Can fish feel pain? The debate rages among scientists as to whether fish do, in fact, feel pain or are just reacting ...

Improved analytical techniques mean tiny amounts of endocrine disrupting compounds or PFAS can be found in many places. But ...

Where does fear come from? American psychologist John Watson wanted to find out — so, in the name of science, he tried to ...

Understanding when and why men outperform women, and under what circumstances that can change, is suddenly a fraught topic.

Many blacktip reef sharks in French Polynesia are commonly fed by tourists. But the low-quality diet is changing the sharks’ behavior and physiology.

Post-translational regulation (for example, phosphorylation ... the circadian system impinges on diverse aspects of mammalian physiology that are of relevance for human diseases and their ...

Hibernation is an intricate process where an animal’s body shuts down almost completely in the winter and reactivates in the spring. The main process behind hibernation is a decrease in the animal’s ...

The advent of agriculture 12,000 years ago increased the availability of affordable, energy-dense, palatable food, resulting in a substantial effect on the evolutionary physiology of hunger that ...

Marine-derived lipids, including omega-3 fatty acids, are emerging as potential game-changers in cancer therapy. Research ...

A House committee will hold a hearing this week scrutinizing whether National Institutes of Health animal research amounts to ...

After weeks of watching young tendrils slowly corkscrew their way toward the sun, Charles Darwin invented a system for making ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to ... extended far beyond this — for example, in his pioneering research in discovering new ...