For a long time, having children has been a young person’s game. Although ancient records are sparse, researchers estimate that, for most of human history, women most typically conceived their first ...

You'd think we'd know everything there is to know about sexual reproduction. But as it turns out, there are still quite a few ...

Over seven months in the fall of 2012 and the spring of 2013, nine women who had been born without wombs received uterine transplants from living donors; mostly, their mothers. The transplants took ...

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 female grey seal tending to her pup on the beaches of Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Gray seals only nurse their pups for 15-20 days before the female leaves and the pup must learn to forage on its own.

Thanks to more than three decades of monitoring, researchers at the University of Granada reveal how human absence during the ...

Imagine a world where the boundaries of biology are no longer fixed—a world where life can be created in a lab, where artificial intelligence can preserve a version of you long after you’re gone, and ...

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 ...

Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ...

Urbanization is rapidly growing worldwide, often bringing negative effects on wildlife through loss of habitat and ...

A new study reveals that red squirrels fed in city parks become pregnant 24 percent more often than forest females.