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Only adult cave bear bones have been found until now.

Pangaea, 252 million years ago—The world is over. Siberia has been erupting for 300,000 years, is still erupting and won’t stop. Not a volcano, mind you, but Siberia—two million square miles of it. A suppurating, billowing, continent-scaled wasteland of glowing rock and steam. The seas, once resplendent with horn corals […]

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Science’s COVID-19 reporting is supported by the Pulitzer Center and the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Sea levels could rise more than two feet if just this one glacier collapses.

Analysis of data from over one million people suggests those who’ve experienced post-traumatic stress disorder are up to twice as likely to develop dementia.

A major report card on the state of biodiversity gives failing grades to the world’s nations. The United Nations’s Global Biodiversity Outlook 5, released this week, concludes that the world has not met ambitious targets set 10 years ago to protect nature. “The warning lights are flashing. We have to […]

For 20 years scientists and engineers have been saying that “someday” they’ll build a full-fledged quantum computer able to perform useful calculations that would overwhelm any conventional supercomputer. But current machines contain just a few dozen quantum bits, or qubits, too few to do anything dazzling. Today, IBM made its […]

The storm is expected to make landfall tonight or Wednesday morning.