What are humanity’s fundamental motives, our most important goals? New work points to an interesting consensus among young ...

The White House is asking Congress to cut $5 billion from the National Institutes of Health and downsize the number of ...

Global health expert and advocate Nina R Schwalbe has spent her career working on multifaceted global health issues, ranging from HIV and tuberculosis prevention to negotiations for a pandemic treaty.

As humpback whale numbers climb back after decades of large-scale hunting, scientists are spotting strange things. A new ...

How do octopuses mate in the dark? A new study shows how the hectocotylus arm uses progesterone receptors to "taste" for a mate.

Scientists found that the male’s hectocotylus, the specialized arm for mating, is lined with receptors that can sense ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a "taste by touch" sensory ...

When the scientists paired two male octopuses in the same setup, the males interacted by touching arms, but they never ...

For two decades, a team of researchers cloned mice from successive generations of clones until the new clones were no longer ...

A new study by Harvard biologists reveals how octopuses feel their way to potential mates with a “taste by touch” sensory system and even can couple at arm’s length without actually seeing each other.

Floating in near-weightless conditions can be disorienting for even the most experienced astronauts. Male reproductive ...

Ducks with corkscrew penises, fish changing sex – what do we really know about sex and reproduction on Earth? Less than we ...