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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.

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.

'Future Sex' author Emily Witt recalls her encounters with looming sex gods, tentacle monsters, and pneumatic dominatrices.

Computer programmer Sharif Corinaldi discusses the nature of dating apps and the hack he created to optimize the user experience.

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.