Women are raised to believe that they are the more compassionate and caring sex. They are told from girlhood that their inborn nature is to be friendly, kind, generous, and hospitable, putting others ...

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The following is an excerpt from “You’ve Been Pooping All Wrong,” by Trisha Pasricha, MD, MPH, which will be published on Tuesday. Science has finally settled the age-old debate of whose farts smell ...

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On a gray and rainy Thursday morning, I traveled south to the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge. On a typical soggy March day in the Northwest, it seemed I wanted to find Washington’s ...

Behind every FaceTime call, Zoom meeting, and late-night voice note is a piece of technology most people never think twice about—but it didn’t just appear out of nowhere. A Black woman whose work ...

In the harsh Arctic tundra, survival runs on a strict budget of calories and minerals, and every nutrient matters. Yet female reindeer and caribou invest precious energy into growing something that ...

*Google has released “The Art of Possible,” a documentary honoring the remarkable career of Dr. Marian Croak, whose inventions have quietly shaped the way the world communicates. The film arrives ...

Google has released The Art of Possible, a new documentary celebrating the extraordinary life of Marian Rogers Croak, Ph.D. The trailblazer and inventor is one of the reasons we can enjoy modern ...

That is what the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is hoping for. PETA sent a letter to Butler University President James Danko on Thursday requesting that the school end its ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. You’re listening to our weekly science news roundup. First up, a worrying prediction ...

UC Associate Professor Joshua Miller holds a female caribou antler he collected from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers observed that caribou routinely gnaw on shed antlers while grazing ...