This coral usually looks like a common white veggie: the humble cauliflower. The aptly named cauliflower soft coral is made of “countless small, rounded, bump-like polyps that give it a puffy texture, ...

Across almost every country on Earth, women can expect to live several years longer than men, a gap that has stubbornly ...

The human chin is one of evolution’s strangest quirks. Unlike other primates, we alone have a protruding bony point beneath ...

While every love story feels unique, romance follows a surprisingly universal pattern. First comes attraction—that initial spark of interest. Then courtship—the dating phase where two people connect ...

The work, recently published in Nature Communications, addresses a long-standing puzzle in breast cancer biology. Scientists have known that while aging increases breast cancer risk, having a ...

The American Society of Animal Science Midwest Section is honoring Amy Desaulniers, an associate professor in the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, for instructional excellence by ...

New study reveals our closest relatives share the cognitive roots of imagination and pretense. Remember childhood tea parties ...

Given that bonobos are endangered in their home of the Democratic Republic of Congo, he added, “My hope is that that kind of ...

Another experiment aboard the ISS examined whether key sperm maturation steps required for fertilization could proceed in ...

Orcas are born with powerful bodies and sharp teeth, but they are not born knowing how to hunt. Here’s why they depend so ...

In his book “The Intimate Animal,” sex and relationships researcher Justin Garcia says people have miscalculated their need ...

While most animals manage to avoid inbreeding through scent recognition or by leaving their packs, others (such as those ...