The Buck Institute for Research on Aging has hired the first faculty for what the Novato-based research facility calls a “first of its kind in the world” center for the study of reproduction, ...

Michal Raucher’s research shows ways strictly religious women carve out an independent space around pregnancy and childbirth. Outsiders who see the parade of strollers in Jerusalem’s charedi, or ultra ...

Reproduction permanently alters females' bones in ways not previously known, a team of anthropologists has found. Its discovery, based on an analysis of primates, sheds new light on how giving birth ...

Scientific theory predicts that having more offspring leads to a shorter life span, including in humans. However, despite ...

This story is part of a week-long series on reproduction, from preventing premature births to childfree Reddit. Most nights, talk around Kristin Hamann’s dinner table eventually turns to genetics. Her ...

In the course of evolution, animals have repeatedly shifted from sexual to asexual reproduction. The first evidence of the consequences of parthenogenesis – a type of asexual reproduction – on genome ...

When it comes to reproduction in social insects, nobody competes with the queen. For some time, scientists have known that queen insects give off chemical signals that prevent workers from reproducing ...

Though we can’t perceive them directly, we are surrounded by algorithms in our day-to-day lives: they govern the way we interact with our devices, use computers and ATMs, and move about the world.