Women in Oregon can now get the pill over the counter
Specially trained pharmacists can now prescribe and supply hormonal contraception, a move that may help reduce unintended pregnancies
How to Build a Super Simple Electric Motor Out of Stuff You Already Have
This electric motor is fairly simple to build and uses materials that you can probably find around the house.
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Don’t Blame These Rains and Floods on El Niño
Rain in L.A., tornadoes in Texas, floods in the Midwest. But the monster El Niño is being set up!
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Smartwatch app detects epileptic seizures and texts a warning
After his wife had an unexpected seizure, programmer Ryan Clark wrote an app for her smartwatch to detect those characteristic movements and send a warning text
An Arcane Patent Law May Decide Crispr’s Big Legal Fight
The US Patent Office will now resolve a dispute over genome-editing technology through an arcane proceeding that technically should no longer exist.
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And the 2015 Pliny for Volcanic Event of the Year Goes To…
Time to count your votes for the 2015 Pliny for Volcanic Event of the Year.
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Vaping really isn’t as harmful for your cells as smoking
Findings that vaping damages cells made headlines last week, but the real message of the study was the opposite of what was mostly reported
Four new elements complete the seventh row of the periodic table
Elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 have been credited to teams in Japan, Russia and the US, who will now be able to propose names for them
Giant galaxy caught tearing apart its little neighbour
Two decades ago, astronomers caught the Milky Way shredding a dwarf galaxy. Now they've seen the same thing happening 11 million light-years away
Sci-Fi Movie Endings With Less Fiction and More Science
2015 was a great year for science fiction in the movies, but those flicks took a lot of liberties. Here's how a dash of real science would change things.
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