Dive into the opening of The Selfish Gene's first chapter 'Why are people?', the New Scientist Book Club’s read for June to mark 50 years since the popular science classic was first published ...

We've been looking at nature the wrong way, argues Rowan Hooper. If we stop focusing on the individual, we get a whole new ...

For roughly 30 years, biology students have learned the same tidy diagram of the inside of the nose: four broad zones, each ...

India, May 30 -- Understanding why people think, act, and make decisions the way they do has long fascinated scientists, ...

Pullela Gopichand on The Longevity Code, his recently-released book, co-authored with physician-scientist Dr Sophia Pathai ...

A study of 10 million siblings suggests birth order may influence the risk of allergies, autism, migraines, and other ...

At the appropriately named "Corpse Point" in the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, the permafrost is melting, ...

The son of secular Jewish immigrants, he trained as a sociologist but preferred to think of himself as a 'humanologist' who fused elements of philosophy, psychology, ethnography and biology to try to ...

Sitting all day may be killing us, but taking quick breaks may be the way to save ourselves — and become more productive.

A memoir of menstruation, madness and monsters, is an intimate examination of PMDD, or premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a condition that has caused torment since her early teens and well into her ...

A common farm pesticide may be aging fish faster, raising new fears about invisible damage in freshwater ecosystems.

The medical literature overwhelmingly characterizes the Druze as what researchers call a “genetic isolate,” meaning that ...