Emma Waters, pregnant with her third child, is crafting policy to encourage early parenthood. Some think she is pushing an ...

Queen Margaret University has awarded an honorary doctorate to leading human rights activist Fatou Baldeh MBE.

A major transition in evolution is the shift from asexual to sexual reproduction in early organisms. But why would a yeast ...

Successful reproduction presents a fundamental evolutionary paradox: the immune system must tolerate genetically foreign sperm and embryos while maintaining ...

Carolina Granthon, who worked at the World Center for Birds of Prey, wanted to know what made a good condor egg.

Female mammals have long thought to be born with all the eggs they would ever have, but new research is challenging that consensus ...

For months, he and his team had watched the snake using a transmitter and a trail camera. “I’m just kind of following this ...

The human-made cells show many hallmarks of life, but they can't make all their necessary internal structures or divide for ...

Female fertility depends on the successful growth and maturation of eggs (oocytes) within ovarian follicles. Within these ...

But as well as starring returning cast members Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest and fresh faces Maisie Williams and Joey ...

A new study of wild bats reveals that an animal's immune system is shaped by more than its need to fight infections. Researchers from the University of Maryland have found that sex, age and ...

Rather than shying away from technology, female rangers across the continent are combining it with local knowledge to help both wildlife and communities thrive. Holly Budge meets five women who are wo ...