As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health ...

Orange County school board votes 6-2 to keep controversial children's book "Do Animals Fall In Love?" with animal mating ...

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

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental ...

For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are ...

A children’s book that includes illustrations of animals mating will remain on the shelves of several Orange County middle school libraries after a divided school board vote, despite objections from ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Animals such as penguins and frigatebirds have evolved extreme sleep strategies — naps that last a few seconds, ...

If an animal grows slowly, reproduces late, avoids predators, and lives in a stable environment, aging politely takes a back seat. That pattern is clear in a range of well-known long-lived animals, ...

Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their potential hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—Today, the National Center for Advancing Translational Science (NCATS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced the winners of the NCATS Translational Science Education ...