Big day for some scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine and UC-San Francisco who have managed to succeed in isolating stem cells from human testes. That means, they can differentiate into each of the three main types of tissues of the body.

According to the study, the testes stem cells have different patterns of [...]

Despite broad “dolphin safe” practices, fishing activities have continued to restrict the growth of at least one Pacific Ocean dolphin population, a new report led by a researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has concluded.
Populations of dolphins in the Eastern Pacific were expected to increase in abundance after successful regulations and [...]

In 1953, Stanley L Miller and Harold C. Urey of the University of Chicago conducted an experiment that is now considered to be the classic experiment concerning the origin of life. It simulated conditions (hypothetically) present on the primitive Earth and it proved the occurrence of chemical evolution. It was based on Oparin and Haldane’s [...]

Scientists know that Earth’s magnetic field has reversed direction hundreds of times before, but so far they do not know why.  A recent study on ancient lava flows may give us a better understanding of what happens and why.
First of all, what is the Earth’s magnetic field?
Earth’s magnetic field (and the surface magnetic field) is approximately [...]

We all know that parents should not argue in front of their children in order to provide them with a non-aggressive, non-violent environment. But why is that crucial for the child’s development ? Well, decades of  studies showed that children who grow up in aggressive or violent environments are more likely to become violent [...]