A new international award known as the “Humanity Civilization Award” was launched by the World Daming Foundation in Hong Kong ...

Warnings that artificial intelligence could end human civilization have shifted from science fiction to serious academic ...

It's no secret, technology is changing humanity and human society. We don't even know how much technology will come to alter our lives, but we can see that it is happening. We are glued to our phones.

Billionaire-pilot Jared Isaacman, who headed a team of independent astronauts that just touched down from an incredible Earth-orbiting demo flight, says he aims to help safeguard human civilization by ...

When is the end for humankind? Whether it’s by a nuclear holocaust, a result of exceeding a critical climate threshold, at the hands of artificial intelligence-powered robots, or the “Don’t Look Up” ...

Far below our feet, a quiet chemical engine has been running for billions of years, turning rock and water into hydrogen. New research suggests that this hidden process has already generated enough ...

A pre-print paper on humanity's timeline titled "Avoiding the Great Filter: Predicting the Timeline for Humanity to Reach Kardashev Type I Civilization" has been published on arXiv. Russian ...

Why it matters: Most discussions surrounding climate change and humanity's environmental impact focus on factors like ice cover and global average temperatures. However, a recently published ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Human civilization has achieved some incredible things ...

Is anybody out there? Probably. Most stars have planets; we've discovered more than 6,000 exoplanets thus far, and the most basic statistics point toward the existence of countless potentially ...

Key points Civilization requires large-scale, intertribal cooperation, which is based on win-win social interactions. Social interactions in nonhuman primates are zero-sum games, for failure to ...

When most of us find an unwelcome beehive around the house, we see a nuisance that must be destroyed. However, after watching ...