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Looking around the ever-more-crowded globe, you might conclude that human sperm counts are just fine, thank you very much. Hitting the 7 billion mark as a species can lead to such conclusions. Yet that inference would counter what some involved in the field of endocrine-disruption research have long asserted: that sperm counts have, in fact, been dropping, and a Children of Men scenario of creakingly empty playground swings and absent children’s voices menaces the future of our species

SOFIA, July 11 (Reuters) - About 350 people were evacuatedfrom a town in central Bulgaria on Monday when toxic fumes [More]

[Sound clip] That's the future sound filling city streets.

By Chloe McIvor of Nature magazine A global effort has finally cracked the complex genome of the potato, which is published today in Nature.

The most important sign language study done with an ape was surely the first one back in the 1960s, with Washoe, for it established that chimpanzees can use American Sign Language (ASL).

I can't even recall a time that I wasn't cognisant of the fact that I lived in a country that actively pioneered space exploration. I remember sitting on wicker hassock in my Dad's study, as a child and asking lots of questions. Dad would light his pipe, lean back in his big red chair, blow circular smoke rings and try his best to answer them.

(Recasts with EPA results, five treated at hospitals sincespill) [More]

By Laura Zuckerman BILLINGS, Mont., July 9 (Reuters) - ExxonMobil on Saturday submitted a draft clean-up plan of its Yellowstone River oil spill to the U.S. [More]

It's often said that these are exciting times to be a computational biologist, and indeed they are. But beyond the flashy, gee-whiz aspects of computational biology, I find myself excited for another reason: the tools of in silico biology offer us views of biological systems that we wouldn’t otherwise have. [More]

NAME: Zhou-Feng Chen TITLE: Director, Center for the Study of Itch at the Washington University School of Medicine [More]

There in the mud, just waiting to be scooped up, is a natural resource deposit potentially worth billions and billions of dollars.

One of the most anticipated shuttle launches of all time took place July 8 when Atlantis lifted off at 11:29 A.M.

Polar bears' "mitochondrial Eve," the female from whom all of today's polar bears are descended, was not a polar bear at all. [More]

Cameras were once big and bulky.

The likelihood that a baby born in the U.S. will die within its first year is less than a third of what it was 50 years ago