As commercial spaceflight draws ever closer and time spent in space continues to extend, the question of reproductive health ...

Until the 1930s physicians blithely told women that they conceived during menstruation and could avoid pregnancy by restricting coitus to other days. This, of course, conflicts directly with ...

Megan Molteni reports on discoveries from the frontiers of genomic medicine, neuroscience, and reproductive tech. She joined STAT in 2021 after covering health and science at WIRED. You can reach ...

Conception close to mid-cycle is generally accepted as typical for monkeys and apes as well as humans. But copulation outside the fertile window is widely touted as uniquely human, despite decades of ...