We may consider 18- or 21-year-olds adults, but new research suggests the brain isn’t fully developed or stable until our ...

Is it possible to advocate for universal human rights while quietly dismantling the institution one of its core articles was ...

Human biology evolved for a world of movement, nature, and short bursts of stress—not the constant pressure of modern life.

New research suggests the human brain has five distinct ages, and it may not reach adulthood until a person's early 30s.

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

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Editor's note: Dr. Thomas H. Murray is chief executive of The Hastings Center, a nonprofit research institute on bioethics in Garrison, New York. Murray was formerly director of the Center for ...

Polluted, noisy and crowded urban environments can impair physical performance. Living in modern cities may not be good for human health, according to evolutionary scientists from Loughborough ...

Researchers have uncovered how successful chromosome segregation during sexual reproduction is achieved in plants. The discovery, by scientists led by the University of Leicester, could be beneficial ...

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the first gene-edited babies. Using Crispr, he tweaked the genes of three human embryos in an attempt to ...

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are infertile or gay couples have babies with their own genes but would also raise ...