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A gene regulating testosterone in ruffs produces three male morphs with unique behaviors, offering insights into vertebrate biology and potential human therapeutic applications. A single gene regulati ...

A new study has revealed a surprising flirting tactic - and scientists say it is almost guaranteed to bag you a date.

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Vasya Tremsin, a (then) high school senior from the San Francisco Bay Area, came up with a crazy idea for a science fair ...

A single gene that regulates testosterone levels in a "crazy" species of shore bird controls the development of three wildly ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting new federal leases for offshore wind projects. He cited the impact ...

In videos that recently went viral, the ants — called longhorn crazy ants (Paratrechina longicornis ... a professor at the ...

Fast radio bursts are mysterious and brief flashes of radio emissions that were thought to be produced by magnetars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars. Yet magnetars appear primarily in young ...

Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the ...

When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes proved to be the smarter species. That’s not to denigrate human ...