Dystopias

If there's one thing society can agree on, it's that going through airport security and waiting to board a plane sucks. From arriving...

Each year the Global Footprint Network (GFN), an international environment think tank, assesses how much of the Earth's resources...

Companies are manufacturing computer-generated influencers-slash-models to sell you on their products.

Facebook has secretly used billions of publicly available photos on Instagram to teach software how to better identify objects.

If you thought erasing historical events like Tiananmen Square from search engines and instituting facial tracking across the country...

Like a collapsing star, Stephen Hawking's death has left a black hole in our hearts. Though the man himself is gone, his words live...

What a time to be alive.You've heard of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Now get ready for a series of billboards that...

We all know how zombie apocalypses kick off. All it takes is one infected patient escaping quarantine before a deadly disease starts...

While sci-fi has been portraying technologies like human genetic modification and cognitive enhancers for decades, real-life...

Orphan Black had quite a few crazy revelations last night--M.K. is officially a Helsinki survivor! Rachel is letting Charlotte die!...

How could the human population be decimated in the next half-decade? Researchers from Oxford’s Global Priorities Project who were...

Reddit may be an idiosyncratic, self-selecting community, but it's still a pretty good barometer of the public conversation of the...

These are the Sci-Fi 10 movies scientists can't get enough of.

On AMC's Humans, eerily human-like androids called Synths have become staples in every household, as ubiquitous as iPads and iPhones....

Mark Zuckerberg wants us all to live in The Circle.

After Chinese scientists edited the genetic material of human embryos for the first time, the White House calls for a moratorium on...

Will Stephen King's inflammatory predictions come true?

Geneticists in China modify the genomes of embryos for the first time in history, re-igniting an ethical debate.

The titular self-aware robot in Neill Blomkamp's Chappie has been getting all of the attention in the media lately, with AI experts...

How will the human race meet its end? There are many possibilities, but a few apocalyptic scenarios have taken hold of the public...