The technoscientific ambition to improve human beings, as promoted by transhumanists, is the ultimate expression of the ...

Current planetary crises, from climate change to famine, epidemic disease, and overpopulation, starkly inform us that we are not managing our evolution well. A rogue state like North Korea holds up a ...

Today, as predictive policing, biometric surveillance, and algorithmic profiling silently erode human dignity, we must ...

The evolution of Hell was complex—from Hebrew Sheol’s shadowy stillness to Dante’s fiery abyss, which shaped Western views of ...

The government has earmarked £1bn to pioneer new military tech powered by AI – which, says Sean O’Grady, is exactly how the ...

My initial impression of the second season of HBO Max's The Last of Us was an overwhelming feeling of being underwhelmed. How ...

For years, the dominant narrative held that modern humans arose from a single, unbroken lineage in Africa. But then came ...

Academic scholars tend to use Marxian terms when pointing out what they see as conditions of “oppression,” believing that ...

In groundbreaking work from the University of Warwick, researchers have found that wild orangutans vocalise with a layered complexity previously thought to be unique to human communication, suggesting ...

It was already getting dark and I sat down to enjoy the sunset,” said Harold Berghuis, an archaeologist at Leiden University, ...