One of the most important, yet challenging, skills to nail down as a wilderness survivalist is tree identification. Beyond ...

There is a new, popular type of wood taking homes by storm. Learn why European white oak has an increasing number of fans and ...

The new funnel-web species has earned the nickname "Big Boy" Big Boy would be classified as a separate species The nocturnal black arachnids are usually spotted within around 150 km of Sydney ...

ORC is a self-describing type-aware columnar file format designed for Hadoop workloads. It is optimized for large streaming reads, but with integrated support for finding required rows quickly.

The idea of life continuing on Earth without humans has a way of catching our attention. Our species has spread across land and sea, altering the planet in countless ways. Still, Earth’s history shows ...

A new human species, Homo juluensis, has been proposed based on fossils from eastern Asia, dating back 300,000 to 50,000 years ago, possibly including the Denisovans. This research uses a novel method ...

In fact, Drosophila melanogaster has been one of the most important species for science for more than a century. Were it not for these flies, some of the most significant scientific discoveries ...

A harrowing 2024 study published in the journal Science reveals a grim reality: that the ongoing climate crisis has put Earth on track to lose about 160,000 species, with a worst-case scenario loss of ...