For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Virgin births' have been widely documented in animals like snakes and bees. However, this is the first evidence of parthenogenesis in a crocodile. It's not clear why some animals make the switch ...

An event with no precedent. It must strike everybody who carefully reads the Scripture record concerning the virgin birth how simple and sober it is. Of those many theories woven around it later ...

Virgin births do not happen naturally in the type of fruit flies involved in the research, said study coauthor Alexis Sperling, a developmental biologist at the UK’s University of Cambridge.

Scientists have pinpointed a genetic cause for virgin birth for the first time, and once switched on the ability is passed down through generations of females. Scientists have pinpointed a genetic ...

Babies born to women without men may have come a step closer after fruit flies were made to have virgin births by scientists. The first recorded case of a virgin birth in a crocodile earlier this ...

We shouldn’t forget to ask what it means. For the last 100 years, conversation around the Virgin Birth has centered on whether it actually happened. Could Mary really have had a child without a ...

But scientists tinkering with its genes found the ones that can induce parthenogenesis, or virgin birth. For the first time, scientists tinkering with fruit fly genes have succeeded in inducing ...

The virgin birth may seem strange to a modern audience – and not just because it runs counter to the science of reproduction. Even in the Bible itself, the idea is rarely mentioned. As a scholar ...

It raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus, even pointing to ancient evidence that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier, possibly by rape. But before I ask you about that ...

Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...