biology
In his new book, The Deep History of Ourselves, Joseph LeDoux explains where we come from.
Taking the fourth spot on Big Think’s 2019 top 10 countdown is the question: Evolutionarily speaking, is being gay still something of an enigma?
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A 2020 space mission wants to use zero gravity to disable some of the hardest cancers to fight.
You cannot live on steak and avocados alone, says Jillian Michaels, in this divisive video.
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Long-lasting capsule can remain in the stomach and release contraceptive drugs over several weeks.
The axolotl is known to regrow its lower jaw, its retinae, ovaries, kidneys, heart, rudimentary lungs, spinal cord, and large chunks of its brain.
Veterinarians are concerned. Consumers appear not to be.
An experimental study involving 90 heavy drinkers found promising results.
Researchers found that the popular diet could confer some benefits to your immune system.
Dominant wild silverbacks wax musical with their mouths full.
Bill Bryson’s new book, “The Body: A Guide For Occupants,” provides important (and funny) lessons in anatomy, neuroscience, physiology, biology, and more.
Doctors put a human into suspended animation for the first time ever.
Scientists speculate that if life were to have spontaneously developed on Earth, the first thing there would need to be are vesicles.
An orangutan has settled into a Florida home after a court granted her personhood rights. But what is the basis for personhood?
Getting older — see: looking older — is not ideal in the workplace culture of youthfulness.
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Ferrets are not humans, but this new drug is showing promise.
A DNA study looks for the home of the earliest modern humans.
New research provides insights on the effect of the lunar cycles on wildlife behavior.
The blob that’s astonishing science gets its own exhibit.
Antibiotic resistance poses one of the biggest threats to global public health.
It marks the first time a plant has been grown on the moon.
Has misinformation clouded our understanding of the anti-aging power of hormones?
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Some scientists think there may be a hidden, second form of life living right under our noses.
Scientists find promising results in trial to reverse biological aging.
Determining whether human nature is short-sighted when it comes to survival-necessary situations
In his book, Earth Emotions, Glenn Albrecht coins “psychoterratic.”
A new research article states that the obesity epidemic is affecting more than just waistlines.
A group of at least 20 kids in Spain gets a rare illness with historical roots.
Exercise newbies in their seventies and eighties build muscle at the same rate as master athletes.