I eat beef every day, twice a day,” Kennedy boasted to the hooting crowd. The secretary’s beef-intensive diet, which is ...

This is the last part of a three-part series. Read the first part. The biologist George Wald once compared his work in an exceedingly specialized field, the visual pigments of the eye, to “a very ...

When a client turned my estimate into a paper airplane during a business meeting, I picked up a philosophy book. For the year and a half that followed, my reading expanded rapidly across many genres.

Local governments with a birth rate of zero have emerged. When a society reaches a birth rate of effectively zero, it does not stop immediately, but the mechanisms that support society—such as labor ...

Have you ever puzzled over the meaning of a particular wildlife word or phrase? Then puzzle no more! From the 'Fraser Darling effect' to the 'K-T Boundary', our glossary provides the explanation – in ...

Minions & Monsters director Pierre Coffin, who also voices the Minions, answers how they reproduce, if they can die, and what ...

Males of the species Drosophila melanogaster pack thousands of almost two-millimeter-long sperm cells into significantly smaller storage organs. A new study reveals how they move in an orderly manner ...

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Looking to add a few more Canadian authors to your readinglist? The writers featured on Bookends with Mattea Roach offer ...

A new study of wild bats reveals that an animal's immune system is shaped by more than its need to fight infections. Researchers from the University of Maryland have found that sex, age and ...