This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

Abortion is called “health care”; in reality, it is the killing of a developing human life. The slogan “my body, my choice” ...

In vitro fertilization costs thousands of dollars and is often too expensive for many people struggling to conceive. A new ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

At first glance, it looks like the start of a human pregnancy: A ball-shaped embryo presses gently into the receptive lining ...

By engineering a system replicating the womb lining with high biological accuracy, researchers at the Babraham Institute and ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights ...

Research into how a father’s choices — such as diet, exercise, stress, nicotine use — may transfer traits to his children has ...

A 1.6-million-year-old Ethiopian skull blends ancestor and descendant features, rewriting the origin story of Homo erectus.

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

PHOENIX - What's being billed as a legislative study of in vitro fertilization could be the first step toward banning the process outright in Arizona. The proposal by Sen. Nancy Barto, R-Phoenix, ...