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 ...

Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an embryo—the developmental stage before a fetus—to implant in the woman’s uterus. Part of the problem is that researchers have no idea how ...

Researchers at the University of Maine are theorizing that human beings may be in the midst of a major evolutionary ...

Scientists have detected microplastics in human semen and follicular fluid, the liquid that surrounds an egg in an ovarian follicle. "This is not an isolated finding –– it appears to be quite common," ...

Over the past decade, I have made some bold predictions about the future of sex. One that’s been easy is that people will still be having sex for years to come, but for different reasons: they simply ...

If humanity’s future really is in the stars, what will that mean when it comes to, well, making more humans? As a number of experts have pointed out, venturing into space also means exposing people to ...

Human reproduction is influenced by a complex interplay of biology, genetics, and socioeconomic factors. Over the past few ...

Recently, scientists have reviewed the existing literature to understand how space travel, space radiation, and microgravity affect human reproductive functions. This review was published in Npj ...

Researchers have captured the very first real-time, three-dimensional images and videos of a human embryo implanting into collagen designed to mimic uterine tissue —a key stage in reproduction. The ...

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 ...

Cat Bohannon, author of Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, says sexism is a massive set of rules all cultures have to control female reproduction. For Bohannon, sex ...