It's the kind of news that makes you wonder why you should even bother getting out of bed. What's the point? After all, the Universe will eventually dissolve away to nothing in about 100 trillion years, according to this entertainingly morbid piece of ultimate doom speculation :

Over the course of the next few billion years, evolution will seem to go reverse. The largest organisms and least heat tolerant animals will die out, leaving hardy insects and bacteria. Finally, it'll be so hot on the surface of the Earth that the oceans will boil away. There'll be no place to hide from the terrible temperatures. Only the organisms that live deep underground will survive, as they have already for billions of years.

And the end. The End of all ends ending endingly :

When the last black hole evaporates, all that will remain in the Universe are photons of radiation, and elementary particles that escaped capture by black holes. The temperature of the entire Universe will reach a final temperature just above absolute zero.

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Perhaps...this bleak future of a cold, dead Universe is all that awaits us.

Only 100 trillion years to go, make the most of it.

This piece also contains the standard prediction that humans have got about 10,000 years left before we manage to do ourselves in as a species, or that vengeful bitch Mother Nature decides to smite us verily, permanently.

Rubbish. Humans aren't going anywhere. We'll continue to rule this rock. Above ground or under ground. We'll grow new bodies, store our brains online, learn to feed ourselves from sunlight and populate the solar system. We're smarter than cockroaches and more vicious than a starving crocodile gobbling down its own offspring. This planet has never seen anything like us.