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Extraterrestrial babies? Scientists want to know how microgravity would affect human reproduction

Wired | 
The plane’s rapid descent created a microgravity environment in the cockpit and for a few seconds, [pilot Daniel] González felt ...
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We need pollinators to grow food in space, but bees may not survive harsh extraterrestrial environment, study shows

Wired | 
One of the world’s newest space analogs is inside a white ziggurat on top of a former nuclear bunker in ...
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Searching for alien intelligence and how dolphins can help

Nautilus | 
The return to dolphins as a model for alien intelligence came in 1999, when SETI Institute astronomer Laurance Doyle proposed using information ...
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Dream state: Researchers manipulate ‘borderland’ between waking and sleeping

Motherboard | 
There is a borderland between waking life and the uncharted wilderness of sleep that we all traverse each night, but ...
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20 years after Dolly the sheep, human cloning is no closer

Vice | 
On July 5, 1996, after 276 failed attempts, a team of scientists at the Roslin Institute at the University of ...
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Changes in gene expression suggest plants may ‘feel’ touch

Motherboard | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. By and large, most ...
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