Everything in life is about sex and money. And now that I have your attention, let me explain. That phrase was one that I often used when presenting key concepts to my biology and marine science ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Ads. Tinder. "Game of Thrones." Flowers in a garden. But just because we see it everywhere doesn't mean that we can definitively explain why it's everywhere. Sexual reproduction is a costly endeavor: ...

A new study of 565 million-year-old fossils has identified how some of the first complex organisms on Earth -- possibly some of the first animals to exist -- reproduced, revealing the origins of our ...

Xenobots are living robots that now can reproduce, a development where researchers have claimed to have done in recent studies of the organisms. The reproduction method of these xenobots are natural ...

In the animal kingdom, reproduction is a necessary part of species survival. Parthenogenesis, a form of asexual reproduction where embryos develop from unfertilized eggs, has been observed in captive ...

Scientists who study how organisms reproduce know that asexual reproduction is more efficient for one thing, it’s about twice as fast as sexual reproduction, since every offspring can produce more.

Life is ubiquitous on Earth and appears in a diversity of forms. But what characteristics do organisms have? What makes them alive? This activity explores that question. In the first part of the ...

Scientists made a substantial breakthrough in understanding how to alter the fundamental nature of life, and they did so by creating for the first time a partially artificial life form that passes ...

Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News covering Microsoft, gaming, and technology you sometimes wear. He previously wrote for ReadWrite, was a news associate at the social-news app Flipboard, ...