When someone is sick, it's natural to want to stay as far from them as possible. It turns out this is also true for mice, according to an MIT study that also identified the brain circuit responsible for this distancing behavior.
Plants & Animals
Mar 31, 2021
0
308
If you are in a special relationship with another person, thank grandma - not just yours, but all grandmothers since humans evolved.
Social Sciences
Sep 7, 2015
10
937
It is known that genes inherited from ancient retroviruses are essential to the placenta in mammals, a finding to which scientists in the Laboratoire Physiologie et Pathologie Moleacuteculaires des Retrovirus Endogenes et ...
Biotechnology
Sep 2, 2016
2
663
Most female mammals give birth and care for their offspring, while the males often breed with multiple partners and play little role in parenting once the mating is over. Yet researchers have had a hard time pinpointing where, ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 7, 2015
13
1161
The highly unusual "semi-identical" Australian twins reported last week are the result of a rare event. It's thought the brother and sister (who have identical genes from their mother but not their father) developed from ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 11, 2019
0
10
Same-sex sexual behaviour is common in animals but puzzles evolutionary biologists since it doesn't carry the same obvious benefits as heterosexual courtship behavior that leads to mating and production of offspring. A study ...
Evolution
May 12, 2016
0
23
Researchers from Slovenia have discovered oral sexual encounters in a spider, and have published their findings on April 29, 2016 in the journal Scientific Reports. Spiders are known for their unusual sexual behaviors, notably ...
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2016
0
222
The DNA you inherit from your parents contributes to the physical make-up of your body—whether you have blue eyes or brown, black hair or red, or are male or female. Your DNA can also influence whether you might develop ...
Biotechnology
Mar 16, 2015
4
2015
Female fish in the Bahamas have developed ways of showing males that "No means no."
Evolution
Aug 19, 2015
0
85
Queen stingless bees face an increased risk of being executed by worker bees if they mate with two males rather than one, according to new research by the University of Sussex and the University of São Paulo.
Plants & Animals
Aug 20, 2019
1
180
