As talk of Mars colonisation and permanent lunar bases accelerates, scientists are issuing a stark warning: human ...

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As space tourism gets cheaper and missions keep getting longer, scientists are now raising a question that used to be limited ...

Australian ground frogs take the standard weirdness of frog reproduction and development to the next level...and then to the ...

Researchers mapped early brain growth from mid-pregnancy to the first month after birth and found signs that sex-linked differences emerge surprisingly early.

A new study has uncovered a hidden step that helps the deadliest malaria parasite survive and multiply inside the human body. Researchers studying Plasmodium falciparum found that the parasite relies ...

Researchers studying the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum have discovered a previously unknown stage in its life cycle ...

Radiation and microgravity are two of the greatest hazards to astronauts’ reproductive health. “Space radiation can damage ...

Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) have become an integral component of infertility care worldwide. Alongside their widespread clinical use, growing ...

A duplicated gene evolved into a switch that determines sex in frogs, revealing how evolution can safely reshape critical ...

What came first — the plant or the seed? Columnist Carol Barany explores how plants made the leap from water to land, why ...