It all started with a big bang has been the commonly accepted origin story of our universe for decades. But what if it’s wrong? What if, before starting 13 billion years ago as a tiny ball of ...

including its origin and evolution (and also human cultural evolution), against the background of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory. Among the central themes is the seeming ...

In the chemistry laboratory, instructors often juggle multiple responsibilities: crafting engaging experiments, training TAs, ensuring safety compliance, and tailoring course content for students with ...

Explore 85 million years of evolution from the emergence of the first primates to the development of modern humans, all ...

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

Misconceptions about human evolution have circulated since the 1920s. At Stony Brook University, researchers in the ...

Researchers have demonstrated that intensified environmental variability (EV) can promote the evolution of cooperation through simulation based on evolutionary game theory. This result offers a new ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most ...

The new research could upend what’s known of the evolution of the most primitive mammals alive today. Found in Australia and New Guinea, the platypus and echidna are called monotremes ...

a. Introduces schema versioning to enable metadata-only modifications in seconds (e.g., adding trailing columns, extending fields). Historical data automatically fills default values, ensuring ...