Amazon mollies don't need a man, and never will. A new study finds they can purge and repair genetic mutations that would ...

The tiny Amazon molly (Poecilia formosa) has always fascinated researchers because, according to the rules of evolution, it shouldn't have survived as a species, let alone thrive as a species for over ...

After cold winters, invertebrates such as honeybees and paper wasps seem to disappear and then suddenly return in large ...

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

A recent study from the University of Cologne has revealed that microscopic soil worms called nematodes form surprisingly ...

When Kazane Kajiya voluntarily sterilised herself in the United States aged 27, she essentially "flipped the middle finger" at Japan's patriarchal society that had long pushed her towards motherhood.

Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

The Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education (MSBSHSE) conducted the Science and Technology Part ...

Have you ever heard two or more women say they’re on the same cycle? This is a common claim among women who live together, for example in a family or as housemates. This idea that people menstruate, ...

For sexual reproduction to yield healthy offspring, newly generated oocytes—immature egg cells—must receive the correct amount of DNA after cell division. This process of segregating chromosomes ...

We’ve all lifted a rock or flowerpot and found a long, slimy worm underneath. But have you ever done so and found a long, slimy worm with a head shaped like a shovel or a hammer? If you have, you ...

A study reveals how the asexual Amazon molly defies evolutionary expectations — plus, evidence of what might be powering superluminous supernovae.