In the US, men on average die 5.8 years earlier than women. A new study offers evolutionary insights into the death gap between men and women.

The puppy and dog training app Woofz has crunched its global data to reveal the most popular dog names of 2025, showing that pet parents are leaning toward short, human-style names. From soft, ...

Female veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder who spent eight weeks training service dogs for other veterans showed measurable changes in their cellular aging markers.

In bees, for example, sex differentiation of larvae into queen, worker, or drone is based on an interplay of environmental and genetic factors. The diet given to biologically female bee larvae ...

Women usually live longer than men, and animals show the same pattern. Evolution, genes, and parenting explain why.

Animals who learned to mimic human speech in the wild and at home.

New research finds that "man's best friend" may help slow biological aging in women. This groundbreaking study, focused on female veterans in the United States, is among the first to examine the ...

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“In this period of rapid change, DOC NYC is proud to present a collection of films that speak to urgent global, national, and personal matters,” DOC NYC artistic director Jaie Laplante said in a ...

If Reddit is to be believed, a “Far Side” cartoon in 1987 that made impolite suggestions about Goodall’s relationships with chimps earned cartoonist Gary Larson an angry letter from the executive ...

Dogs do more than offer companionship – they can change how our bodies handle stress. A new study finds that training service dogs may help slow down biological aging in women, especially those who ...