Sex is a natural, common, and pleasurable part of human life, yet its impact on the health of the brain is surprisingly understudied.A longitudinal study on life, sexuality, and mental sharpness in...

Researchers looking into the aggressive mating habits of some frogs have discovered that females frequently fake their own deaths to avoid persistent males.This disproves the traditional idea that female frogs passively submit...

Certain smells can change the way that you perceive color, according to recent experiments in the United Kingdom.The effects are so subtle, however, that you've probably never even noticed them. Scientists themselves...

Imagine being a hunter-gatherer nearly 13 thousand years ago. You're minding your own business – gathering berries and hunting wild animals – when suddenly a giant ball of fire appears in the...

My friend recently changed their favourite celebrity crush from Anna Kendrick toLily James. While some people could see the attraction, others mightnot.So, what is it that attracts us to potential mates?A new...

We may know a heck of a lot less about a bizarre kind of cosmic explosion than we thought.They're known as luminous fast blue optical transients, or LFBOTs, and one nicknamed the...

An epidemic of viral pink eye, or conjunctivitis, is plaguing hundreds of thousands in Vietnam, India, and Pakistan.For months amid summer heatwaves and record rainfall, the contagion has been building, as health...

Sexual behavior between members of the same sex might have evolved multiple times in mammals, according to a new study, adding to numerous examples found across the tree of life.More than 1,500...