City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals ...

Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP) has drastically increased the understanding of Hawaiian monk seal (Neomonachus ...

University of Iowa biologists discovered that a New Zealand freshwater snail duplicated its entire genome, capturing a rare ...

The world’s first baby conceived through an AI-assisted IVF process marks a historic leap in fertility science. Using robotic ...

If your parents' bone repair genes never turn on, you still inherit them, and you heal. But if they don't teach you to ski, ...

A decade-long review by George Mason University researchers reveals growing evidence that neonicotinoid insecticides—the ...

Scientific theory predicts that having more offspring leads to a shorter life span, including in humans. However, despite some hundred years of research, there is no unequivocal evidence for this link ...

Euan Young and colleagues show that under harsh conditions, the biological cost of reproduction can shorten women’s lifespans ...

Chronic stress is on the rise—the result of an evolutionary mismatch that our bodies and brains, adapted over hundreds of thousands of years to hunter-gatherer conditions, are experiencing in ...

In a world where toothpaste is formulated for the higher pH of men’s saliva, popular period products cause bodily harm, ...

A global study of over 1,100 species reveals an evolutionary reason why females consistently live longer than males.

Two small changes in human DNA may have played a big role in helping our ancestors walk upright, researchers say. The study, recently published in the journal Nature, found that these tweaks changed ...