Japanese researchers have tested whether or not cats recognize their owners' voices. The good news: they can. The bad news: they're probably going to ignore it. Read on io9 12/01/13 8:30pm Sunday 8:30pm

One of the classic images from evolutionary theory is of two males smashing each other up to compete for the chance to fertilize a female. Scientists have spent over a century studying this kind of male competition, but new discoveries reveal that competition between females is just as important. Read on io9 11/11/13 4:42pm 11/11/13 4:42pm

Guys. YOU GUYS. Baby snow leopards. On camera. Live. Right now. QUICKLY YOU GUYS THEY'RE PURRING. Read on io9 6/24/13 10:05pm 6/24/13 10:05pm

Clearly the First Wives Club was onto something. They can't tell us what to do, they can't tell us what to say, but they may have dried us up at 50 because they started going for the young ladies. Cool. Read… 6/15/13 5:30pm 6/15/13 5:30pm

Photographer, artist, and twin, Julie de Waroquier, created a series of surreal photographs of identcial twins — a project that won first prize in the Emergent Artists Award 2012 and of which she wrote, "[t]wins have always fascinated me, and not only because I have a twin brother. They are almost magic, and yet they… Read… 1/15/13 11:30pm 1/15/13 11:30pm

While it's messy and a general pain, being on your menstrual cycle can be such a handy excuse. Remember when it would get you out of gym class? All you had to do was tell your P.E. teacher that you were on the rag and BOOM you were on the bench instead of playing ultimate frisbee with your fellow classmates. And now,… Read… 10/25/12 12:20pm 10/25/12 12:20pm

While winning a Grammy carries less and less clout by the year, there are still some honors a musician can achieve that actually mean something — the honors just happen to have nothing to do with music and everything to do with plant life. Scientists at Duke University have recently named 19 species of fern for Mama … Read… 10/23/12 12:00pm 10/23/12 12:00pm

In Aesop's famous fable, the tortoise defeats the hare in the race because he proceeds slowly and steadily. But now, information about turtles is giving rise to a new theory: the tortoise won because he's got a huge wang and didn't need to prove anything to anyone. Read… 6/11/12 12:50pm 6/11/12 12:50pm

Today the National Geographic Society announced the recipient of the 10,000th grant it's given in its 123-year history: 32-year-old conservation biologist Krithi Karanth. We spoke with Dr. Karanth about her work, and about what it's like to be a female scientist both in the US and her native India. Read… 12/08/11 5:10pm 12/08/11 5:10pm

Remember this summer, when Miss America contestants were asked if evolution should be taught in our schools, and everyone except for the pinko commie blue state beauty queens responded as though they were being interviewed for the position of news anchor on Fox & Friends, hemming and hawing as though they'd been… Read… 11/28/11 4:20pm 11/28/11 4:20pm

What's wily like a coyote, but hungry like a wolf? A coyote-wolf hybrid! Scientists have confirmed that these modern-day dire wolves are now sweeping the country, appearing as far east as New York. Biologist Christine Bozarth says the hybrids "should be able to do things like take down deer, which a little, scrappy… Discuss… 11/07/11 6:00pm 11/07/11 6:00pm

Another blow to the idea that homosexuality is unnatural- researchers have found a surprising frequency of homosexual behavior among insects. Read… 8/21/11 4:20pm 8/21/11 4:20pm

While it sounds like the plot of something Kurt Vonnegut might write after reading Upton Sinclair and then dropping acid, biologists claim that it's not far fetched to assume that in the future, our meat won't come from animals that we kill; it will be grown in petri dishes in giant labs by mad scientists who drive… Read… 2/20/11 5:44pm 2/20/11 5:44pm

A woman, whom the medical journal Current Biology simply calls SM, has a rare from of brain damage, and literally can not feel fear. But researchers sure had a good time trying to scare her! Read… 12/20/10 2:17pm 12/20/10 2:17pm

At any rate, they've discovered how to "reverse the aging process...dramatically." Human organs are in their sights. Read… 11/29/10 4:08pm 11/29/10 4:08pm

According to today's "Science Times," it's not that we shrink with age: it's that we lose our ability to regain height. Adults actually "shrink and regain height on a daily basis, as much as three-quarters of an inch." [NYT] Discuss… 1/09/10 6:40pm 1/09/10 6:40pm

Marjorie Grene, a scientist instrumental in creating the study of Philosophy of Biology, has died at 98. Dr. Grene was the first woman to get a volume in the "Library of Living Philosophers" series. [NYT] Discuss… 3/30/09 1:20pm 3/30/09 1:20pm

According to a (gross) new study, female body odor smells like a variety of savory foods! Read on! Read… 1/29/09 2:20pm 1/29/09 2:20pm

"Menopause is evolution's way of solving the age-old tensions between wives and their mothers-in-law," reads a headline in the Daily Mail. Michael Cant, a biologist at Exeter University, says: "When more than one female breeds, every mouth you feed is one less for your own." Apparently older women stop being fertile so… Discuss… 4/03/08 9:45am 4/03/08 9:45am

Check out this excellent blurb from 1936, depicting women winning honors in science. These cancer researchers, vinegar fly dissectors, and solar eclipse peepers were truly revolutionary. [Modern Mechanix] Discuss… 12/14/07 12:45pm 12/14/07 12:45pm