A 30-year study finds that female bonobos dominate males through alliances, clever tactics, and full control over food and ...

A right-wing party in New Zealand is pushing a bill that would legally define “men” and “women” according to biological sex. If passed, the legislation would clearly define the legal ...

A new book explains much of what is known about these diverse animals, including pleasure and sex—as well as the downsides of our misleading perceptions of these sentient beings.

That's because sex — and gender roles, too —permeates all the way down to the most unreproductive of cell types. If you want ...

Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master’s degree from Indiana University in April 2009 studying the mating behavior of seahorses.

New research reveals a long-overlooked female organ may be essential for egg development and reproductive function relating ...

The ruling was a blow to trans rights advocates and cheered by For Women Scotland, which filed the case. The government said ...

Campaigners who had supported the legal challenge branded the judgment a “victory for biology, for common sense ... Baroness ...

“He (Harris) took 100% full advantage of me until I was able to escape from him,” the female human-trafficking victim said in her statement read aloud by Victim Advocate Michelle Van Laan.

"Based on cell biology 101 and textbook pictures of cells, you might think that we understand everything about a cell. But what's remarkable is that for no human cell type do we really have a ...

While Ichikawa applauded Bondi's "fiery statement" regarding the safety of incarcerated women, the advocate warned that the issue of men in women's prisons is "a nationwide female human rights crisis.

Flemming Hansen and Mette Helbaek also left 158 barrels of human waste and sewerage now seeping into the nearby forest, The Guardian reported. Their staff claimed that several animals, including ...