It's a hot, dry summer afternoon, and the skies offer no relief for a field of soybeans. But within those green leaves, these plants are quietly fighting back. Researchers at the University of ...

Birds and lions have males and females. But what about snails that walk around carrying shells, or earthworms that live in ...

Sperm capacitation represents the final maturation phase that mammalian spermatozoa undergo after ejaculation, during which they acquire the capacity to fertilise an oocyte. This multifaceted process ...

Early pregnancy in mammals encompasses a tightly regulated sequence of events beginning with fertilisation of the oocyte, formation and transport of the blastocyst, and its eventual implantation into ...

A study of stick insects that have evolved to reproduce asexually revealed that these insects retain mechanisms used for sexual reproduction. This raises questions about why these mechanisms, which ...