The UK is seen as a global leader in regulating reproductive technologies. Some worry that onerous paperwork is causing embryos to be wasted.

Everyone wants to meet (and snuggle!) the new baby. How can parents let loved ones know precautions need to be taken so Baby doesn’t get sick?

A thrifty study uncovers a wealth of data about one of the world’s largest and most elusive species.

The most active volcano in Hawaii has seen the number of earthquakes at its summit double over the past week, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

The Niitsitapi, or Blackfoot Indians, imagined that giant puffballs were created by fallen stars. They painted the fruit bodies of these globose fungi as white circles arising from a dark band along the bottom edge of tipi covers to symbolize the birth of life. In our era of global environmental damage, a strain of this indigenous reverence for fungi has been adopted as a symbol of hope.

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Phages—tiny entities that infect bacteria—were discovered over 100 years ago but were largely abandoned as therapies. Now they’re making a comeback.

The fastest animals are neither the largest, nor the smallest, but rather intermediately sized, though the mechanism for this is unknown. This study built predictive musculoskeletal simulations, scaled in mass from the size of a mouse to an elephant to understand the underlying mechanisms.

Nuclear scattering data suggest the possible observation of a predicted but never-observed nuclear vibration.