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In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the eye of conservationists. It's hoped that these corals, conceived ...

Mashable celebrates Pride all year long and honors Pride Month in June by exploring and championing the modern LGBTQ world in all its glorious queerness — including the leaders, conversations, and ...

Apparently ceaselessly shitting on trans people wasn't enough; J.K. Rowling is now mad about the existence of asexual people as well. Taking to Elon Musk's internet, the Harry Potter author chose to ...

Ladies, hold onto your hats. Scientists in Australia published a paper on Tuesday about a female shark that performed a “virgin birth.” Although she hadn’t been around a male shark in three years, the ...

Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

SMBE Journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution) Further analysis of PifA and PifB revealed that they exhibit many of the characteristics of eukaryotic host-associated ...

Jennifer Power receives funding from the Australian Department of Health and Aged Care and the Australian Research Council. In recent years, we’ve seen a burgeoning social movement for the acceptance ...