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It is time for " Hey, Science ," our splendidly scientific weekly feature in which we have your most provocative scientific questions answered by real live scientists (or related experts). No question is too intelligent for our legion of learned
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Both of us have two children from our previous relationship and at the time both of our elder daughters were expecting their first babies. after a few discussions about how it would feel wrong that if we were to have a child together, it would be
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I know my husband would be responsible when it comes to contraception. However, I also know he can be pretty forgetful, so I don't think he'd remember to take the pill at the same time every single day. Lillian, 30 Let's face it: I can't trust my
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The scientists were able to cut off the fuel supply to the ''motor'' that drives human sperm, so they are left twitching and not swimming. Professor Moira O'Bryan, of Monash University's School of Biomedical Sciences, led the research with scientists
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N atural ways to avoid pregnancy are more difficult to use and far less reliable than other forms of contraception. For example, you can figure out the days on which you are ovulating and have a high chance of becoming pregnant by keeping a calendar
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Contraceptive implants are implanted inside a woman's arm but many have gone missing. Photograph: Scott Camazine/Alamy If only condoms weren't such a bore. Whether you want childless sex with a partner, or free-for-all romps in rooms covered in bin
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Men may start painstakingly taking a pill at the same time every day. Scientists tested the male contraceptive pill on mice, and it made them temporarily infertile. Good news for baby-fearing couples (and single people!) everywhere: Science is
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A Boston laboratory working to develop anti-cancer drugs has accidently discovered a hormone-free application of one of their drugs that could be used as a male birth control drug, according to a report in the Boston Globe. The drug&
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Taken daily or weekly, the pill would allow couples to share the burden of family planning. The study shows that the small molecule makes male mice reversibly infertile without putting a damper on their sex drive. "Our findings demonstrate that, when
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A Houston-Boston research partnership has found the ingredients for a male birth control pill, a breakthrough approach that promises the first reversible contraceptive for men since the condom centuries ago. In a paper published Thursday, the team
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