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Motherboard went to Biofabricate, a conference about the future of biomaterials to speak with Andrew Pelling who is developing DIY CO2 incubator kits. Something he hopes will allow people to grow their own human and animal tissues from home.

Tina Gorjanc is challenging the future of how we commodify human genetic material when it comes using it for the production of luxury goods.

What if we could use technology to cheat death?

A Smarter Gun is the never-before-seen look at who killed the smart gun and whether or not there is a place for user-authenticated firearm tech to scale in the future. It’s a story about human nature, public safety, the inertia of time-tested mechani

Dr. Chris Mason is using genetics to understand how humans will prepare for -and defend themselves against— life in space.

We went to one of the world's capital for cosmetic surgery to meet the plastic surgeon who broadcasts his operations live over Snapchat to over a million of followers.

Nature photographer Steve Axford—who stumbled upon a love of plant and animal life after retiring—talks about the beauty in fungi, and his work documenting the complex life form.

The ION Autonomous Snowplow Competition in St Paul, Minnesota is a yearly gathering of top engineers, who face off to see whose unmanned snowplowing robots can clear the most snow without any human intervention.

SNOLAB, one of the world's premier laboratories, searches for dark matter, supernovas, and neutrinos 6,800 feet underground. Motherboard meets the scientists and staff that make this place a leader in research and scientific exploration.

Motherboard got a first peek at the world's first biodegradable sneakers.

Watch all the parallels between this retro sci-fi film and reality in our inaugural episode of Future Shock.

Motherboard goes to Russia and South Korea to track down the people working to resurrect the prehistoric woolly mammoth.