The curious minds at What If explore Earth during the Permian period, imagining life, climate, and the largest extinction ...

The curious minds at What If imagine Earth under the glow of two suns, exploring how life, climate, and the rhythms of day and night would be transformed by double the light and heat.

Satellite data reveals Earth's seasons are becoming fragmented and unpredictable, with neighboring regions falling out of ...

A rapid climate collapse during the Late Ordovician Mass Extinction devastated ocean life and reshuffled Earth’s ecosystems. In the aftermath, jawed vertebrates gained an unexpected edge by surviving ...

What is the Doomsday Clock? Scientists reset 2026 world clock time closest to midnight and global catastrophe, than ever ...

At some point in the deep past, humans may have come frighteningly close to disappearing altogether. Here’s what we know, ...

The clock is a symbolic way to show the public how close scientists believe the world is to a human-made apocalypse.

One of Earth’s earliest mass extinctions wiped out most ocean life during a sudden global ice age. From the ruins, jawed vertebrates survived, diversified, and transformed the course of evolution.

There are some areas where Canada has real leverage. It has rare-earth minerals that the U.S. covets. Cars produced in ...

What does it take to turn the most maligned material on Earth into something people actually want to wear? For James Merrill, ...