Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution blended biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy.

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.

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In a series of tea party-like experiments, Johns Hopkins University researchers demonstrated for the first time that apes can use their imagination and play pretend, an ability thought to be uniquely ...

As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health beyond the bounds of planet Earth is no longer theoretical but now ...

What determines how long we live—and to what extent is our lifespan shaped by our genes? Surprisingly, for decades, scientists believed that the heritability of human lifespan was relatively low ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when reading this story: Chondrichthyan fishes—a group that includes rays, skates, chimaeras, and sharks—are thought to have energy intensive reproduction cycles due in no ...

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University at Albany, State University of New York Consistent with the general trend of incorporating artificial intelligence into nearly every field, researchers ...

A deluge of research has painted a picture of our world being drowned in tiny, inescapable microplastics. Our guilt over plastic particles being found in even the most remote regions on Earth turned ...

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Scientists may have cracked the case of whether a seven-million-year-old fossil could walk upright. A new study found strong anatomical evidence that Sahelanthropus tchadensis was bipedal, including a ...

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) recently reported a striking first: They created human eggs in the lab using skin cells and then fertilized those lab-derived eggs with human ...