Women in many times and places have felt pressure to bear children. But the idea of the “biological clock” is a particularly malevolent invention aimed to pressure women to have a child. In her ...

Starting a family wasn’t a priority for Lindsay Albanese, a former celebrity fashion stylist turned entrepreneur and content creator who describes herself as “career-driven out of the gate.” She met ...

How old are you really? Counting birthdays may be a common tally, but your “age” isn’t determined by time alone. New research increasingly shows the importance of considering chronological age as ...

The news that autism and schizophrenia may be related to paternal age has brought mixed feeling to the legions of women who have long been warned about the dangers of trying to have children too late.

Clocks coming out of a large clock as a 3D illustration. We age along two clocks: a chronological clock and a biological clock. The former is just a measure of how many birthdays you have celebrated — ...

Organisms rely on a biological clock known as the ‘circadian’ clock to regulate their activity according to the time of day. A central clock, constituted by a group of brain cells — the ...