8 November 2022
The United Nations has declared that the world's population will pass 8 billion people on 15 November. Our growing numbers have a variety of implications, from health to the environment
10 September 2019
Thirty four years after The Handmaid’s Tale and a hit TV show later, Margaret Atwood’s intriguing sequel, The Testaments, highlights the power of narrative
21 August 2019
A Chinese government policy allowing all couples to have two children led to an additional 5.4 million births in the first 18 months after it took effect
18 March 2019
Decades of data from Norway show that girls with a twin brother are less likely to finish school or university, which may be due to testosterone exposure in the womb
14 February 2019
Experiments in fish suggest offspring from older sperm may be healthier – a finding that could change the ways IVF clinics select sperm
31 October 2018
It was still 10 years before IVF would be used successfully in humans – and that wasn’t on our radar when we reported on the first lab conceptions using mice
20 June 2018
Minimising red meat consumption seems to protect against endometriosis, according to a study of more than 80,000 women who were followed for two decades
13 March 2018
Thousands of frozen eggs and embryos may have been damaged after temperatures rose in two malfunctioning tanks at fertility clinics in California and Ohio
7 December 2017
An analysis of thousands of women has found that the older your mother was when you were born, the more likely you are to be childless – but we don’t know why
15 November 2017
The steep decline in sperm counts is an opportunity to finally dispel the idea that fertility is primarily a women’s issue
