Earth responded to its most severe past warming event by evolving a new and bizarre type of photosynthesis that allowed a ...

Mass extinction events are defined by a 75% loss in total species. These events can take tens of thousands to several million years. Experts are alarmed at today’s “unprecedented” population abundance ...

In school, we learned about the asteroid that wiped out an estimated 76% of all creatures. Scientists now call this the fifth mass extinction. You’re reading that correctly: throughout Earth’s history ...

Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, ...

For this Sunday's focus, I want to drill down on the illogical narrative that AI is going to displace security software. The cybersecurity sector got devalued because Anthropic and then OpenAI ...

More than 500 million years before humans walked the Earth, a catastrophic extinction event wiped out vast numbers of early animal species. Now, fossils pulled from a single quarry in southern China ...

Researchers studying the soft bodied Ediacaran biotas of the world generally accept that there are three distinct assemblages: The 575–560-million-year-old (Ma) Avalon Assemblage—best known from the ...

Critics say the crypto bear market has sounded Web3's death knell. There's no doubt the casualties are mounting. Once-hyped projects are shuttering. Ecosystems that commanded billion-dollar valuations ...

No, I’m not talking about the early birds that get the worms, I’m talking about the earliest ancestors of birds. You may know them as dinosaurs. The Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) extinction event, ...

Artificial intelligence won’t destroy the software business. But the persistent belief that it will can still do a lot of damage. And that has already been done. Software stocks have been on a ...

"I want it to be thought-provoking," says director Susanne Brandstaetter, about the IFFR-debuting film. "I want people to be emotionally touched and think about what they're hearing and seeing." By ...

When considering mass extinctions, people often think of the asteroid strike that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. But life on Earth has experienced many extinction events. Now, a trove of fossils ...