Negotiators reported progress Thursday at the UN climate conference, setting the stage for agreements on a support fund for poorer nations and other steps easing global warming's impact. But it appeared the complex talks might run overtime into the weekend.
Most exercise appears to have little relationship to either the quality or quantity of sperm, but men who bike at least five hours a week have fewer and less active sperm than men who didn't exercise, a study said.
US life expectancy dropped slightly in 2008 after mostly increasing over the years, according to a new report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has endorsed a rapid new tuberculosis (TB) test which the UN agency said could revolutionize care and control of the disease, UN spokesman Martin Nesirky told reporters here Wednesday.
Lately, a handful of new discoveries make it seem more likely that we are not alone _ that there is life somewhere else in the universe.
A private company launched a spacecraft into orbit Wednesday in a bold demonstration test for NASA that could lead to the first commercial space station supply run next year and eventual astronaut rides.
A Japanese probe to Venus failed to reach orbit Wednesday and was captured by the sun's gravitational pull in a setback to Japan's shoestring space program, which will have to wait another six years to try again.
New Zealand's Auckland University researchers have found that overweight fathers are more likely to have undersized babies, New Zealand media reported on Wednesday.
Using the fastest supercomputer in the world, experts at the China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research (IWHR) can help ensure the hydroelectric dam is stronger and safer for the millions who live along Jinsha River.
Boys today may be on a faster track to puberty than their fathers' generation, reaching the milestone an average of a year earlier, according to a study conducted in Bulgaria.
Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science. Every scientific advance has been ushered in by a new audacity of imagination. Let's take a look at what surprises and exciting discoveries scientists were able to offer us in the year 2010.
Men tend to behave better when they're married - both because marriage likely helps improve their behaviour, and nicer men are more likely to be married in the first place, according to a US study.
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