The fountain of youth may have been friendship all along. In A Nutshell Male bottlenose dolphins with close friendships show ...

Cutting off reproduction — from birth control to castration — consistently adds years to life across species, even humans.

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

A new study warns modern life may undermine key human survival traits, from fertility to cognition, as environmental ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

In the animal kingdom, penises can be spiked, split, corkscrewed—even detachable. They're one of the most diverse structures in biology. The human penis is so uniform, it's an anatomical outlier.

Polluted, noisy and crowded urban environments can impair physical performance. Living in modern cities may not be good for human health, according to evolutionary scientists from Loughborough ...

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 ...

Our cells are continually being exposed to environmental assaults. For instance, skin is exposed to pollutants and UV radiation. Our lungs are subject to environmental stimuli such as smoke ...

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 ...

A human embryo embeds itself into a fake uterus created by researchers. Screenshot from an Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia video Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an ...