Minions & Monsters is out now, and the newest movie in the Despicable Me and Minions franchise redefines what can be done ...

Starting one's sex life and having children at a young age can run in the family. But can pregnancy have beneficial health ...

Government agencies in Arkansas too often continue to stumble over one of the simplest obligations in the Freedom of Information Act: the duty to redact public records--the process of removing or ...

Recent decades have seen the facilitation of unconventional or even extraordinary reproductive endeavours. Sperm has been harvested from dying or deceased men at the request of their wives; ...

Epaulette sharks can reproduce without any measurable increase in energy use, stunning researchers who expected egg-laying to be costly. Scientists tracked metabolism, blood, and hormone levels ...

New research from James Cook University has made the extraordinary discovery that epaulette sharks can reproduce and lay eggs without any measurable rise in energy use. JCU's shark physiology research ...

Self-reproduction is one of the most fundamental features of natural life. This study introduces a biochemistry-free method for creating self-reproducing polymeric vesicles. In this process, ...

Until now, cells dividing by mitosis were thought to grow round and then split into two identical, spherical daughter cells. New research has found that some cells are isomorphic, meaning they retain ...

A study from the Institute of Environmental Medicine (IMM) at Karolinska Institutet published in Toxicological Sciences shows that the chemical di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP), which is found in ...

University of California Press, 2018, 304 pp. In the 1970s, feminists demanded that their government pay them wages for housework. Beginning with the International Feminist Collective in Italy in 1972 ...

You might think flowers don’t have much choice about who they mate with, given they are rooted to the ground and can’t move. But when scientists from Nagoya, Japan used powerful microscopes to study ...

The dominant evolutionary theory about why animals age and die is the disposable soma theory (DST). This posits that during reproduction, individuals are forced to trade-off allocation of resources ...