After 10 years of work, landmark study reveals new ‘tree of life’ for all birds living today
The largest-ever study of bird genomes has produced a remarkably clear picture of the bird…
AI may develop a huge carbon footprint, but it could also be a critical ally in the fight against climate change
Recently, artificial intelligence (AI) has been cast as a problem in the urgent, international effort…
During the 2024 eclipse, biologists like us want to find out how birds will respond to darkness in the middle of the day
The total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024, coincides with an exciting time for wild…
Africa now emits as much carbon as it stores: landmark new study
A landmark new study has found that, in the last decade, the African continent has…
An anonymous coder nearly hacked a big chunk of the internet. How worried should we be?
Outside the world of open-source software, it’s likely few people would have heard about XZ…
Even hands-free, phones and their apps cause dangerously distracted driving
Do you ever use your cellphone while driving? Don’t feel too guilty about saying yes…
6 facts about Americans and TikTok
(Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images) Increasing shares of U.S. adults are turning to the short-form video…
Growing quickly helped the earliest dinosaurs and other ancient reptiles flourish in the aftermath of mass extinction
It may be hard to imagine, but once upon a time, dinosaurs didn’t dominate their…
Australian ‘bush glass’ bears the fingerprints of a cosmic collision with an iron meteorite
How Earth and the other planets of the solar system formed and evolved over the…
An earthquake scientist on what we know so far and what may happen next
Earlier today, a major earthquake of magnitude 7.4 struck the central east coast of Taiwan,…