If you've ever had a spiny leaf insect as a pet, or you're considering getting one, hopefully someone has warned you about this: if you put one in your enclosure, you might come back some time later ...

Sexual reproduction may have emerged as a "supercharged repair mechanism" to protect cells from DNA damage caused by another eukaryotic novelty—the mitochondrion, Haag explained, but there are other ...

THERE’S no way sex could ever be considered a good solution for reproduction among organisms like us- eukaryotes with complex information contained within membraned cells. After all, the exponential ...

As commercial spaceflight edges closer to reality, astronauts spend more time orbiting Earth, and as we look to one day settle on Mars, questions about sex and reproductive health in space need to be ...

The excitement around space exploration is back in full force. With NASA’s Artemis missions laying the groundwork for a sustained human presence on the Moon, and films like Project Hail Mary capturing ...

Humans don’t have a defined mating season like deer or wolves. Here’s how evolution rewired our reproduction by blending biology, culture and social life into year-round intimacy. Unlike the rut of ...

Over the past decade, I have made some bold predictions about the future of sex. One that’s been easy is that people will still be having sex for years to come, but for different reasons: they simply ...

Sex ratio dynamics refer to the evolutionary and ecological processes by which organisms bias the proportion of male and female offspring. At the heart of this field lie theoretical frameworks such as ...