Humans like plants. We like seeing them change the colour of their leaves throughout the year. They connect us to nature even if we live in a big ...

A study suggests menopause gives an evolutionary advantage to some whales. The findings could offer clues about menopause in ...

Paul Cezanne’s Pommes et oranges (around 1899) is one of the paintings that will show at his self-titled exhibition at ...

Biologists are confronting a problem they thought they had mostly solved: what, exactly, counts as life. A wave of ...

The reproductive biology of reptiles encompasses a wider range of strategies than is often assumed in general accounts of the ...

The white-handed gibbon comes closest to humans in the study, with a monogamy rate of 63.5%. It’s the only other top-ranked “monotocous” species, meaning it usually has one offspring per pregnancy, ...

Despite being mammals, these remarkably cancer-resistant animals share a lot in common with cold-blooded species.

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...