Known for spending much of its life underground, the little-known American burying beetle could hold the key to developing ...

The Argentinian marine biologist and conservationist has spent the past 36 years championing the world’s penguins and their ...

This story appears in the August 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... Our sleep-wake pattern is a central feature of human biology—an adaptation to life on a spinning planet, with ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... These jellies are about an inch across. “In the human life cycle, our body, when we’re born, has all the ...

The National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) proudly announces the 2025 theme for National Minority Health Month: “Health ...

The statistical method can also be used to model disease spread and studying how animals move through geographic regions ... to a thought experiment in human biology: imagine two biological ...

Multilevel selection is a controversial concept originally proposed by Darwin. A new study found evidence for it in the wild in a group of marmots scientists have been observing for more than 60 years ...

One of the method's applications is to give a more complete sense of human ancestry ... in a certain geographic area can shift so much over time, geographic and national labels can also be ...

George Rau Jr. brought 10 Wall Lizards from Lake Garda, Italy, to Cincinnati in 1951, and 70 years later, the city has an ...

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Autism has a genetic component, but symptoms also depend on gut health and the gut-brain axis. New research shows that ...