It’s a mite soon to start grieving, but scientists now project that life on Earth will probably end in about a billion years. A Monday in February, 1,000,002,025, would be my guess. On that ...

When the World Cup kicks off across the United States, Canada and Mexico, Africa will not be going to the global showpiece as a footnote. For the first time, the continent will have 10 representatives ...

A new book by the British cultural journalist Dorian Lynskey chronicles our centuries-old obsession with doomsday scenarios. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through ...

In the introduction of his new book, “Everything Must Go: The Stories We Tell About The End of The World,” Dorian Lynskey cites a 2020 poll in which nearly 60 percent of young Americans firmly ...