In two new studies, researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, have shed ...

The Ethics of Genetic Intervention Rethinking extinction inevitably raises profound ethical questions. If we have the power to reverse extinctions, do we have the responsibility to do so? Which ...

Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis 24/7, reports on new research from The Guardian showing that over 500 bird species could go extinct within the next century due to the climate ...

The Jurassic Games: Extinction takes an adventurous bite out of reality-television culture, but does so with choppy storytelling and not-quite-polished visuals.

The speed of these waves depends on the medium’s properties, such as its density and viscosity. It can, therefore, be used as a probe of the medium. The team were able to show that the speed of sound ...

Climate change and habitat loss could cause more than 500 bird species to go extinct in the next 100 years, researchers from the University of Reading have found.

The goal of the new grant-making program, Exponentiating Mathematics, is to speed up the pace of progress in pure (as opposed to applied) math — and, in doing so, to turn A.I. into a superlative ...

Mukhopadhyay’s research suggests that a shift in the Earth’s magnetic poles around 41,000 years ago, known as the Laschamp event, may have contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals. Agnit ...

Humans have driven sharks and their cousins to the brink of extinction. The health of the entire ocean is at stake.

Wood ducks were hunted to such an extent that they were close to extinction when the North American Bird Banding Program started. Today, there are an estimated 4 million of them, and the ...

Over 500 Bird Species At Risk In Next Century As We Face "Unprecedented" Extinction Crisis "We face a bird extinction crisis unprecedented in modern times." ...