Sometimes you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone. And that’s the thought-experiment author Alan Weisman presents in his book The World Without Us — TIME’s #1 Non-Fiction book of 2007. What if ...

"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 ...

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 ...

Humans can detect buried objects without touching them, sensing faint pressure ripples in sand. Scientists are calling this ...

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 ...

For most of Earth’s history, ice has been a rarity. Yet, modern humans evolved during an unusually cold period in the ...

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, ...

The answer: AI doesn’t need us for what we know; it needs us to understand what is worth knowing. Humanity holds a gift that no machine has mastered: the ability to create space. We can engage or ...

What would happen to the Earth if all humans suddenly disappeared? In his new book, The World Without Us, author Alan Weisman discusses how long... Imagining a World Without Humans What would happen ...