Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

A research team led by Dr. Chris Baumann and Dr. Dorothée Drucker from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and ...

As the global avian extinction crisis accelerates, the loss of large-bodied birds is destroying local biodiversity and ...

Unlearning fear responses is a fundamental learning process in the brain. It allows us to flexibly react to formerly ...

Picture a star-shaped cell in the brain, stretching its spindly arms out to cradle the neurons around it. That's an astrocyte ...

A Sierra Nevada red fox captured and collared for the first time in the southern Sierra may prove to be the key to saving the ...

Artificial intelligence researchers are now publicly divided over how dangerous their own systems might become, even as some senior staff quietly leave the biggest labs building those tools. Two ...

1. As environments become more complex and interconnected, modularity becomes essential. Living systems reduce risk by ...

Almost a hundred new animal species that survived a mass extinction event half a billion years ago have been discovered in a small quarry in China, scientists revealed Wednesday. The treasure trove of ...

The "extinction burst" theory is spreading on left-wing TikTok as an explanation for the increase in violent rhetoric and acts from the right. In psychology, this term describes the temporary rise in ...