Sleep is essential, yet humans have evolved to need so little of it. When evolutionary anthropologist David Samson delved ...

Why do so many men only think about fertility when there is a problem? Perhaps the answer lies in our societal scripts.

Clinical data reveals male factors contribute to half of all infertility cases, shifting the focus toward earlier ...

Base editing, the process used to make the changes, only nicks one strand of DNA, avoiding the major DNA errors that made ...

Learn more about menarche, a mark on an ancient femur bone, and how it can help us understand the reproductive beginnings of ancient women.

At first glance, bat sea stars, the nubbly, orange, many-footed creatures often found on the seafloor, seem about as far from humans as one can get. Appearances can be deceiving, however. Scientists ...

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible. Researchers found that these DNA regions, which act like volume controls for genes ...

The airline also has an AI tool to help passengers catch connecting flights Christopher Edwards is a writer on the Lifestyle team at PEOPLE. He has been working at PEOPLE since 2026. His work has ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

Ribosomal RNA (rRNA), made from many copies of ribosomal DNA (rDNA), is the core component that powers ribosomes—protein-building machines in our body. It helps build proteins by linking amino acids ...

Bisphenol S (BPS) is a chemical analogue of Bisphenol A (BPA) used in the production of hard plastics, textiles, and thermal papers. As the use of BPA has declined, BPS human exposure has increased ...

When people talk about living on the Moon or Mars, the conversation usually jumps to air, water, food, and radiation. But there’s another question sitting in the background: if humans ever truly ...