Queen Margaret University has awarded an honorary doctorate to leading human rights activist Fatou Baldeh MBE.

A major transition in evolution is the shift from asexual to sexual reproduction in early organisms. But why would a yeast ...

Carolina Granthon, who worked at the World Center for Birds of Prey, wanted to know what made a good condor egg.

For months, he and his team had watched the snake using a transmitter and a trail camera. “I’m just kind of following this ...

But as well as starring returning cast members Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest and fresh faces Maisie Williams and Joey ...

A new study of wild bats reveals that an animal's immune system is shaped by more than its need to fight infections. Researchers from the University of Maryland have found that sex, age and ...

Rather than shying away from technology, female rangers across the continent are combining it with local knowledge to help both wildlife and communities thrive. Holly Budge meets five women who are wo ...

For a great many women in India, the decision to see a doctor turns on something that has little to do with the illness itself. Will there be a woman in the room? That one question can settle whether ...

Women are blamed for fewer babies being born but fertility decisions are more complex than sperm meets egg. It’s time to end ...

If modern feminism’s premises are correct, this should be a moment of unmistakable triumph. Since the second-wave pioneer ...

IBS is a chronic disorder, which involves the way the digestive system works, without any apparent structural damage to the ...

There was, the author writes, ‘no history of what had happened to me’ or historical women, of ‘experiences long considered to ...