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More than one-sixth of adults around the world experience infertility in their lifetime. There is a high unmet need not only ...

Offshore Hurricane Erin was downgraded to a Category 3 storm early Sunday, as rain lashed Caribbean islands and weather ...

In San Francisco Bay, salt ponds created more than a century ago are reverting to marshland. Along the New York and New ...

Progress toward a legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution stalled and went into reverse this week. The United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee meeting in Geneva, Switzerland ...

Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now, new ...

The report highlights how more than 16,000 chemicals are used in plastic, many of which are not disclosed by the companies ...

A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing ...

Big tech company hype sells generative artificial intelligence (AI) as intelligent, creative, desirable, inevitable, and ...

A new study maps the planetary boundary of "functional biosphere integrity" in spatial detail and over centuries. It finds ...

Social norms and behavioral rules, even when outdated, are often resistant to change, but a paper by two University at ...

Researchers at Rice University and collaborating institutions have discovered direct evidence of active flat electronic bands ...