For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their ...

Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an embryo—the developmental stage before a fetus—to implant in the woman’s uterus. Part of the problem is that researchers have no idea how ...

Analyzing embryo movements in uteruslike environments could offer clues to improving the success rate of in vitro fertilization ...

Over the past decade, I have made some bold predictions about the future of sex. One that’s been easy is that people will still be having sex for years to come, but for different reasons: they simply ...

Human reproduction is influenced by a complex interplay of biology, genetics, and socioeconomic factors. Over the past few decades, substantial changes have occurred in reproductive trends across high ...

Recently, scientists have reviewed the existing literature to understand how space travel, space radiation, and microgravity affect human reproductive functions. This review was published in Npj ...

If humanity’s future really is in the stars, what will that mean when it comes to, well, making more humans? As a number of ...

Scientists recorded in 3D and in real time the exact moment a human embryo implanted itself in an artificial uterus, opening ...

A female grey seal tending to her pup on the beaches of Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Gray seals only nurse their pups for 15-20 days before the female leaves and the pup must learn to forage on its own.

Every schoolchild learns that vitamin D is essential for proper bone development. Deficiency leads to rickets, a classical childhood affliction with soft, deformed bones resulting in bowed legs. The ...

Which led me to ask: how might human evolution be altered by interactions with a world of rich AI diversity? In a paper just published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, I considered the many ways AI ...