Scientists in Britain have been given the go-ahead to edit the genes of human embryos for research, using a technique that some say could eventually be used to create "designer babies". British ...
When Canada and north-western US roasted in temperatures approaching 50 degrees in late June, climate scientists from seven nations jumped on the case and within days were able to declare such extreme ...
Past Center surveys have found that Americans with higher levels of formal education are more likely to say human activity is ...
Research on the human dimensions of global change concerns human activities that alter the Earth's environment, the driving forces of those activities, the consequences of environmental change for ...
Human societies are already experiencing wide-ranging consequences of a warming planet. Rising average temperatures, more frequent and intense heatwaves, shifting precipitation patterns and ...
As we continue to change the planet, scientists are worried we might also be altering the evolutionary trajectories of the species that live alongside us, perhaps even including some irreversible ...
Scientists in Britain have been give approval to edit the genes of human embryos for research, using a technique some say could eventually help create "designer babies". Less than a year after Chinese ...
"The only thing that separates us from the animals is our ability to accessorise," drawls Olympia Dukakis in the 1989 movie Steel Magnolias. The coiffed southern dame may well have been onto something ...