Nearly 60,000 years ago, as prehistoric humans just started venturing out of Africa, a forest of cypress trees grew on the banks of a river near the Gulf of Mexico. As the trees grew old, they fell and were buried under sediment. When the sea level rose, the remains of the forest were covered once again.

In the movies, underdog sports teams always come from gritty, struggling, preferably postindustrial places. Major League wouldn’t work if it were set in Miami, instead of Cleveland. Rocky’s determination in Rocky is melded to Philadelphia: He draws his strength from the city itself, pumping his fists and jumping into the air after ascending the steps of the city’s art museum. Underdog sports teams are avatars for their downtrodden communities.

On Monday, General Electric factory workers launched two separate protests demanding that the company convert its jet engine factories to make ventilators. At GE's Lynn, Massachusetts aviation facility, workers held a silent protest, standing six feet apart. Union members at the company’s Boston headquarters also marched six feet apart, calling on the company to use its factories to help the country close its ventilator shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Like humans, it had a butt, a head and two symmetrical sides. It's practically family.

It’s a question of when, not if

Simple design aims to let even overwhelmed physicians and hospitals participate

Mitt Romney has joined the chorus of voices calling for all Americans to receive free money directly from the government.

Watch the first trailer for Netflix's The Midnight Gospel, a new adult animated series from Duncan Trussell and Pendleton Ward, the creator of Adventure Time, releasing worldwide on April 20.

Y Combinator said that it may make its Summer 2020 accelerator program entirely virtual, proving that even the world’s premiere accelerator isn’t immune to having its business reshaped by the novel coronavirus spreading across the world.

A molecular biologist explains how the kits function, and why the U.S. has faced problems

Despite the previously unreported sale late last year, NBCU says it's committed to the Snap relationship and is producing more programming than ever for the platform.

The concert promoter books venues like the St. Joe's Amp in Syracuse.

Can the 30,000-acre Parque Ecológico Lago de Texcoco in Mexico City restore the water systems of the region and serve as a model for others around the world?

Ms. Grégoire Trudeau began exhibiting mild flu-like symptoms including a low fever on Wednesday and she is self-isolating at home awaiting test results

The blazar—powered by an extremely bright black hole that can blast a hole through galaxies—is the most ancient ever discovered, sending radio signals from the early universe

By Emily Reynolds. The more participants thought Facebook users were eating fruit and veg, the more they ate themselves.

It may have been sweetened, heated, filtered, and turned into a fraud—and the entire agricultural system is at risk as a result.

Many religious people don’t like atheists, and in fact would apparently rate them alongside rapists on levels of trust, suggests a new Canadian study that claims to be one of the first psychological probes into anti-atheist prejudice. Researchers at the University of British Columbia and the University of Oregon conducted a series of studies that found a deep level of distrust toward those who don’t believe in God...

Leather is typically viewed as a “premium” material where we usually see it used in high-end fashion like wallets and handbags. It has also been used to make accessories for phones, cars, and so on. However, while it does have a nice feel to it, the dark side to leather is that it typically involves the killing and skinning of animals.

No american company makes as much money in China as Apple. While few make that much money at all, Apple raked in $44bn of revenues in Greater China during the 2019 financial year, mostly from selling iPhones. That is more than the global sales of United Airlines and Nike and about as much as Tencent, a domestic tech giant. Few countries have as much power as China to shape Apple’s fortunes.