As talk of Mars colonisation and permanent lunar bases accelerates, scientists are issuing a stark warning: human ...

The evolution of the human species is marked by an increase in brain size. Now new research suggests that could be partly ...

As space tourism gets cheaper and missions keep getting longer, scientists are now raising a question that used to be limited ...

Mars colonies is doubt as radiation, microgravity and even toxic lunar dust could scramble fertility ...

Another experiment aboard the ISS examined whether key sperm maturation steps required for fertilization could proceed in ...

Radiation, microgravity and even toxic lunar dust could scramble fertility, derail pregnancies and endanger newborns ...

Describing space as a fundamentally " hostile environment " for all human life, the study highlights the very limited data on ...

Researchers mapped early brain growth from mid-pregnancy to the first month after birth and found signs that sex-linked differences emerge surprisingly early.

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle ...

The secret to youthful appearance and repairing scars may lie in a microscopic skin structure humans share with pigs and ...