Corrales, a recent biological sciences Ph.D. graduate from the University of Rhode Island, and his advisor, Associate ...

The time a spider plant mom remains tethered to her spiderette can be influenced by the daughter plant's environment.

Balanophora plants represent an extreme example of this shift. They do not produce their own food through photosynthesis but ...

In asmall cave tucked away south of Paris, scientists believe they’ve stumbled upon something extraordinary: what might be the oldest known 3D map created by humans. Carved into stone some 20,000 ...

A Neolithic burial in Sweden shows how humans treated dogs as valued companions, offering rare insight into ritual life 5,000 ...

As part of the EU project ECOTIP, an international team of researchers, including the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, has analyzed ...

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...

A study led by University of Arizona researchers shows that decades of groundwater pumping by humans has depleted Tucson-area aquifers far more than natural climate variation. Published in the journal ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

As humans expand into space, how we'll continue to expand the species remains an important question. Spaceflight has a broad impact on the way our body functions — and that includes our reproductive ...

A story circulating on social media this week featured a seemingly made-up scientist who is developing an equally imaginary "pregnancy robot." Virality ensued. When you purchase through links on our ...