Nicotinic receptor signaling is influential in modulating appropriate responses to salient stimuli within a complex environment. The cholinergic neurotransmitter system drives attention to salient ...

To find answers, a team of researchers studied North America’s fossil record, focusing on the 18 million years before the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous period. The new analysis ...

The start-up Colossal Biosciences aims to use gene-editing technology to bring back the woolly mammoth and other extinct species. Recently, the company achieved major milestones: last year, they ...

Our planet now faces a global extinction crisis never witnessed by humankind. Scientists predict that more than 1 million species are on track for extinction in the coming decades. But there’s still ...

The first specimens were found in the 19th century and the 'new' wolves were cloned from DNA found in fossils. De-extinction, also known as resurrection biology, seeks to resurrect extinct species ...

Deaths of nearby massive stars may have played a significant role in triggering at least two mass extinction events in Earth's history, according to new research. The explosive supernova deaths of ...

“This massive milestone is the first of many coming examples demonstrating that our end-to-end de-extinction technology stack works,” said Ben Lamm, Colossal’s cofounder and CEO, in a news ...

“And that’s how it all started.” This choice helped spark a decades-long movement to revive a language at the edge of extinction. For the Sámi, language is more than communication—it’s ...