The world’s life-forms reproduce sexually in a bewildering variety of ways, even though scientists still aren’t sure why they ...

Meiosis is a key feature of eukaryotic sexual reproduction. Diploid parental cells replicate their DNA once and then undergo two rounds of chromosome segregation to produce haploid daughter cells.

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. As you may recall from one of our recent news roundup episodes, the condition long known as polycystic ovary syndrome, or ...

The process can be complex, but the results are incredibly satisfying—and delicious.

Starting one's sex life and having children at a young age can run in the family. But can pregnancy have beneficial health ...

In this case, the gene encoding T7 RNA polymerase was added to the SpudCell genome, and it was made by those artificial cells ...

Frogs that hatch during the cooler months of December through April are exposed to fewer infected frogs, but those they do ...

A British man expresses his frustration after discovering his budget Ryanair flight did not include WiFi, comparing the cost of a pint abroad to the flight price. I didn't like what I saw from Jude ...

This story appears in the October 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Moon jellies, which are found in shallow bays around the world, look like small, not entirely friendly ghosts. They have ...

The rapid identification of Candida species isolates in clinical laboratories is relevant insofar as the high incidence of candidiasis increases proportionally to the growth in the number of patients ...