ABOUT 8 million children each year are born with birth defects that are genetic in origin, and 70 per cent of them could be prevented or mitigated, a new study...
It is 1828, a year that encompassed the death of Shaka, the Zulu king, the passage in the United States of the Tariff of Abominations, and the battle of Las...
Media hype about "designer babies" and "saviour siblings" gave the public a distorted view of reproductive and genetic technologies, the chairwoman of the...
In 55 BC, the Roman leader Pompey staged a combat between humans and elephants. Surrounded in the arena, the animals perceived that they had no hope of escape....
The brains and spinal cords of male mice contain more of the protective, fatty substance called myelin, which insulates nerve cells, than their female...
Dads-to-be pile on the pounds during their partners' pregnancy too – at least in some monkey species, new research suggests. The findings may illuminate the...
Women with asthma who are carrying a female fetus are more likely to experience worse asthma symptoms than asthmatic women carrying a male fetus, researchers...
Earlier this month, Reason's science correspondent Ronald Bailey squared off against Seed correspondent Chris Mooney, author of The Republican War on Science,...
WASHINGTON (AFP) - A change in the sexual behavior of young people in Zimbabwe probably caused a sharp decline in HIV virus infections in the south African...
Scientists are using brain imaging and other tools as new kinds of lie detectors. But trickier even than finding the source of deception might be navigating a...
At this rate, it seems that neuroscientists will soon pinpoint the regions in the brain where mediocre poetry is generated, where high school grudges are...
Genetic and Genomic Analysis of a Fat Mass Trait with Complex Inheritance Reveals Marked Sex Specificity Susanna Wang, Nadir Yehya, Eric E. Schadt, Hui Wang,...
All Things Considered, February 5, 2006 · President Bush says that the United States needs to focus on math and science education. We look at how some...
Those amazing studies linking specific genes to obesity, long life and just about everything else may be wrong. It was big news when Harvard Medical School...
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 3 — Faith's domain is evident everywhere at the Utah Legislature, where about 90 percent of the elected officials are members of the...
Cave Drawings Reportedly 25,000 Years Old Cave Drawings Reportedly Older Than Those in Famed Caves of Lascaux Discovered in Western France PARIS Feb 5, 2006...
An international team of scientists says it has found a "lost world" in the Indonesian jungle that is home to dozens of new animal and plant species. ...
The tub full of leeches sat on a table in Mark Siddall's office at the American Museum of Natural History. The leeches, each an inch long and covered in orange...
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