Corinne Low, Helen Charman, Patrick Foulis, John Callanan and Beth Malory discuss productivity and reproduction; the labour market and the labour of having children What do we mean when we talk about ...

Termites did not evolve complex societies by adding new genetic features. Instead, scientists found that they became more ...

At first glance, the photo above may look like a grove of alien-esque trees as seen from below. But this picture wasn’t taken on some otherworldly planet—it’s actually an extreme close-up of the ...

Multicellularity is one of the most profound phenomena in biology, and relies on the ability of a single cell to reorganize ...

Researchers from The Universities of Manchester and Birmingham have identified the exact nerve cells in the brain that drive ...

These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.

Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

Quite an advantage in today’s world.

Bumble is one of the most well-known dating apps out there. Founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd started Bumble in 2014 after founding Tinder years prior. Bumble was, for many years, women's answer to ...

The latest viral fitness trend is literally buzzy. Vibration plates are all over TikTok, with devotees saying they help tone and strengthen muscles. Never heard of them? “A vibration plate, also known ...

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...