ALTOS DE CAMPANA NATIONAL PARK, Panama — Brian Gratwicke’s lunch box was full of frogs. Kneeling on the muddy rainforest floor, the biologist opened his red Coleman cooler and scooped one up. It was a ...

How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? The A.I. researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks. This is an edited transcript of ...

Science journalist Lizzie Wade’s first book, Apocalypse: A Transformative Exploration of Humanity's Resilience Through Cataclysmic Events explores some of the cataclysmic events that humans have faced ...

Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. Worldwide search traffic has fallen by 15 percent in the past year, estimates Similarweb, a digital intelligence platform. The ...

Last spring, the entertainment and lifestyle website Bustle saw huge spikes in traffic for a handful of stories — between 150,000 and 300,000 search views each, compared to the usual 1,000 or less.

Last summer, New York’s Film Forum opened a 4K restoration of Les Blank’s “Burden of Dreams,” a documentary about the torturous creation of Werner Herzog’s “Fitzcarraldo.” This weekend, the theater is ...

The Bell UH-1 Iroquois—a.k.a. the “Huey”—is the main character in what may be the film’s most iconic scene. Apocalypse Now is generally regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, period. And as ...

Scientists said we haven't made enough progress addressing existential threats. Scientists and global leaders revealed on Tuesday that the "Doomsday Clock" has been reset to the closest humanity has ...

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced on Jan. 28 that the hands of the Doomsday Clock are moving forward, to 89 seconds to midnight—the closest it has ever been to apocalypse. “The world has ...

I don’t believe in prescience. I don’t believe, for instance, that when Octavia E. Butler began to write her 1993 novel, “Parable of the Sower,” she was working with a kind of second sight. In recent ...

In 1985, when I was 9 years old, I watched the first episode of the new Twilight Zone, a reboot of the classic early-1960s TV series. People rarely talk about the ’80s version, which ran for just ...