The findings have the potential to resolve the longstanding "Muddle in the Middle" of human evolution, researchers said.

A viable male birth control exists. One that has already undergone years of successful human trials, with vastly fewer reported side effects than ...

Scientists digitally reconstructed a 1 million-year-old skull unearthed in China. The analysis suggests it may have belonged to an ancestor of the Denisovans and “Dragon Man.” ...

Fruit fly study shows high-fat diets impair memory in days by jamming the brain’s cleanup system. Damage reversed when cells’ recycling boosted.

Bioethics debates intensify as scientists experiment with designer babies, synthetic embryos, and genetic editing. The Fed's interest rate decision and what it means for you: live updates Putin foe ...

Luoyang Key Laboratory of Clinical Multiomics and Translational Medicine, Henan Key Laboratory of Rare Diseases, Endocrinology and Metabolism Center, The First Affiliated Hospital, and College of ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. There are precision measurements, and then there’s the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. In each of LIGO’s twin ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into collagen designed to mimic uterine tissue —a key stage in reproduction. The ...

When I think of my friend Andre, my mind drifts back 50 years to our times in grade school delivering papers together during frigid upstate New York winters. Then my mind drifts back 45 years to the ...

Finally, researchers are closing in on an oral male contraceptive pill that works without hormones, offers full reversibility and – most strikingly – has caused zero side effects. The pill, called YCT ...

New research suggests that empathy coming from a human, rather than AI, still matters to us. As artificial intelligence finds its way into healthcare, therapy, and daily emotional support chatbots and ...