The idea that extreme climate change could one day cause a mass extinction and end the human dominance is not as farfetched ...

Have you ever stopped to wonder how forecasters can predict the weather days in advance, or how scientists figure out how the ...

They call it a “world model”, an essential tool to help AI systems make sense of the complex, unpredictable physical spaces ...

They call it a “world model”, an essential tool to help AI systems make sense of the complex, unpredictable physical spaces into which many will eventually be put to work. The company argues that a ...

Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

The planet won’t look like this forever. A future supercontinent could unleash brutal cold, rising heat, and even a wave of ...

Geoscientists say Earth will be home to one massive supercontinent about 200 million years from now; there are four prominent versions of this mega-continent. The climate might be surprisingly balmy ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single landmass known as Pangaea. It formed slowly, through collisions that took place ...

Millions of years ago, the Earth looked very different. A huge landmass, called Pangea, covered about a third of our planet. But about 175 million years ago, the Earth broke apart into continents, and ...

The moment you finish setting up your first 3D printer, it may feel as though the entire world is at your fingertips. After all, you can craft all sorts of things, from handy tools to beautiful ...

A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell as much as 0.7%, reflecting lingering uncertainty, and capping off a volatile week which saw stocks enjoy ...