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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists have just induced the first virgin birth. A recent paper detailed how researchers were able to find a genetic trigger in fruit flies for virgin birth, also known as parthenogenesis.

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 ...

The Virgin Birth was and is a vitally important part of Christmas. It was the fulfillment of a Messianic prophecy in Isaiah 7. "Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign: The virgin will ...

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 ...