California's legal cannabis industry could be in for a brutal 2025, with a major tax increase looming on the horizon.

The impending cannabis excise tax increase is thanks to a 2022 deal brokered between Democrats in the legislature and Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration. The agreement dropped a widely loathed ...

Mass extinction events are infamous, entirely destroying many species in one fell swoop. But this particular extinction event ...

Apparently, a recent mass extinction event in South America never actually happened. For four decades, it was believed that a ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

A newly discovered fossil in Antarctica, estimated to be 68 million years old, reveals the oldest known modern bird, Vegavis ...

Discover the remarkable bird fossil from Antarctica that is rewriting the story of bird evolution. Learn how this 69-million-year-old bird challenges previous theories.

The discovery of a 69-million-year-old bird fossil is reshaping our understanding of avian evolution.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

This summer, the ‘Jurassic World’ franchise is set to bring back thrilling action and prehistoric terror with the release of ...

Not only must every Princeton student think about what sort of life they can — or should — build in the context of an ever-warming world, but also that the climate activists on campus who intend to ...

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...