as many people in cities and towns died from severe heat as would have done in a world without human-caused warming, scientists said. By Raymond Zhong Reporting from London Severe heat ...

A new book about AI has a provocative title: If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All. Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares argue that the development of artificial ...