Birds do it, and bees do it. Indeed, researchers estimate that over 99.9% of eukaryotes reproduce sexually. What, then, are the true costs and benefits of sex? Yet again, this simple example ...

How is the same process responsible for genetic recombination and diversity also the cause of aneuploidy? Understanding the steps of meiosis is essential to learning how errors occur. Researchers' ...

The National Museum of Health and Medicine is located in Washington, D.C. It was created at the start of the Civil War to further the research of military field surgery. Guilbert Gates The museum was ...

A photograph collector from the East Flemish city of Ghent has courted controversy in Greece after he put 200 unique photographs of the execution of Greek Second World War resistance fighter up for ...

Feb. 14, 2026 Scientists at Michigan State University have uncovered the molecular “switch” that powers sperm for their final, high-speed dash toward an egg. By tracking how sperm use glucose as fuel, ...

One of the natural world’s longest-running mysteries spanned thousands of years before it was finally solved: where did eels come from? European eels (Anguilla anguilla) have been eaten since at least ...