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Grabbing hold and letting go: The exploding bolts that bring us to space
Space

Grabbing hold and letting go: The exploding bolts that bring us to space

The story of heroic fasteners that will get us to the moon and back.

Your skin’s melanin can conduct electricity
Health

Your skin’s melanin can conduct electricity

The pigment could coat electronic implants.

The truth about the nut-brain connection
Nutrition

The truth about the nut-brain connection

Does eating a few almonds really boost your cognitive function?

Disastrous spring floods loom for half of the United States
Climate Change

Disastrous spring floods loom for half of the United States

Officials could order evacuations in 25 states.

Before self-driving cars can get safer, they need to push their limits
Self Driving

Before self-driving cars can get safer, they need to push their limits

Autonomous vehicles are usually conservative. This one screeches its tires.

Taxing soda would help make kids healthier
Nutrition

Taxing soda would help make kids healthier

American kids consume far more added sugar than is recommended.

Planes of the future will feature virtual reality, yoga studios, and lots of cauliflower
Aviation

Planes of the future will feature virtual reality, yoga studios, and lots of cauliflower

These airlines are betting you'll love spending 20 hours on a plane.

Here’s why NASA really canceled its first all-women spacewalk
NASA

Here’s why NASA really canceled its first all-women spacewalk

The reasons are understandable, but they also reinforce concerns about gender bias.

Finding the world’s super poopers could save a lot of butts
Health

Finding the world’s super poopers could save a lot of butts

Studies using fecal transplants to treat inflammatory bowel diseases suggest some poop may be better than others.

These Chinese fossil deposits shed light on an explosive period in evolution
Evolution

These Chinese fossil deposits shed light on an explosive period in evolution

Tracking the Cambrian Explosion, when the oceans first filled with complex animal life.

Squishy robots now have squishy computers to control them
Robots

Squishy robots now have squishy computers to control them

Driven by a soft-drive.

Here’s how many trees are required to cool a city street
Global Warming

Here’s how many trees are required to cool a city street

An equation for throwing shade

We’re in the middle of the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak ever
Diseases

We’re in the middle of the second-deadliest Ebola outbreak ever

The hemorrhagic fever has infected more than 1,000 in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The best ways to spend on online services—whether you have $50, $75 or $100 a month
Tech Hacks

The best ways to spend on online services—whether you have $50, $75 or $100 a month

The digital subscriptions you should be signing up for.

No jetpacks. Zero flying cars. Where is the future we were promised?
Self Driving

No jetpacks. Zero flying cars. Where is the future we were promised?

A state of four of our top people-moving dreams.

How much space does all of humanity’s knowledge take up?
Technology

How much space does all of humanity’s knowledge take up?

It takes a lot of data storage to know it all.

apple breeding chart
Science

How we breed the best (and worst) apples

Apples all come from the same tree.

Most of us have viruses sleeping inside us, and spaceflight wakes them up
Space

Most of us have viruses sleeping inside us, and spaceflight wakes them up

One more thing to worry about in space.

A baby was born with her own twin growing inside her
Health

A baby was born with her own twin growing inside her

Here's how fetus in fetu happens.

10 GIFs Of Deep-Sea Creatures Encountering A Sub
Ocean

10 GIFs Of Deep-Sea Creatures Encountering A Sub

Never-before-seen images from a recent expedition to the ocean floor