Stephen Hawking, the celebrated theoretical physicist, was known not only for his work on black holes and cosmology but also for his cautionary views on emerging technologies. Before his death in 2018 ...

"People believe all sorts of things about how the world's going to end," said Matthew Billet, social psychologist at University of California, Irvine, US, in conversation with Science unscripted hosts ...

Perhaps the most dire prediction right-wingers made in the first 15 years of this century was that legalizing marriage between two people of the same sex would end civilization. No less than the pope ...