Human aging is not what natural selection failed to prevent. It is what happens when selection simply has nothing left to act ...

New technologies could reimagine baby-making as we know it. But will they actually replace tried-and-tested (and enjoyable) ...

Vivienne Ming argues defending against AI harms requires strengthening human skills and actively questioning AI instead of ...

Researchers at the University of Ottawa and the Institute of Hydrobiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have discovered a new role for reproductive hormone secretoneurin (SN) and, for the first ...

“Estrogen is basically turning up the sensor for acetate,” Ingraham explains. “It’s a compound gut bacteria produce when they ...

Male infertility is increasingly being linked to poor sperm production, with experts warning that lifestyle and health choices play a significant role in reproductive outcomes.Researchers noted that ...

A female Anopheles quadrimaculatus mosquito takes a blood meal from a host. For millennia, this mosquito has spread malaria.

Swiss scientists have published research showing AI-informed robots can learn how to self correct and teach other robots how to behave. It raises questions of consciousness in artificial intelligence.

Weizmann Institute researchers find that yeast born to preferred partners are fitter than those from one-night stands, ...

Fish or sharks on cocaine might sound like something dreamed up in a Hollywood writers’ room, but the reality is far less ...

A massive study of ancient and modern DNA from thousands of West Eurasian people has identified nearly 500 genetic variants ...

Researchers are gaining a new appreciation for the genes on the X and Y chromosomes and how they shape sex differences in ...