Smithsonian biologists are using heart monitors designed for humans to study how high stress levels in animals can hinder ...

Across a Swiss meadow and into its forested edges, the drone dragged a jumbo-size cotton swab from a 13-foot tether. Along ...

Edward O. Wilson is simultaneously one of my intellectual heroes and someone who frustrates me enormously, and these conflicting feelings were once again stirred as I read his most recent book, The ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were caught on a hot mike this week in a discussion that renewed the age-old debate about the potential for people to live to 150.

EDITORIAL: A recommitment to the foundational moral and ethical principle that all life is sacred, at every stage, is needed. “The organ procurement organizations that coordinate access to transplants ...

Biological science has made such astonishing leaps in the last few decades, such as precise gene editing, that scientists are now tackling the next logical — yet inherently controversial — step: ...

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