This academic has theorized about what would happen if humans became extinct and reveals who our successor would be.

Gravity, in the literal sense, keeps everyone (and everything) on Earth grounded. It acts as the anchor that prevents objects ...

If humans were to die out tomorrow, how long would it take for nature to take over and overgrow most traces of our existence? After, like, 10,000 years, would you have to undertake an archaeological ...

Humans will likely go extinct eventually, leaving behind a planet that has to adjust in their wake. While there is no true consensus as to what a human-free world will look like, there are a number of ...

By learning from human touch, robots can grip objects more safely and adapt to real-world conditions without massive training ...

In your Sunday, June 29 VOP section, a writer claims that our current heat wave is partly due to climate change caused by burning fossil fuels. It is a fact that Earth's climate is changing, has ...

Chimpanzees show physical risk taking peaks in infancy, not adolescence, highlighting the powerful role of supervision in ...

In his wonderfully titled 2007 best-seller, The World Without Us, author Alan Weisman pondered what would happen to Earth without humans. If we were not around to maintain them, how soon would our ...

The moon's surface may be more than just a dusty, barren landscape. Over billions of years, tiny particles from Earth's atmosphere have landed in the lunar soil, creating a possible source of ...