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 ...

Some hope fertilizing tiny, floating plants in the ocean, prompting them to suck carbon dioxide out of the air, could help solve global warming. A new experiment confirms this controversial idea has ...

Although most insurance companies in the United States do not cover in vitro fertilization, a few states mandate such coverage. Of the states in which in vitro fertilization services were available, 3 ...

Australia pioneered assisted coral fertilization. It’s expanding in the Caribbean, with leading projects at the National ...

The Nobel prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded this year to Robert G. Edwards, an English biologist who with a physician colleague, Dr. Patrick Steptoe, developed the in vitro ...

In-vitro fertilization (IVF) is kind of having a moment right now. Back in June, Chrissy Teigen shared that both of her children were conceived through IVF and, in the new season of This Is Us, Kate ...

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 ...