A new study comparing 59 species of primates linked same-sex sexual behavior to scarce resources and more predators in ...

A new typology helps explain why perpetrators target reproduction and why international law has been so slow to hold them accountable.

Termites are the descendants of cockroaches, and have undergone significant genetic change to live in vast colonies where ...

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

Perhaps the most compelling argument for the distinction between human and AI music lies in the nature of creativity itself.

“Under environmental stress, many species will choose between survival and reproduction, but the epaulette shark might be ...

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 ...

The findings shed new light on human reproduction and suggest pathways for developing treatments to lower the risk of ...

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 ...

Off a quiet hallway on the top floor of a building at the University of Osaka in Japan, Katsuhiko Hayashi is hatching a revolution. Human embryo science: can the world’s regulators keep pace? He is on ...

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 ...

For the first time, scientists have created fertilizable human eggs from skin cells—an advance that the researchers say could pave the way for new infertility treatments, though the technology remains ...