Pennington Biomedical researchers recently investigated the systems of the body that regulate weight, exploring whether our ...
Women who had two to three children in their late 20s and early 30s showed the slowest aging and best survival rates, ...
Pennington Biomedical researchers recently investigated the systems of the body that regulate weight, exploring whether our bodies defend an established weight target or if our bodies operate within a ...
H aving kids is costly. Not just financially, but biologically, too. At least in theory. Evolutionary biologists propose that ...
A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women's lifespan ...
A study based on Finnish twins shows that reproductive history is associated, at the population level, with women's lifespan ...
The pursuit to fulfill this mandate not only brings clarity to our meaning and purpose in this world, but it also creates the ...
A large-scale analysis of 117 mammal species found that preventing reproduction is associated with longer lifespans, suggesting a strong link between reproductive activity and life expectancy. Why do ...
For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...
The origin of life on Earth becomes even more fascinating and complex as we peer into the mysterious world of viruses. Said to have existed since living cells first appeared, these microscopic ...
It may have fewer than many of the other sciences, but biology does have two dozen or so “rules”—broad generalizations about ...