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Perched on a plastic chair overlooking a colony of Nazca boobies in the Galápagos Islands, researcher David Anderson carefully studied the seabirds. Anderson, a research professor and professor of ...

Jay Falk explored a fundamental question: How do genes give rise to different bodies? But without funding, “there’s not really a future here.” Lost Science Jay Falk explored a fundamental question: ...

On average, females live longer than males almost everywhere in the world, and have done so throughout most of history. While stereotypes suggest many possible reasons, a team of researchers employed ...

Rob Salguero-Gomez receives funding from NERC. I’ve long been fascinated by one of the most stubborn patterns in biology: males and females rarely live the same length of time. In humans, women nearly ...

Important genetic differences in how females and males experience depression have been revealed for the first time in findings that could pave the way for more targeted intervention and treatments.

A sweeping global study reveals that who lives longer, male or female, is written not in the chromosomes but in the battles for mates, reshaping how scientists understand aging across the animal ...

Sexual behavior is one reason why female mammals typically live longer than their male counterparts, according to a new study. Researchers from Germany, Denmark, France, Hungary and Belgium analyzed ...

The Virginia Board of Health, with the support of Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA), took the next step toward putting regulations in place to prevent transgender-identifying biological males from ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and ...

We now have a better idea of why women live longer than men, on average, thanks to the most comprehensive analysis yet of the differences in lifespan between male and female mammals and birds. The ...