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Skeleton of the early dinosaur Coelophysis bauri from the Late Triassic. The protracted restructuring of Early Jurassic terrestrial ecosystems coincided with the diversification of dinosaurs. Credit: Courtesy of Natural History Museum of Los Angeles CountyA research team from USC Dornsife has made significant discoveries regarding the drastic changes caused by a surge in greenhouse gases and escalating temperatures, which resulted in a mass extinction event, paving the way for the emergence of Jurassic dinosaurs.Startling…

If you felt a bit shattered by Adrianne Lenker‘s “Ruined,” you might not want to click play on her new single below. “Sadness As a Gift” is off her upcoming album Bright Future, out March 22 via 4AD. The track is raw and intimate, featuring Lenker’s voice alongside a cozy violin. “Leaning on the windowsill/You could write me someday and I bet you will,” she sings. “We could see the sadness as a gift and still.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmycsQ30obg Bright Future, produced by Lenker’s frequent…

Actor Jeremy Renner, who suffered blunt chest trauma and orthopedic injuries after he was crushed by a snowplow in January 2023, is now back in action. He is fully recovered and all set to return to work. On Thursday, Renner reshared a post from `Mayor Of Kingstown` co-star Emma Laird on his Instagram story, indicating that the pair would be reunited right after the new year for the season 3, Deadline reported. The post featured a photo of Laird and Renner, seemingly on set, with the text that read, "It`s happening" and…

Hackers who stole information from Marvel's Spider-Man 2 developer Insomniac Games have released much of that data into the wild, reportedly after Sony refused to pay a ransom for the return of those files. The group--Rhysida --demanded a payment of 50 BitCoin (around $2 million) within seven days, and after the deadline passed, the hackers followed up on their threat by releasing 1.67 terabytes of information related to upcoming Insomniac projects.According to Cyber Daily, 98% of the stolen data has been…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain (Names have been changed to protect identities.) Australian school students feel immense pressure to go to university, often at the exclusion of all other pathways, which can lead to devastating mental health effects. That's among the headline findings of our decade-long program of research on the aspirations and…

Polymath Christine Ladd-Franklin is best known for her theory of the evolution of color vision, but her research spanned mathematics, symbolic logic, philosophy, biology and psychology.Born in Connecticut in 1847, she was clever and sharp-tongued, and she never shied away from a battle of wits. When she decided to go to college instead of pursuing a marriage, she convinced her skeptical grandmother by pointing to statistics: there was an excess of women in New England, so a husband would be hard to find; she’d better get…

An exploding population of hard-to-eradicate "super pigs" in Canada is threatening to spill south of the border, and northern states like Minnesota, North Dakota and Montana are taking steps to stop the invasion.In Canada, the wild pigs roaming Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba pose a new threat.Ryan Brook, a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and one of Canada's leading authorities on the problem, calls feral swine, "the most invasive animal on the planet" and "an ecological train wreck." They are often…

This story is part of CBC Health's Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven't subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here.The impacts of climate change hit Canada hard in recent years, from the deadly heat dome of 2021 to the country's worst-ever wildfire season last summer. And those devastating environmental disasters provoked a lot of anxiety among pregnant individuals."Pregnancy, even without heat and smoke, is a time when…

Credit: Julia Volk from Pexels New research reveals millions of people around the world living in poverty have been experiencing a "climate hazard flip" since the turn of the century. This comes at a pivotal moment, as world leaders prepare to meet in Dubai for COP28. The research from WaterAid features stark satellite imagery and…

by Dorian M. Gaboriau, Jonathan Lesven, Victor Danneyrolles and Yves Bergeron, The Conversation Credit: Vladyslav Dukhin from Pexels After a summer of exceptional wildfires, the return of cooler temperatures and snowy conditions will provide Québec's forests a brief respite. But…