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Your Facebook Profile Picture Can Now Be A Short Video
Social Media

Your Facebook Profile Picture Can Now Be A Short Video

Like 'The Daily Prophet' In 'Harry Potter'

Drones Could Bring Better Medical Care To Rural Patients
Health

Drones Could Bring Better Medical Care To Rural Patients

But regulations would need to catch up first

Mealworms Eating Styrofoam
Animals

Mealworms Can Happily And Safely Eat Styrofoam

Say hello to my wriggly friend

Connor Landgraf on the modern stethoscope
Projects

A smarter stethoscope

With his company Eko Devices, Conor Landgraf is disrupting medical tools.

Screenshot from 'The Martian' official trailer
Science Fiction

Realism Makes ‘The Martian’ One Of The Greatest Sci-Fi Films Of All Time

Almost as good as the book

Tesla Launches Its Electric SUV, The Model X
Technology

Tesla Launches Its Electric SUV, The Model X

Falcon-wing doors and a “bioweapon defense mode”

DIY

White House Hosting Forum on Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing

Announcing Guiding Policies, Launching Toolkit

Edward Snowden Joined Twitter And Immediately Followed The NSA
Technology

Edward Snowden Joined Twitter And Immediately Followed The NSA

Welcomed by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Neil deGrasse Tyson

Google Announces a New Tablet: the Pixel C
Gear

Google Announces a New Tablet: the Pixel C

A 10.2-inch iPad challenger

Here’s What It’s Like To Live With Tickborne Illnesses
Diseases

Here’s What It’s Like To Live With Tickborne Illnesses

A woman diagnosed with Lyme disease and babesiosis talks about navigating treatments and more

Researchers Make Artificial Cells That Can Replicate Themselves
Biology

Researchers Make Artificial Cells That Can Replicate Themselves

To better understand how life might have started on Earth

Viral Lessons From The Heartland
Health

Viral Lessons From The Heartland

Researchers have revealed the Heartland Virus is Widespread in America

Smokestacks
Environment

New XPrize Challenges Innovators To Make Carbon Waste Useful

"Once you capture it, what do you do with it?"

This Is What Traveling To Mars Does To Your Brain
Mars

This Is What Traveling To Mars Does To Your Brain

Isolation study results reveal astronauts would be stressed and bored

Mars Has Flowing Water, New Evidence Indicates
Mars

Mars Has Flowing Water, New Evidence Indicates

It's salty and seasonal, but kind of promising in the search for alien life

Facebook CEO Tells U.N. That Global Internet Should Start In Refugee Camps
Technology

Facebook CEO Tells U.N. That Global Internet Should Start In Refugee Camps

Mark Zuckerberg 'friends' key global leaders

What Would You Pay To Save Your Life?
Medicine

What Would You Pay To Save Your Life?

Some drugs can cost hundred of thousands of dollars, and no one really knows why

Are viruses alive? New evidence says yes
Evolution

Are viruses alive? New evidence says yes

Evolutionary history suggests they evolved from ancient cells

FDA Cracks Down On Pathway Genomics’ Cancer Blood Test
Cancer

FDA Cracks Down On Pathway Genomics’ Cancer Blood Test

The test isn’t backed by science and could be harmful

How Physicists Quantum Teleported Information Over 62 Miles
Physics

How Physicists Quantum Teleported Information Over 62 Miles

Bringing us one step closer to a quantum Internet