A wild widow spider behavior involving a backflip into death during sex has a simple genetic explanation, new research finds.

There are people around us who can maintain their weight despite what they eat. This has led scientists to believe that a person's metabolism and tendency toward obesity may have genetic factors ...

An archer steps up to the line, pulls back the bowstring and releases an arrow that hits a bullseye two hundred yards away ...

Inside an ant colony, queens reproduce while workers care for young and maintain a society built around shared labor. For ...

The prior three articles in this series — covering the theatrical premiere, the broadcast premiere, and Episode 1's deep physics dive — mapped The Calamity's power systems onto quantum decoherence, ...

For more than 60 years, evolutionary biologists have debated whether a unique genetic system found in ants, bees and wasps ...

Until we relearn how to navigate conflict, every political clash will reinforce the false belief that fellow citizens are enemies.

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Kelly the dolphin gamed her own reward system, then taught the trick to her calf — echoing real tool-use traditions found in wild dolphin populations.

For decades, scientists have known that most people of non-African ancestry carry a small amount of Neanderthal DNA, evidence that modern humans and Neanderthals interbred after leaving Africa roughly ...

Scientists have long known that the DNA code in genes is not the only way to pass genetic traits from parents to offspring. "Epigenetic" marks—chemical modifications to DNA that don't change the DNA ...

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