New genetic tests promise parents a 'better' baby by predicting traits and disease risks in IVF embryos. However, these ...

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Have you ever seen a hibiscus flower? Although its petals have a range of colors, what makes the trumpet-shaped flower more ...

After the advent of gene-editing technology, if it can lead to disease treatment, the question naturally moves to the next ...

Alas, there are no homunculi crammed inside the smallest human cells. Yet recent research in fertility and urology suggests Hartsoeker’s image could work metaphorically: Sperm can be a proxy for the ...

For 50 years, scientists at the San Diego Zoo have been collecting and storing cells from rare and endangered species in its Frozen Zoo with an eye to the future. The future is here. The San Diego Zoo ...

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Greenland sharks can live for hundreds of years, drifting through some of the coldest and darkest waters on Earth. Once dismissed as slow, clumsy and nearly blind, these deep-sea giants are now ...

Sempra, the California utility, is promoting one of the major new terminals for liquefied natural gas on the shore of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

At SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park, scientists from across the globe are using advanced X-rays to find a long-lost map of the galaxy by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus.

From a mafia consigliere to an alcoholic country singer to multiple military men, Robert Duvall disappeared into countless beloved movie roles.

A domestic research team has developed a technology to mass-produce ‘perovskite,’ a core material for next-generation displays capable of reproducing 100% of the natural colors visible to the human ...