Growing up in Chicago, Illinois, Mae Jemison always had her sights set high. She was a trained ballerina but developed a deep love for science. Witnessing a lack of female representation in NASA’s astronaut program, she found inspiration from Nichelle Nichols, who played Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek.  At the age of 16, Jemison was […]

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My father would wear his shirts to death. His decades-old Hard Rock Cafe muscle tee was riddled with holes and holding on by a thread. He called it his “good shirt.” He’d wear it when working in the garage or mowing the lawn. When the straps would eventually snap, he’d cut them into smaller pieces […]

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The 1960s were a time of social movements and space exploration. While JFK declared the international space race, Black Americans were fighting for an end to segregation. A new documentary from National Geographic combines the worlds of civil rights and stellar achievements.  America's First Black Astronaut Trainee Growing up on the outskirts of Kansas City, […]

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A Mexican journalist and ufologist whose previous discoveries were debunked told the Mexican Congress he's found something truly out of this world: the remains of fossilized aliens. On Tuesday, researchers unveiled a pair of allegedly "non-human" mummified remains to Mexican and U.S. officials at the Mexican Congress. The corpses, retrieved from Cusco, Peru, have renewed […]

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In an achievement never done before, scientists have grown an embryo model resembling a human embryo without using sperm, eggs or a womb. Scientists called the creation an "entity," according to the Weizmann Institute of Science. The goal of the study isn't to play God, but rather to understand why certain birth defects and miscarriages […]

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