Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been ...

That snowflake icon on your smartphone app might be quick and handy — it just might not be as accurate as a human when the ...

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ornament to attract females rather than purely as a badge of status to ...

A new study suggests humans belong in an elite “league of monogamy,” ranking closer to beavers and meerkats than to chimpanzees. By comparing full and half siblings across species and human cultures, ...

President Trump is selling permanent membership spots on his new “Board of Peace” for $1 billion—and he won’t tell us what ...

YOUNG VOTERS: State Rep. Kimberly DuBuclet, a Chicago Democrat, has filed new legislation aimed at expanding voter registration access for high school students — and tying it to the legacy of civil ...

As thousands of protestors demonstrate in Washington, DC, at Friday’s annual March for Life, the Trump administration faces a deadline to explain why it opposes a lawsuit that could end the ...

Winter is often linked with cosy evenings, warm clothes, and slower days. But for many people, it also brings low mood, higher stress, reduced energy, and disrupted sleep. These changes are sometimes ...

A new study found that women in Finland who had a lot of kids—or none—aged faster than those with one or a few kids. But the ...

The real revelation, however, came from the men. Men considered a larger penis as an indicator of a rival with both greater ...

Size matters” sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle. Compared to other great apes, such as chimpanzees and go ...

A single enzyme that can generate all four nucleoside triphosphates, the building blocks of ribonucleic acid (RNA), has been ...