To develop AI capable of analysing a vast and complex dataset – such as all pregnancy details across a period of time for the ...

Scientists warn that radiation and microgravity pose a major threat to human reproduction in space. Understanding these biological risks is essential for the future of long-term space travel.

Life doesn't arrive in neat chapters. It flows, one conversation bleeding into the next, one thought quietly reshaping the one that follows. Yet our brains do something remarkable: they preserve a ...

Neanderthals disappeared from the fossil record approximately 40,000 years ago. Their extinction was a gradual process over thousands of years, and theories as to why include competition with modern ...

Alas, there are no homunculi crammed inside the smallest human cells. Yet recent research in fertility and urology suggests Hartsoeker’s image could work metaphorically: Sperm can be a proxy for the ...

Age, biological sex, and human genetic factors influence the production of antibodies during the immune response. A team of scientists from the Institut Pasteur, the CNRS and the Collège de France ...

What if Homo erectus (H. erectus), the direct ancestor of modern humans, arrived in China much earlier than we thought? Research published in Science Advances may rewrite our understanding of early ...

With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

Scientists at Michigan State University have uncovered the molecular “switch” that powers sperm for their final, high-speed dash toward an egg. By tracking how sperm use glucose as fuel, the team ...

A study reported that the conventional method of searching follicular fluid didn’t find all the eggs. The new technology ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Human fertility is a complex and multifactorial process influenced by genetic, hormonal, physiological, behavioral, and environmental determinants. A growing body of evidence has highlighted a ...