What scientists do know from limited laboratory experiments and astronaut data is that space presents a demanding environment ...

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body.

Scientists have urged space agencies to set up guidelines around sex before "things get out of hand" as we enter a "new era of space exploration". With long-duration missions to the Moon and the ...

These “walking sharks” can lay eggs without spending extra energy, rewriting what scientists thought they knew about reproduction.

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Biology have discovered a remarkably streamlined strategy for developmental ...

Stacy Trasancos is a chemist and author of “IVF is Not the Way: The False Promises of Artificial Procreation” (Sophia ...

You'd think we'd know everything there is to know about sexual reproduction. But as it turns out, there are still quite a few ...

Scientists are making inroads in understanding one of the central mysteries of human reproduction: Why do women’s eggs deteriorate as they age? The broad strokes have been well-known — the ticking of ...

The agency revamped its webpages to feature natural causes of rising temperatures such as the Earth’s orbit. EPA has scrubbed references to people’s contribution to rising temperatures from some of ...

In 18th century Vienna, the Hungarian engineer and debutant Wolfgang von Kempelen shocked court patrons with a bizarre contraption: a great mechanical box which could seemingly play and even win chess ...

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...