The response to the coronavirus outbreak has rightly been about protecting human life. As a nation, we have taken extraordinary steps to protect public health and save lives. However, there is a huge ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As an evolutionary biologist whose career has focused on how embryos develop in a wide variety of species over the course of ...

Many state legislatures are seriously considering human embryos at the earliest stages of development for legal personhood. Total abortion bans that consider humans to have full rights from the moment ...

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a 'fairy tale,' rooted in ...

A study published this year in the Journal of Population Economics suggests climate change may result in lower rates of human conception. However, it’s not due to less sex, and it doesn’t necessarily ...

Françoise Baylis is affiliated with the International Science Council. Jocelyn Downie does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit ...