This has been quite the wild year in human evolution stories. Our relatives, living and extinct, got a lot of attention—from ...

The tragic news of the loss of the world's last remaining northern white rhino begs the question: Can it be brought back?

A coalition of 19 states and the District of Columbia on Tuesday sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, its ...

Scientists have developed an experimental way to study how human embryos implant in a uterus, which may provide new insights into why miscarriages occur and how they can be prevented.

A Superior Court judge has ruled that a Connecticut family has proven “by a preponderance of the evidence” that Yale New ...

Something about a warm, flickering campfire draws in modern humans. Where did that uniquely human impulse come from? How did our ancestors learn to make fire? How long have they been making it?

Listen to the audio edition here: Collingswood resident Caitlin Corkery is a self-described “birth nerd.” She’d grown up in the ’90s and 2000s, when women’s bodies were relentlessly shamed by tabloids ...

Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Cambridge in England analyzed the proportion of full ...

The introduction of a stricter approval process for prescribing an anti-seizure drug that can cause birth defects when taken during pregnancy has been effective at reducing the number of prescriptions ...

Human labor can be grueling, stretching for multiple hours and occasionally over days. However, in much of the animal world, birth has to be fast in order for a species to survive. In their world, a ...

March of Dimes issued their annual report on US rates of preterm birth on November 17. The findings are a gut punch. Rates worsened between 2023 and 2024 in 21 states. Preterm birth rates among babies ...