breakthroughs
Sperm Grown In a Test Tube
Adrian Chen · 03/24/11 01:03PMScientists have been trying to grow sperm in a test tube for over 100 years, and now they've done it. Researchers in Japan "have made fertile mammalian sperm in a culture dish," reports Nature. The scientists took fragments of mouse testes and coaxed sperm to grow from them in a petri dish; then they injected the sperm into eggs, put the fertilized eggs into mice, and real, live babies came out.
Science Has Found the Best Way to Cure Your Hangover
Max Read · 01/18/11 07:40AMThe Associated Press Change Styleguide, Stop Sounding Like Old Man
Ravi Somaiya · 04/16/10 01:27PMMichael Ian Black Will 'Play Ball,' For a Klondike Bar
Hamilton Nolan · 07/13/09 02:35PMTentative Settlement Reached in Times vs. Globe Deathmatch
The Cajun Boy · 06/24/09 02:59AMFox & Friends Finally Have an Informed Debate
Richard Lawson · 06/23/09 10:09AMOh, phew! The hole-in-the-head gang at Fox & Friends finally had a lucid and credible debate about an important topic. Abortion? No. Iran? Nah. The earth-shattering divorce of Jon & Kate Gosselin? Why yes, of course.