A black swan event is rare but disruptive — and might be predictable.
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Dating of volcanic ash suggests the remains are at least 230,000 years old.
Pokémon has people wandering the world to enslave wild and magical creatures so they can fight in painful blood sports. What’s fun about that?
It walked enough miles to nearly circle the Earth twice.
Despite billions of years of life on Earth, humans first arose only ~300,000 years ago. It took all that time to make our arrival possible.
The British economic anthropologist Jason Hickel proposes “degrowth” in the face of recession.
Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.
A genetic study of British Columbia grizzly bears finds a weird link to local human languages.
There’s a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
With around 5,000 summertime residents, increased tourism, and a warming planet, it is becoming difficult to protect Antarctica from invasion.
When the Universe was first born, the ingredients necessary for life were nowhere to be found. Only our “lucky stars” enabled our existence.
The National Ignition Facility just repeated, and improved upon, their earlier demonstration of nuclear fusion. Now, the true race begins.
Often called modern-day dinosaurs, cassowaries are one of only a few birds known to have killed humans.
A new brain imaging study explored how different levels of the brain’s excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmitters are linked to math abilities.
Participation in community science programs has skyrocketed during COVID-19 lockdowns.
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
Capacitors, acid batteries, and other methods of storing electric charges all lose energy over time. These gravity-fed batteries won’t.
A volley of new insights reignites the debate over whether our choices are ever truly our own.
65 million years ago, a massive asteroid struck Earth. Not only did Jupiter not stop it, but it probably caused the impact itself.
Fossilized footprints found at an excavation site in southwest New Mexico prove humans colonized the continent much earlier than previously thought.
Life finds a way — in this case, by smelling like death.
The lush biodiversity of South America’s rainforests is rooted in one of the most cataclysmic events that ever struck Earth.
A study from Carnegie Mellon University tracks the travels of tarantulas since the Cretaceous period.
Biologists use commonly-found insects that engage in cannibalism to prove a key evolutionary concept.
Our ancestral cousins far more intelligent than we credit them for, and they did things most of us cannot.
Historians know how military technologies evolved, but the reasons why remain poorly understood.
Across the world, wildlife is under severe threat.
Driven by a childhood marked by war and environmental devastation, Dyhia Belhabib developed an innovative technology to combat illegal fishing.