Casual acceptance of no-fault divorce many years ago not only altered the ecology of marriage but also of anthropology itself ...

S. Korea's People Power Party has shown little sign of regaining support despite an apology and a reform package tied to the ...

The Taipei Women’s Rescue Foundation on Monday argued against the legalization of surrogacy, saying that the procedure “treats women’s wombs as tools.” The foundation on social media said that “wombs ...

Beneath an eight-lane expressway, Nigerian men stand waist-deep in the Lagos Lagoon, lowering buckets into murky water. Each load brings up sand, reshaping the coastline of Africa’s largest city and ...

Repeated exercise, or wasting, can change the way key genes work.

Nearly 6 in 10 S. Koreans believe their society is corrupt, with political parties and the legislature viewed as the most ...

There are hundreds of cell types in the human body, each with a specific role spelled out in their DNA. In theory, all it ...

Paleoanthropologists have announced the world's most complete skeleton of Homo habilis, a human ancestor that lived more than ...

UCSF scientists engineered old fibroblast cells to turn their genes on and off in the same way as young fibroblasts. The old ...

This sexually transmitted infection is almost entirely preventable. Here's what experts say you really need to know to ...

Genes that protect the body against infection during youth can do harm in old age, according to a study 1 in mice. The ...

For more than three decades, Ötzi the Iceman has been a kind of time capsule for researchers—an Alpine body preserved so well that it keeps producing scientific “firsts.” Now, a new analysis suggests ...