The prospect of a non-invasive check of ovarian reserve is a little bit nearer following outcomes from a examine exhibiting that measurement of a fertility hormone may be precisely taken from a pattern of human hair.

Because the world displays on the historic results of the slave commerce, with statues being dethroned, most individuals don’t know that tens of thousands and thousands are being exploited and stored in bondage in the present day. ...

The livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of individuals dwelling alongside the world's greatest river methods are beneath menace by a variety of stressors attributable to the every day financial, societal and political exercise of people -- along with the long-term results of local weather change, researchers report.

US Vice President Mike Pence has unleashed a wave of shock and indignation on Twitter after saying “all lives matter” regardless of being repeatedly pressed to utter “black lives matter.” Each life is vital, he argued. ...

If we act rapidly and decisively, there's a slim window through which we will nonetheless preserve roughly half of Earth's land in a comparatively intact state, a brand new examine suggests.

Scientists described how they drew inspiration from cephalopod pores and skin to endow mammalian cells with tunable transparency and light-scattering traits.

A White Home adviser has triggered a wave of memes and mockery on-line after referring to US labor drive as “human capital inventory,” drawing numerous comparisons to the dystopian sci-fi flick Soylent Inexperienced (spoiler: it’s individuals). ...

A report by the United Nations Improvement Program (UNDP) says that the coronavirus pandemic is “unleashing a human improvement disaster,” with declines in basic areas of dwelling requirements anticipated to be felt worldwide. ...

New analysis reaffirms that trendy sea-level rise is linked to human actions and to not modifications in Earth's orbit. Surprisingly, the Earth had almost ice-free situations with carbon dioxide ranges not a lot greater than immediately and had glacial durations in occasions beforehand believed to be ice-free over the past ...

The worldwide loss of life toll within the Covid-19 pandemic has crossed 300,000, hitting one other darkish milestone because the United Nations voiced considerations that lockdown measures are being lifted too shortly, warning of a “second wave” of the virus. ...