The climate is warming, and much of the increase is due to greenhouse gases, the most prevalent gas being carbon dioxide. Methods for removing existing carbon from the atmosphere are in the works, and ...

One round of IVF costs up to $40,000. For millions of Californians, that barrier to parenthood just disappeared thanks to a ...

Upon fertilization, two highly specialized meiotic germ cells, the sperm and egg, need to be transformed into a totipotent mitotic embryo. Sperm bind to the zona pellucida of the egg by an unknown ...

For 50 years, scientists in Großbeeren have studied how different fertilization strategies affect vegetable and soil quality.

In an underwater nursery just off the Dominican Republic coast, tiny corals born in a laboratory are slowly growing under the ...

Soils are a major carbon reservoir containing more carbon than the atmosphere and terrestrial vegetation. The anthropogenic impacts on soil can turn it into either a net sink or a net source of ...

In a common metaphor used to describe human fertilization, sperm cells are competitors racing to penetrate a passive egg. But as critics have noted, the description is also a “fairy tale” rooted in ...

1) My husband and I haven't been able to achieve pregnancy naturally, after many visits to the doctor and performing many tests, he has advised us to perform in-vitro fertilization (IVF). The doctor ...

Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, is expected to sign the legislation that's modeled after Texas' controversial anti-abortion law.