The future of test tube babies is one step closer to being motherless
We're moving away from the mother-father paradigm. Babies of the future may not come from egg cells at all.
How To Make A Baby Without An Egg
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'Future First': This Is Your Brain On VR
Virtual reality is paving the way for new technological therapeutics
Popular Science and XPRIZE are teaming up to explore and explain technologies that make us say "The Future Is Now" in a video series called Future First.
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Why We Always Get Sick While Traveling – And How To Prevent It
Travel, sleep loss, and stress can all wreak havoc on our immune systems
The reason for the wave of sickness that has hit Hillary Clinton and her staff could be plain bad luck -- but it’s also not out of the question that lots of traveling…
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Many Of The Eye’s Color-Sensing Cells Code For…Whiteness
When individual cone cells are activated, only some signal color
Scientists have for the first time pinpointed individual color-sensing cells in the eyes of living people,and turned them on.
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California Bans Captivity, Breeding Of Orcas
Goes into effect in 2017
California Governor Jerry Brown just signed a law forbidding the breeding or captivity of orcas, also known as killer whales, in California.
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This Is One Of The Best Views Of Our Entire Galaxy Ever Made
You can see your house from here
Take it all in: This is the first all-sky survey ever, with more than a billion stars and celestial objects contained in a single image from European Space Agency's Gaia…
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Dog-Sized Dinosaur Had Ideal Camouflage For Forests
In Dead Color
We usually think of dinosaurs as standing out, but about 100 million years ago, Psittacosaurus, a dog-sized cousin of Triceratops with a parrot-like beak was blending…
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Airports Turn To Security Contractors To Combat Long Lines
But are they really just the TSA with bigger lapels?
Debate has roiled over whether airports should take advantage of the TSA's Screening Partnership Program (SPP), in which private security contractors are brought in to…
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Scientists Force Snails To Exercise To See If It Affects Their Decision-Making Skills
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Skynet Anti-Drone Rifle Can Jam Signals In The Air
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Will Growing Urban Noise Make Bats Worse At Hunting Down Food?
Bats can adapt by switching senses, but that's not good enough
In environments that are noisy, bats that typically listen for sound cues to target prey can shift their strategy and use echolocation instead, according to a new study…
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Ocean Photographers Take Over White House Instagram
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Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Recalled By Consumer Product Safety Commission
Danger of explosions and fire from battery
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission has officially issued a recall for all Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones sold before today.
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Cards Against Humanity scholarship seeks to send women in STEM to college
Applications are open for their Science Ambassador Scholarship
Cards Against Humanity Re-Opens Applications for Full Ride Scholarship…
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The First Tanks Went To War 100 Years Ago Today
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The DNA Inside Dung Beetles' Guts Could Help To Identify Other Animals
Yet another reminder of how useful poop can be
To find rare animals, just look at the creatures that eat their poop…
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People Who Claim They're Fine With Little Sleep May Be Fooling Themselves
Sleep's a mystery, but this study reveals worrisome new patterns
Attention everyone who's smugly proclaimed that they "just don't need a full night's sleep."…
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How We Swagger Speaks Volumes About Our Personalities
Walk this way, if you're feeling aggressive
You can tell by the way I use my walk, I'm aggressive and overly exaggerate my gait.
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Pigeons Know When They're Getting Bad Leadership Advice
Can we learn something from bird democracies?
A new study published in the Royal Society journal Biology Letters shows potential for a coup in the coop when the head pigeon flies astray…
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Driverless Ubers, Disappearing Stars, And More
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