Archaeologists have found a treasure trove of 3,000 gold and precious items in Kazakhstan in a burial mound in the remote Tarbagatai mountains. It’s believed the “priceless” stash that belonged to the Saka people and could date to eight centuries before the birth of Christ. This treasure may yield important insights into the Saka. They were nomadic people who spoke an Iranian language and were a sub-group of the Scythians, […]

Jessi Hempel’s brother Evan was born a woman. He came out as transgender 16 years ago but never stopped wanting to have a baby. This spring he gave birth to his first child. Evan’s pregnancy is proof that we live in amazing times. When Evan first visited an LGBT health centre in Boston, US, Jessi wrote for TIME, it was the first time his doctor had seen a prospective birth […]

LONDON: In a world’s first, a woman has successfully given birth to a baby from a transplanted womb. The donated womb came from the woman’s own mother, making it the first baby in the world born to a woman using the same womb from which she was herself born. The 36-year-old Swedish woman delivered a healthy baby boy weighing 1775g in September, 2014. Scientists announced the breakthrough in the British […]