From Becky Chambers to Audrey Niffenegger, there are some heavy hitters with new sci-fi novels out this month – and a hefty ...

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An exquisitely preserved fossil found in China shows that many anatomical features seen in birds also evolved independently ...

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In the Pacific Northwest, from Oregon and Washington and into Canada, El Niño is expected to bring drier-than-normal weather, ...

Extreme weather could damage harvests worldwide, but the answer is more local food production, not stockpiling, Katie White ...

The phrase “survival of the fittest” is so closely associated with Darwinism that many people assume Charles Darwin himself wrote it. He didn’t – it was foisted on him by a contemporary, Herbert ...

When scientists were asked to review papers for a conference without using AI tools, many of them ignored the request and ...

Physicists have long struggled with their goal of making gravity a quantum force. A radical post-quantum approach might solve ...

Though the El Niño is still months from its peak, it is already breaking many records. Two main factors are behind how it ...