If evolution encourages reproduction, why do people have same-sex preferences?

If evolution encourages reproduction, why do people have same-sex preferences?

Brendan Zietsch | 
Same-sex sexual behaviour may seem to present a Darwinian paradox. It provides no obvious reproductive or survival benefit, and yet ...
How important is testosterone for male success?

How important is testosterone for male success?

Amanda Hughes, Neil Davies, Sean Harrison | 
There’s a widespread belief that your testosterone can affect where you end up in life. At least for men, there ...
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GLP Podcast: ‘Big Fears, Little Risks’ — Documentary featuring GLP experts tackles GMO, vaccine skepticism

Azel James, Cameron English, Matty Cardarople | 
The evidence is in: genetic engineering promotes sustainable farming; vaccines save lives; and nuclear energy is our best hope of ...
The ‘storm in their minds’: How the gap between laboratory insights and clinical analysis is narrowing

The ‘storm in their minds’: How the gap between laboratory insights and clinical analysis is narrowing

Elizabeth Landau | 
When someone close to you develops signs of mental illness, you spring into detective mode. You ask questions, but the answers ...
Mice: The intrepid soldiers helping us fight COVID-19

Mice: The intrepid soldiers helping us fight COVID-19

As highly infectious variants of COVID-19 emerge and devastate regions across the world, scientists continue to rely on unexpected foot ...
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Israel’s early COVID vaccine rollout went 1100% better than in the United States. What did they do differently?

Chuck Dinerstein | 
[As of January 8, we had only] vaccinated 1.38% of our population [in the United States, while Israel had] vaccinated ...
GLP Podcast: Anti-smoking drug fights COVID; Designer babies unethical? Scientists invade social media GMO debate

GLP Podcast: Anti-smoking drug fights COVID; Designer babies unethical? Scientists invade social media GMO debate

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Could a re-purposed smoking cessation drug help prevent the spread of SARS-COV-2? An increasing number of parents are screening their ...
Male investment: Humans are one of the few species in which men supply a lot more than sperm

Male investment: Humans are one of the few species in which men supply a lot more than sperm

Elizabeth Preston | 
Lee Gettler is hard to get on the phone, for the very ordinary reason that he’s busy caring for his ...
Viewpoint: Can parents select for healthier children? A new tool for predicting polygenic traits kicks off a fierce debate

Viewpoint: Can parents select for healthier children? A new tool for predicting polygenic traits kicks off a fierce debate

Diana Fleischman, Jonathan Anomaly | 
Motherhood is rewarding, but pregnancy is risky. Pregnant women usually steer clear of environmental risks that can harm the child ...
Did COVID-19 originate in a laboratory? Many scientists still harbor questions

Did COVID-19 originate in a laboratory? Many scientists still harbor questions

Charles Schmidt | 
Nikolai Petrovsky was scrolling through social media after a day on the ski slopes when reports describing a mysterious cluster of ...
GLP Podcast: Biotech's 'dark side'; Pro-science consumers spread 'misinformation'; Mandatory HPV shots?

GLP Podcast: Biotech’s ‘dark side’; Pro-science consumers spread ‘misinformation’; Mandatory HPV shots?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Biotechnology has launched a revolution in food and medicine, but it can also be badly misused by governments and individual ...
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How snake venom and a smoking cessation drug inspired a nasal spray that blocks COVID

Ricki Lewis | 
A simple nasal spray that stops SARS-CoV-2 in its tracks? That could block the coronavirus in the nose, before it ...
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Humans are poor climbers and clumsy jumpers, but boy can we throw. Here’s how and why that happened

Marta Zaraska | 
With the Tokyo Olympics on the horizon, Kara Winger is training hard. “I want to make the top eight in ...
Do our brains predict how we think? Psychedelics may help answer that question

Do our brains predict how we think? Psychedelics may help answer that question

Anil Ananthaswamy | 
“Everything became imbued with a sense of vitality and life and vividness. If I picked up a pebble from the ...
GLP Podcast: When science isn't about evidence; Bayer pulling Roundup off retail shelves; Kenya approves GMO cassava

GLP Podcast: When science isn’t about evidence; Bayer pulling Roundup off retail shelves; Kenya approves GMO cassava

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A researcher who challenged the consensus on obesity was blasted in the media by her colleagues. Is this an example ...
‘Minimizing the probability of adverse outcomes’ is driving the ever-changing, sometimes conflicting recommendations on mask wearing

‘Minimizing the probability of adverse outcomes’ is driving the ever-changing, sometimes conflicting recommendations on mask wearing

Henry Miller | 
There is increasing confusion, and even consternation, over what seem to be disparate policies, recommendations, and mandates emerging in response ...
Why the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to surprise us

Why the COVID-19 coronavirus continues to surprise us

Ricki Lewis | 
As people in the US grapple with a return to masking to stay ahead of the delta and lambda variants ...
Viewpoint: Creationism overruns archaeology? Promotion of indigenous origin stories challenges scientific consensus

Viewpoint: Creationism overruns archaeology? Promotion of indigenous origin stories challenges scientific consensus

Elizabeth Weiss | 
In April, one of us—Elizabeth Weiss—gave a talk, titled Has Creationism Crept Back into Archaeology?, at the 86th Annual Meeting of ...
GLP podcast: Greenpeace v Golden Rice; Vaccine side effects—myth or reality? Objective truth under fire

GLP podcast: Greenpeace v Golden Rice; Vaccine side effects—myth or reality? Objective truth under fire

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The Philippines has finally approved Golden Rice, and Greenpeace is doing everything in its power to reverse the decision. A ...
Skin cancer and screening: The good and the bad of ‘overdiagnosis’

Skin cancer and screening: The good and the bad of ‘overdiagnosis’

Teresa Carr | 
About a decade ago, when he was a first-year dermatology resident, Adewole Adamson learned that “exploding” rates of melanoma were ...
Hulu’s Rosemary's Baby redux ‘False Positive’ bungles the science and stretches credulity

Hulu’s Rosemary’s Baby redux ‘False Positive’ bungles the science and stretches credulity

Ricki Lewis | 
I looked forward to Hulu’s original horror film False Positive, pitched as a modern-day Rosemary’s Baby. It premiered at the Tribeca ...
Our prowess in sports has deep roots in evolution

Our prowess in sports has deep roots in evolution

Anna Goldfield | 
The coming Olympics will showcase some of the most extraordinary human feats of strength, speed, and agility. As an archaeologist ...
High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

High on prehistoric life: When did humans begin experimenting with mind-altering drugs and alcohol?

Nick Longrich | 
Humans constantly alter the world. We fire fields, turn forests into farms, and breed plants and animals. But humans don’t ...
Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Podcast: The COVID genetic sequencing revolution; Ban human gene editing? Brainless slime redefines cognition

Allison Kennedy, Kevin Folta | 
For all the ills it brought, the COVID-19 pandemic may have helped revolutionize genetic sequencing. Human gene editing is fraught ...
How endangered great apes provide a crucial window into human evolution — and why we should help preserve these species

How endangered great apes provide a crucial window into human evolution — and why we should help preserve these species

Mary Mitchell | 
When I was a kid, every trip to the zoo featured a visit to the orangutan habitat. I was fascinated ...
You don’t have to be a COVID vaccine rejectionist to want to fully understand the nonspecific effects (NSE) of vaccines

You don’t have to be a COVID vaccine rejectionist to want to fully understand the nonspecific effects (NSE) of vaccines

David McLelland | 
The world’s attention is presently focused on the mRNA vaccines, which may turn out to be the most revolutionary vaccines ...
Epstein-Barr virus link? Tantalizing clues suggest EBV potentially triggers COVID long-haul symptoms

Epstein-Barr virus link? Tantalizing clues suggest EBV potentially triggers COVID long-haul symptoms

Josh Bloom | 
COVID-19 has already broken all the rules. Since when does a virus make people lose their sense of taste and ...
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