One of the great tragedies of the 21st century,” Nan Schaffer once said, “will be humanity’s homogeneity.” The remark was ...

What Animal Sex Teaches Us About Being Human by Dr Matilda Brindle, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford. Bianca Bexton, editorial director, acquired UK and Commonwealth rights from ...

A microbiologist is proposing the idea that the reign of dinosaurs forced mammals to speed up their reproductive cycle, ...

The rise in infertility is not limited to humans, as environmental stressors are quietly undermining the reproductive ...

How do our genes determine our appearance and our susceptibility to disease? This question is central to biomedical research, ...

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who raced to decode the human genome, died on Wednesday in San Diego. He was 79 ...

Scientist and medical technology entrepreneur J. Craig Venter published the first bacterial genome ever decoded in 1995. The ...

Why do 90% of humans reach with the same hand? The answer stretches back millions of years and involves fossils, language and ...

You are not broken; rather, you are a human being who has experienced hardship. Even better news: You hold the power to ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — Apollo astronauts set the world record for distance from the Earth more than 50 years ago, but the Artemis II crew broke the record for distance on Monday afternoon as they are ...