Anthropologist Christopher Bae has recently suggested we add two new species of ancient human to our family tree. The plans break the conventions for how species should be named – but Bae argues the r ...

A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the ...

The finding may allow archaeologists to determine whether a woman was pregnant or had recently given birth at the time of her death.

Humans have long experimented with nature, bending evolution to serve aesthetics, science, and curiosity. Some animals have ...