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Over the past 540 million years Earth has suffered five mass extinction events, the worst of which wiped out more than 9 per cent of marine life on the planet. A new study has suggested that the next such catastrophe might not be too far away. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) geophysicist and mathematician, Daniel […]
Enlarge (credit: Ecco) The Ends of the World, Peter Brannen’s masterful non-fiction debut, might be just the book to give to that uncle of yours who still wants to argue about climate change (or even, to your US Representative). But first, read it yourself. It’s a page turner. The book’s premise is mind-bendingly vast: a […]
(credit: Don Davis/NASA) There are a few hellish episodes in Earth’s unfathomably long history that make even Hollywood’s most bombastic disaster movie look like a sunny picnic. The end-Cretaceous extinction is the most well-known, since it wiped out the dinosaurs (minus the birds, of course) and opened the door for the mammalian revolution—which most human […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty | BSIP) Men’s spunk may be getting noticeably less spunky in some high-income countries, according to a meta-analysis of international swimmers. Skimming and re-examining sperm data from 185 past independent studies, researchers estimated that sperm counts of men from select high-income regions—North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe—dropped about 52 percent between […]
Disney recently released its latest Lego Star Wars recap with Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, retelling the two-hour film in about two minutes. Guess that didn’t leave a lot of room for the ending— where, you know… … everybody dies. “Hooray, we’re all about to be blown up!” The video was released to celebrate […]
If The Last Man on Earth‘s approaching season finale turns out to be a series finale, the show’s fans are going to be left with a not-so-satisfied feeling, predicts Will Forte. Discussing the Fox comedy’s uncertain future with TVLine, Forte — who is both Last Man‘s creator and star — says “the finale of Season 3 would be […]
Image: Wikimedia If the fact that the Earth is careening toward a sixth mass extinction event makes you uncomfortable, good news: it turns out, the biosphere may have rebounded “quickly” after the worst mass extinction in history. That, at least, is the implication of one remarkable fossil assemblage formed less than 2 million years after […]
