A recent study reveals that people who are highly open to new experiences tend to have fewer children. Scientists attribute this to delayed parenthood, shorter romantic relationships, and a lower ...

When ancient humans interbred, new research shows that the pairings were predominantly male Neanderthals and female Homo ...

Will humanity extend into the far future? It's likely many of us think it should. The problem is that each of us, individually and collectively, act otherwise—we are destroying the environment and ...

The transition from non-life to life was very likely aided by an asteroid hitting Earth, prebiotic chemistry, molecular ...

From vaccines to sedatives, not all accidental injections are minor. Here's what you need to know about recognizing risk and ...

Growing tissues can crack, break, and dissociate to form structures that can later withstand immense forces.

A very detailed video has revealed what happens to the female body in the lead up to having sexual intercourse with someone ...

There are only a few hundred black-footed ferrets still living in the Western United States. But scientists have been able to clone ferrets from genetic specimens collected in the 1980s. Here & Now’s ...

Scientists following humpback whales once brought to the brink of extinction in the South Pacific made a fascinating discovery: Older males were more likely to become fathers and younger males were ...

We have many challenges but at the same time we have a lot of strength”, says Maria Antonieta Alcalde Castro, the new Director General of the International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF).

The human genome is a rich, complex record of migration, encounters, and inheritance written over thousands of millennia.