Scientists found that kissing likely originated millions of years ago in great apes and was shared by early human relatives, including Neanderthals.

Blood cancers such as leukemia are caused by genetic changes in the blood-forming stem cells of the bone marrow. Scientists ...

The jab that can prevent girls from having pregnancy complications later in life - The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine has ...

A new core exploration course titled “The Biology of Sex and SEX” will be offered this spring. The class, co-taught by ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has found evidence that kissing evolved in the common ancestor of humans and ...

Kissing is something of a mystery, being "only documented in 46 percent of human cultures," noted psychologist Catherine ...

A Senate committee advanced a bill Tuesday that would standardize kindergarten cutoff dates – with an amendment that would ...

Yi Du and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Sciences published an article in the open access journal PLOS Biology ...

The United States is the main market for “ornamental” marine fish, those that end up as pets in aquariums. Now, a new study ...

New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

A new paper by evolutionary anthropologists Colin Shaw (University of Zurich) and Daniel Longman (Loughborough University) ...

The MacArthur Foundation is awarding $100 million to a private pandemic prevention network across Africa, offering critical ...