And the benefit for women might be even greater.

Take a leisurely look around the animal kingdom, and you will find some indisputable instances of play. There are plenty of viral videos that show baby elephants and bears rolling around in the mud ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

A massive 30-year study of more than 110,000 adults explores how different activities—from walking and running to strength ...

Researchers at the University of Hamburg, the University of Toulouse, and the DESY and ESRF research institutes have observed for the first time in real time how iron-sulfur nanostructures form in ...

Researchers analyzed bacterial genomes and discovered that mobile genetic elements exchange DNA to communicate. This ...

The fact that primates other than humans engage in homosexual behavior is well-documented. A recent study in Nature Ecology & ...

Euan Ashley's lab explores the intricate interactions of gene variants. Tiny "typos," or genetic mutations, can sneak into segments of DNA. Many of these are harmless, but some can cause health ...

Participants described their immediate reactions in one of four ways: outward inaction, seeking some form of recourse, ...

Sea-level rise has accelerated across Africa in recent decades, thanks to global warming and, in particular, to the melting ...

After 22 wonderful years, I’ve decided to take the exciting and terrifying step of leaving in order to try to build something ...