Traders on the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 23, 1999. The recent stock-market downturn has sparked comparisons with the dot-com bubble. (Henny Ray Abrams/AFP/Getty Images) The selloff in global ...

Bill Maher grilled fellow liberal comedian Patton Oswalt on a podcast episode published Monday, arguing he lives in a bubble and is unaware of where progressive policies have gone too far. During the ...

Extinction rates appear to have slowed since their peak in the early 1900s, suggesting not a reprieve for nature but a shift in how and where losses occur. Much of the damage was concentrated on ...

It’s been an uncomfortable few days for AI vendors. On Friday, the big tech companies saw $1.2 trillion wiped off their market valuations, reflecting the concerns of many analysts that AI valuations ...

The “extinction burst” theory is spreading on left-wing TikTok as an explanation for the increase in violent rhetoric and acts from the right. In psychology, this term describes the temporary rise in ...

Prominent research studies have suggested that our planet is currently experiencing another mass extinction, based on extrapolating extinctions from the past 500 years into the future and the idea ...

The saying goes that if people are talking about a bubble, we’re probably already in one. Right now, people are shouting about an AI bubble – so should we be braced for a crash? Then there is the ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

Until recently, I assumed that the term “extinction burst” referred to the impact of the comet, asteroid or other catastrophic space rock that wiped out the dinosaurs. Turns out the expression ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Could we be on the verge of the sixth mass extinction? To better understand what’s to come for life on Earth–and the current harm we’re doing to our own environment–we have to look into the past. But, ...

Humans have wiped out hundreds of species — with many more on the brink or experiencing large declines in population. Some scientists have argued that we have entered a “sixth mass extinction” event ...