Pain related to sickle cell disease (SCD) increases during menstruation, as do emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations, for many women and girls—according to a new, nationwide study led ...

A new robot could solve one of the biggest challenges facing indoor farmers: manual pollination. Indoor farms, also known as ...

A research team at the IPK Leibniz Institute has developed a method that enables the detailed observation of female ...

Failing to treat the repression of women as the crisis it is all but guarantees that democratic erosion will continue unchecked. More than 30 years ago, I declared at the United Nations’ Fourth World ...

“Trimester zero refers to the three months before conception when egg and sperm quality are being shaped and the body is ...

Pollinators like the blue orchard bee live in a natural symbiosis with farmers, because crops rely on them to reproduce. In return, the pollinators receive flower nectar that gives them energy to fly.

If sex hurts, it’s not something you’re supposed to “push through.” Experts explain dyspareunia and how to treat it.

A successful strawberry harvest begins not with planting, but with patience. Properly acclimating your new runners — the long stems that grow from a mother plant, also called stolons — is the crucial ...

Menstrual cramps are common and often occur before and during the menstrual cycle. Ectopic pregnancies are medical emergencies that can cause severe pain and complications. Endometriosis causes tissue ...

In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK, to buy a pregnancy test. But it wasn’t for Moffett. Her postdoc, ...

I agree with Adam Taor that some of the terminology used for female anatomy, especially reproductive parts, is extremely paternalistic, if not outright misogynistic, and could do with revision(14 June ...

Scientists published a full genetic sequence of the genes that make some white campions male, and hope their work could unlock how the flower got that way. By Veronique Greenwood The vast majority of ...