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It's Halloween, and I may not be wearing a scary costume, but I have snuck up on the Chimeras blog. As part of her Author Intervi...

To help protect our big, fragile brains from trauma during sports, why not turn to another animal that voluntarily smashes its skull into so...

If you can't bear to face your inbox before your first cup of coffee, you'll sympathize with cells in your body that are better e...

Did you hear the one about how men are the funnier sex? If not, you're alone. In a recent study of California undergrads, 89% of wo...

Species of the near future, like a new sweater you accidentally put through a tumble-dry cycle, may be smaller and less useful than you reme...

"The courtship chamber was placed on top of an identical chamber, with the chambers separated by muslin gauze," reports geneticis...

The  Ig Nobel awards are an annual, tongue-in-cheek version of their namesake, recognizing researchers for ridiculous-sounding papers ( ...