The birds and the bees talk may need an upgrade soon. Scientists are working on ways to use blood and skin cells to replace sperm and eggs. So, will sex go by the wayside?
Karen Weintraub writes about the science behind these headlines in Scientific American. She says we are still years away from human babies being created with eggs and sperm. So far scientists have only created eggs out of skin cells from mice.
The idea of creating babies without parents will likely raise a number of ethical and cultural questions. Weintraub says the scientific studies are still in such early stages that they haven't begun to receive cultural scrutiny.
The government plays a key role in determining the colors of your food, and for that, we can thank the margarine wars of the late 19th century.
A designer named Robert Propst dreamed up what he called “The Action Office” as a groovy 1960s workplace utopia. This is how it all went so wrong.
The huge parachute used by NASA's Perseverance rover to land on Mars contained a secret message.
KoBold Metals announced a partnership with Stanford University to improve mineral mining efficiency while also receiving investments from major players in the climate space such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures overseen by Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos.
An analysis by U.S. regulators says Johnson & Johnson's single-dose vaccine protects against COVID-19.
The COVID-19 death toll in the U.S. has topped 500,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea, and Vietnam combined.
A bone cancer survivor who's now a physician assistant will join a billionaire on SpaceX's first private spaceflight this fall.
Southern U.S. cities slammed by winter storms that left millions without power for days have traded one crisis for another.
President Joe Biden toured a state-of-the-art coronavirus vaccine plant Friday as extreme winter weather across broad swaths of the U.S. handed his vaccination campaign its first major setback.
A NASA rover has landed on Mars in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on the red planet.
