“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ...

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You don't have to be a genius: anemones have been using human genes to form their bodies for 600 million years.

An international team of researchers, led by the University of Queensland and Imperial College London, has proposed a new ...

"Size matters" sounds like a tabloid cliché, but for evolutionary biologists the size of the human penis is truly a puzzle.

Over the past few years, studies have suggested that plastic particles from bottles, food packaging and waste have been ...

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It seems like every week, there’s a new headline about some kind of sci-fi-esque organ transplant. Think eyeballs, 3D-printed kidneys, pig hearts. In her new book, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human ...

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Despite its importance, the heart is one of the few tissues in the human body that can't repair damage very well – or at ...