Who among us doesn’t remember the iconic Troll Dolls of our childhoods? Wild-haired, charmingly unattractive and, much of the time, stark naked, these dolls – complete with ostentatious belly ...

This story appears in the November 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine. In sexual reproduction—the way most life-forms procreate—each parent provides half an offspring’s chromosomes.

Imagine a gene that promotes sexual reproduction, such as by making it more likely that a plant will reproduce via sexually produced seeds as opposed to some asexual process (e.g., budding ...

The indictment of 13 Russians charged with attempting to manipulate American voters using social media shines a fascinating light on a sophisticated, relentless operation to exploit the internet ...

In fact, scientists have been asking for decades, why does sexual reproduction even exist? If the goal of life is spreading one's genes far and wide, asexually reproducing organisms seem to have ...

Plant reproduction is the production of new individuals from one or more parent plants. This can be accomplished by sexual or asexual means. The core structure of rape sporopollenin consists of ...

We’re talking internet trolls. In children's stories a troll is an angry, anti-social monster hiding under bridges ready to snatch up goats called Billy. Instead of under bridges, internet ...

"Trolls Band Together" is a wonderful mishmash of boy bands, Troll families, and good times. The third film in the franchise ...

Like the hair of a Chia pet Troll doll, the "Trolls" franchise seems to never stop growing. The glittery DreamWorks ...

Troll Face, or Trollface, was created by Carlos Ramirez, an Oakland-based artist, on September 19th, 2008. Initially drawn as part of a webcomic about the pointless nature of trolling on a 4chan ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

Is the so-called ‘Dark Triad’ key to understanding trolls? Here, psychologists reveal everything you need to know. “I found out because he texted me that we were filed. Forty-five minutes ...