New plankton arrived just a few millennia — maybe even decades — after the Chicxulub asteroid, forcing a rethink of evolution's catastrophe response speed.

AI’s rise feels faster and deeper than past tech shifts—reshaping not just what we build, but how we build, learn, and evolve ...

Proposed BIP-360 introduces P2MR to protect Bitcoin from quantum attacks, securing long-term value by removing public key exposure.

The Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history.

Apple's 50th birthday is coming up on April 1, and to celebrate, the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, is holding in-person exhibits and promoting online content about the ...

Lattice Surgery on Quantum Bits Benefits. There are many benefits that this study brings to the market. For one, it opens the ...

The molecular clock theory posits that genetic changes happen steadily and gradually, offering a reliable means for peering into the past and theorizing when complex life first emerged. However, there ...

Human evolution is not a straight line but a complex branching tree shared with other great apes. This overview explains the distinction between hominids and hominins and traces the evolutionary ...

One of the most important steps in the evolution of modern mammals was the development of highly sensitive hearing. The middle ear of mammals, with an eardrum and several small bones, allows us to ...

Yunxian 1 (left) and Yunxian 2 (right) are skulls unearthed in China that had been badly crushed. Scientists digitally reconstructed Yunxian 2 (center) and analyzed its relationship to other early ...

A million-year-old human skull discovered in China may push back the origin of modern humans by at least half a million years, according to a new study published in Science. The fossil, known as ...