From desert soils to date palms, Prof. Ilya Gelfand tracks the gases shaping our climate, and asks why no one was looking ...

A far-reaching education bill that requires students to learn about “human embryological and fetal development,” mandates ...

U.S. forests have stored more carbon in the past two decades than at any time in the last century, an increase attributable ...

Stem cells are precursors of a variety of different cells: They can turn into anything from blood to bone to muscle. Human blood stem cells, known as hematopoietic stem cells, are the forerunners of ...

In a proof-of-concept experiment, scientists demonstrated that you can create and fertilize human eggs in the lab using sperm, genes from skin cells, and the "shells" of existing egg cells. When you ...

The method could one day become a treatment for infertility A decade of further research needed, scientists say The process overcomes an obstacle that stymied previous attempts Significant safety ...

Catherine Powell, an adjunct senior fellow for women and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, is the former White House National Security Council human rights director. Desirée Cormier ...

Every four-and-a-half years, on a revolving basis, each of the 193 member countries of the United Nations submits a report to the U.N. Human Rights Council on its domestic human rights record under ...

PHOENIX — Half of the water from the 91st Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant is sent to the human-made wetlands known as Tres Rios before it can be reintroduced into the environment. Tres Rios is a ...

A human embryo embeds itself into a fake uterus created by researchers. Screenshot from an Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia video Sixty percent of miscarriages are caused by the failure of an ...