"One of the most exciting aspects of studying dogs centers on their marked differences in behavior, personalities, and how they adjust to living in a human-dominated world." The fate of dogs gone wild ...

One of the merits of A Dog’s World by Jessica Pierce and Marc Bekoff—both long-time bloggers for Psychology Today—is the way the authors manage, in looking at what might become of dogs were humans to ...

Plenty of stories explore what it would be like to survive in a post-apocalyptic world, but Keeper goes one step further: What will become of this planet if humans go extinct entirely one day? Will ...

Humans have spent centuries shaping the world. But nature wouldn’t hesitate to take over if we suddenly disappeared. Cities would crumble, and forests would spread. And certain species would rise to ...

In a distant future, Earth may no longer be under the dominion of humanity. Picture a planet devoid of bustling cities and human infrastructure, with nature slowly regaining control. The question then ...

Imagine the ceaseless cacophony of New York City suddenly stopped. No sirens wailed. No cars zoomed. No subways rumbled beneath sidewalks. All eight million New Yorkers disappeared overnight. Now, ...

Rebecca Newberger Goldstein argues that a good life is one that seeks to create order out of a natural state of chaos.

In 1997, at age 19, Toby Kiers talked her way into the Smithsonian's renowned tropical research institute on Barro Colorado, an island in the middle of the Panama Canal. The scientists studied the ...

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk sees a potential future where AI has eliminated poverty.

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