humanity
04/06/2024 - 12:27
Whenever international rules become meaningless, countries naturally seek safety in armaments and military alliances. Given events in... →
20/12/2023 - 15:57
In the old days, when government was viewed as the sole protagonist of space exploration, this line of argument was fairly straightforward... →
09/10/2023 - 18:08
Nasa's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) recently detected tantalising hints at life on a planet outside our Solar System - and... →
02/07/2023 - 18:18
“These scientists and experts have called on the world to act, declaring AI an existential threat to humanity on a par with the risk of... →
29/11/2021 - 20:51
In the late 1960s, Nasa faced a decision that could have shaped the fate of our species. Following the Apollo 11 Moon landings, the three... →
08/02/2019 - 16:43
But, Canadian journalist John Ibbitson and political scientist Darrell Bricker have found that these predictions may have missed the mark... →
03/11/2018 - 12:41
Martin Rees, the U.K.’s Astronomer Royal, and co-founder of the Cambridge Center for the Study of Existential Risk, warned in the report... →
31/10/2018 - 12:59
“We are sleepwalking towards the edge of a cliff” said Mike Barrett, executive director of science and conservation at WWF. “If there... →
24/09/2018 - 11:28
In his fascinating new book, “21 Lessons for the 21st Century,” the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting... →
29/12/2017 - 17:23
That includes the man who most recently popularized the idea, psychologist Steven Pinker of Harvard University, who calls the new findings... →
03/07/2017 - 12:04
The early Communist movement never rejected this broad premise. It was born out of a sense of betrayal by the more moderate left-wing... →
12/06/2017 - 14:35
However, according to astronomy researcher Chris Impey, this hunt for life beyond Earth may soon yield results. In an interview with... →