Podcasters Josh and Chuck recently discussed how humans are just "89 seconds" away from global catastrophe as per the metaphorical timer called the Doomsday Clock. The duo talked about the same in ...

April 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. During a long period of protest before 1975, several local ...

In her new book, “The Ideological Brain,” the neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod outlines what makes some people prone to rigid ...

The Pentagon has sped up production of its latest gravity bomb in the latest sign that mankind is headed into the scariest nuclear arms build up since the end of the Cold War.

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nuclear weapons testing unnecessary.

Behind the headlines, and largely unreported, the basic measures of human well-being have continued to improve in recent ...

Extinction is the greatest disaster that humanity must avoid. While that may seem a simple enough task, it is also a ...

Climate action isn’t as politically popular as it used to be — but it doesn’t have to be that way. Climate activists have ...