A longstanding mystery in mosquito biology has been solved, opening a potential new path for controlling mosquitoes and the ...

Sperm may lose their ability to navigate in microgravity, raising new questions about whether human reproduction is possible ...

Ducks with corkscrew penises, fish changing sex – what do we really know about sex and reproduction on Earth? Less than we ...

Sexual reproduction is the production of a new organism from two parents by making use of their sex cells or gametes. In this process male gametes fuses with a female gamete to form a new cell called ...

Editor’s Note: Aarathi Prasad is a London-based biologist and science writer and the author of “Like a Virgin: How Science is Redesigning the Rules of Sex”. In an article in the UK’s “traditional ...