Humans are far closer to meerkats and beavers for levels of exclusive mating than we are to most of our primate cousins, ...

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

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The person was an older adult with underlying health conditions, officials said. The first human to have ever been infected with the H5N5 strain of bird flu has died, Washington state health officials ...

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 ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance that could expand possibilities for fertility treatment, according to new research. The ...

Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video generators. Her work explores how new AI technology is infiltrating our lives, shaping the content ...