Virtual reality and augmented reality once felt like promises that were always a few years away. Yet right now, in early 2026 ...

With the Valve Index, Valve aimed to set the standard for PC VR in 2019. Six years later, its journey ends, marking the ...

When Mark Zuckerberg rebranded Facebook to Meta (META) in October 2021, the founder and CEO presented the name change as the next step in the company's evolution as he sought to bring the metaverse to ...

A composite view of the Earth constructed by NASA from multiple satellite images Editor at Large Human evolution is a story writ slow. It’s been about 3.8 billion years since life on Earth emerged and ...

A new suggestion that complexity increases over time, not just in living organisms but in the nonliving world, promises to rewrite notions of time and evolution. In 1950 the Italian physicist Enrico ...

For decades, scientists assumed that life on Earth emerged through a chain of highly improbable flukes. But a new theory suggests it may have instead arrived just in time. When you purchase through ...