A mass mating event in the lab reveals how yeast cells choose partners - and what predicts the success of their offspring.

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds ...

Why is it that a squirrel may calmly take food from a picnic table while a deer runs as if its life depends on it at the snap ...

Spring training might be over, but your sperm is just getting warmed up. While preparing for conception has historically been considered a woman’s burden, evolving research shows that infertility is ...

The lifespan of lobsters has long puzzled scientists.

Are we evolving to be more stupid? Humans have a relatively high genetic mutation rate, which has been thought to be driving down our physical and mental fitness – but columnist Michael Le Page finds ...

There is a limit on how many times a mammal can be cloned before suffering "mutational meltdown", Japanese scientists have discovered, after making 1,200 clones over two decades that started off with ...

Onions have been grown and bred for thousands of years, leading to the great diversity of plants available today, from sweet to pungent flavors, bulbing to bunching types, and regional varieties with ...

The droppings contain DNA, he thought, and perhaps, even after rain washes them away, some DNA might remain. And if it does ...

The study, titled “Artificial Truth: Algorithmic Power, Epistemic Authority, and the Crisis of Democratic Knowledge,” ...

From funky smells to crafty colors, orchids have some weird ways of attracting pollinators ...

From ancient Rome to the era of A.I., people have prized originality, but the line where influence ends and cribbing begins ...