That’s the premise of a paper published earlier this month in Trends in Ecology & Evolution. The research began as an effort ...

Then along came a revolutionary invention, the through-gut, giving digested food a back exit and changing the face of our ...

(Kimmig & Bicknell, Trends Ecol. Evol., 2026) We may owe our very existence to an ancient poop explosion. If the earliest ...

Known as the Cambrian Explosion, this flurry of rapid evolution produced most of the animal phyla and ecosystems we see around us today. And it may have taken off because some of those early animals ...

But now, a review study published today in Trends in Ecology & Evolution hypothesizes that the ecosystem overhaul was also fueled by an explosion of poop.  In a modern ocean, animal excrement is a key ...

Extant and ancient cephalopods—including octopuses, squids, extinct ammonites, cuttlefish and nautiluses—have all had to solve the problem of buoyancy, whether they have hard external shells or not.

That was the day OpenAI announced a new sort of bot, known as a “reasoning model,” that was trained to complete challenging tasks that took long periods of time—the very sorts of science, math, and ...

The Cambrian is a geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, spanning approximately 539–485 million years ago, characterized by a major diversification of multicellular life known as the Cambrian explosion ...

Ramapo police responded to a reported explosion and structure fire in Sloatsburg Wednesday, July 22, near the Orange-Rockland County border, officials said. The incident resulted in the closure of ...

(NSF/NSO/AURA/MPS) This Week in Science: Staring at the Sun, unraveling the 'farm effect', and much more! First up: You're ...

The Ozaukee County Sheriff's Office has released the names of the two men seriously injured in a building explosion in the Town of Cedarburg July 25. The father and son, who are in critical but stable ...

One person was arrested after setting off an incendiary device outside a federal building in Manhattan, FBI Director Kash Patel said. The New York City Fire Department responded to a report of an ...