New research shows natural selection continues to shape modern humans, influencing traits from red hair to hair loss risk.

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

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

Combined with rising temperatures, chemical pollutants are obliterating animals’ chances of successfully reproducing.

This unassuming octopus pairs bacterial chemistry with evolutionary efficiency to deliver one of the most powerful defenses ...

Oscar-nominated director explores a real-time ecological collapse caused by a behavioral pattern of sexual violence by male ...

For example, right before females ovulate — when estrogen reaches its peak — they tend to be more physically active. The ...

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

Now, scientists are taking control of that formula. The equation for making a human is not straightforward anymore. In a ...

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

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 ...

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