Physicist Brian Clegg, author of " Armageddon Science: The Science of Mass Destruction ", was recently interviewed by Salon . Amo...

Back in June I blogged about the potential dangers arising from space storms that could spawn devastating solar flares . This is no joke, no...

Michael Anissimov of Accelerating Future is feeling a bit doomy these days—and for good reason. He argues that we're collectively under...

A U.S. bi-partisan commission is warning that the world will "more likely than not" face a terrorist attack using nuclear or biolo...

The latest episode of the Sentient Developments Podcast is now available. Alternative audio formats are also available. This episode: Con...

Walter L. Wagner and Luis Sancho are pursuing a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court to prevent Geneva's Large Hadron Collider from being sw...

Humans tend to have an extremely distorted view of risks. We tend to be bothered by low probability but high profile threats, while often co...

Conventional futurist wisdom suggests that if our atmosphere should completely go to pot -- which it certainly appears to be doing -- human...