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See Bill Joy’s article in “Wired” magazine, April 2000, titled “Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us.” Joy talks about what he calls the 21st Century technologies of mass destruction (AI, nanotech, ...

Chiniquodon theotonicus — a carnivorous, dog-sized animal from the Triassic — left a message in its bone: a microscopically thin growth ring that only forms at birth, in live-bearing animals. The ...

Growth rings on a fossil bone suggest at least one mammal ancestor gave birth to live young rather than laying eggs 236 million years ago.

This letter is in response to Joseph Hardy’s op-ed of Aug. 2, in which he offers hope regarding climate change. The writer bases it on personal observations of vast arrays of wind farms in Wyoming and ...

Dinosaurs generally lorded it over mammals during the Mesozoic, but our tiny ancestors seem to have had them beat when it came to being small.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 245 million-year-old fossil from China reveals how early reptiles adapted to the sea, preserving both skeleton and digestive ...

Shakajlura riojanensis, a newly discovered Triassic apex predator, ruled the land millions of years before the rise of giant dinosaurs.

EONS: LIFE AND DEATH ON PANGEA marks an expansion of the EONS franchise, which has drawn more than 757 million video views and 3.17 million YouTube subscribers, into longform television, combining ...

The truth is that no matter how perfectly an AI bot generates a painting or a song or a text, it is artificial. Anyone who has made anything with their own hands or mind knows this. A human being can ...

Governments have always had to strike a balance between actions that are unpopular but thought to be necessary, and laws and policies that win them support from the public. In the UK, the new prime ...

There is a point of no return ahead: a point where we can’t simply turn the AIs off because they’d escape and turn us off instead.