Thanks to chimerism, it’s possible for a woman to bear children to which she is technically their aunt, not their mother. In 2002, Lydia Fairchild was denied public assistance in Washington state when DNA evidence appeared to show that she was not the mother of her children. A lawyer for the prosecution heard of a human chimera in New…

Every day, a whopping $3 trillion worth of transactions are processed by a programming language that’s older than your grandparents. This language is called COBOL, short for Common Business Oriented Language. Even though it’s been around for 64 years and isn’t taught in most schools anymore, it’s still super important in many industries like banking,…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to explore the outer solar system? To see the giant planet Jupiter and its many moons up close? To search for signs of life on a world covered by ice? If you have, then you might be interested in a NASA mission that is going to…