Understanding the evolution of insect mating behavior is essential for explaining how early insects adapted to life on land.

This summer, I got cultural whiplash. As a child of the ’90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother’s and grandmother’s generations’ fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in an address Tuesday to the military’s top leaders waded back into a topic that nearly derailed his confirmation early this year and helped elevate his voice as a Fox ...

This isn’t your usual aquarium run. Instead of store-bought fish, these bettas are netted straight from the wild, showing their natural beauty up close. The experience is both challenging and ...

Biological sex is usually described in simple binary terms: male or female. This works well for germ cells (sperm versus eggs), but for other body organs it is of little help. A new study by the Max ...

Elise Huchard receives funding from CNRS and the French Agence Nationale pour la Recherche (ANR). Nikos Smit does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

The study measured “rank” within the bonobo communities by tallying how many times females won conflicts with males. Females usually came out on top. Photograph by Christian Ziegler By banding ...

Ever been told to "just plug the male end into the female port" and suddenly felt like you missed a day in tech class and health class? You're not alone. Despite the oddly anatomical terminology, the ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on what is acceptable when trying to increase book sales. By Kwame Anthony Appiah I’ve recently heard some sharp comments from friends about male authors publishing ...