Economic panic about the birthrate is drowning out the voices of those who matter most in this debateThe birthrate is declining across the west. It has been doing so for some time, but the recent drop appears to have been exacerbated by the pandemic. I…
Parthenogenesis Discovered in California Condors
Parthenogenesis Discovered in California Condors “two of the California condor females produced young without a male partner, a phenomenon called parthenogenesis.
The asexually produced offspring were especially surprising to scientists because both…
The great sperm heist: ‘They were playing with people’s lives’
Paul was in his 80s when someone called to say she was his daughter, conceived in a fertility clinic with his sperm. The only problem? He’d never donated anyFor 40 years, Catherine Simpson thought she knew who she was: a nurse, a mother of three, a dau…