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December 25, 2023

Scientists suggest exchange with humpback whale could eventually lead humans to communicate with aliens

A group of scientists suggests the same method they used to communicate with a humpback whale could eventually be used by aliens to make contact with humans.

November 10, 2023

Ivy League professor promotes 'thought-provoking' pro-bestiality study

An Ivy League professor promoted a pro-bestiality study online, calling it "thought-provoking" and a piece that "challenges one of society's strongest taboos."

August 16, 2023

Rachel Levine praises gender clinic pushing biological sex revisionism, referring to moms as 'egg producer'

Health and Human Services' Admiral Rachel Levine praises an Alaskan gender clinic promoting biological sex revisionism, including striking out the term 'mother.'

August 1, 2023

Richard Dawkins slams transgender 'distortion of reality': 'Sex really is binary'

Outspoken atheist and biologist Richard Dawkins criticized the transgender movement as a “distortion of reality" on his podcast “The Poetry of Reality."

July 12, 2023

Maryland paleontologists discover 115-million-year-old rare fossils in Dinosaur Park

Maryland paleontologists and volunteers discovered the largest theropod fossil in Eastern North America, leading to the discovery of a bone bed of fossils in a geologic layer.

June 27, 2023

Scientist who dedicated her life to saving nearly extinct monkey species celebrates 4 decades of research

Karen Strier began studying the northern muriqui monkeys when there were only 50 left in existence. Her life's work has helped to revive the species.

June 26, 2023

College allegedly fired biology professor for teaching sex was determined by chromosomes X and Y

A Texas community college reportedly fired one of its biology professors for teaching his students that sex was determined by X and Y chromosomes.

May 19, 2023

Meet the American who unlocked the science of gender, Nettie Stevens, female research pioneer

Nettie Stevens was a pioneer of genetics research, proving that sexual identity was a hereditary trait passed through chromosomes — and not determined by environment.

May 8, 2023

Bills defining gender 'too narrow,' sex 'more complicated than just male or female' claims NPR

NPR claimed that sex was "more complicated than just male or female" in a report criticizing GOP laws defining gender, warning such laws would harm transgender individuals.

April 30, 2023

Climate chaos? Bugs will thrive in an ever-warming world, say scientists

Michigan State University (MSU) biologists have found that bugs will thrive in a warming world, according to new research into climate and environment.