August 2016 Science Articles
- Scientists Just Found the Oldest Fossils of Life on Earth
- When Rocket Launches Go Wrong, This Engine Kicks On
- Science Explains Why Superman Could Pass as Clark Kent
- The Kardashev Scale Has Thoughts on the Weird AF SETI Signal
- Russian Astronomers Say Weird SETI Signal Is Not Aliens
- Pinky the Pink Dolphin Is the Definition of Thirst Trap
- More Americans Than Ever Think Pot Is Safe
- A Dark, Cold, Sexless Ant Colony Thrives in a Nuclear Bunker
- Here's How a Hickey Could Kill You
- Global Warming Has Created a Two-Headed Hurricane Monster
- This Psychoactive Opioid Is Getting Banned by the DEA
- Hype Check: Is That Russian SETI Signal Really Aliens?
- This Monster Slug Is an IRL 'Stranger Things’ Demogorgon
- Lucy Fell From a Tree — Here's Why It Matters
- SpaceX Will Re-Launch This Rocket in Late 2016
- The World's Best Rocket Launch Photographer Is 16
- Don't Blame the Multiverse for Humanity's Shortcomings
- Drug Tests Treat Athletes Like Extraterrestrials
- Targeted Memory Reactivation Will Make You Smarter as You Sleep
- No, Taylor Swift Isn't Too Biased for Jury Duty
- Your Dog Really Does Get You
- Let's Not Screw Up Mars When We Get There
- Science Explains Why People Hate "Fight Song" So Much
- These Headphones Could Control Sound Using Brainwaves
- New Space Rocks Could Lead Us to the Mysterious Planet Nine
- What If You Could Upload Your DNA and Thoughts to Space?
- Science Explains How 1 Lightning Bolt Killed 323 Reindeer
- Is the Sexy Cat in Kanye’s "Fade" Video Realistic?
- 4 Ways Future Olympic Viewing Will Be Vastly Improved
- The 10 Worst Astronauts of All Time
- Alien Hunters Find Bizarre Radio Signal From Nearby Star
- Juno's New Photo of Jupiter Looks Pretty Awesome
- Astronauts Emerge From Year-Long Mars Isolation Simulation
- Astronomers Want SETI to Look Into Signal From Sun-Like Star
- Being Topless Is Decidedly Not Sexual, Science Says
- Today We Flew Closer to Jupiter Than Ever Before
- The Truth About Britney Spears's 'Man on the Moon'
- NASA Wants to Drop a Submarine in Titan's Ocean to Find Life
- There Might Be Another Planet Orbiting Proxima Centauri
- The Googly-Eyed Squid Is Only One of Many Rad 'Nautilus' Finds
- The Dark Hot American Summer Travel Guide
- Heat, Haze, and Hay Fever Will Ruin Your Future Summers
- 'Juno' Is About to Make Its Closest Flyby of Jupiter Yet
- The SpaceX Dragon Drops from the ISS to Earth in 3 Photos
- Venus and Jupiter Are About to Get Real Close
- The Roots of Dr. Brenner's Weird Accent on 'Stranger Things'
- Let's Welcome This Mars Mission Team Home (From Hawaii)
- Turn Up on Friday Night With This Proxima b Livestream
- Peyton Manning Isn't the Only One Who Hates Loud Chewing
- Colorado Police Use Suspect's DNA to Create 3D Model
- SpaceX Dragon, Having Made History, Detaches From ISS
- NASA Tests 'Orion' Capsule With a Splash
- #TropicalStormGaston Is a Beautiful Meme
- NASA Just Gave ULA the Launch Contract for Mars 2020
- The Internet Loves Proxima b
- An Ice Shelf the Size of Delaware Is About to Collapse
- Non-English Speakers Think Love Is Gross
- Scientists Discover Galaxy Made of 99.99 Percent Dark Matter
- There's a New Way to Combat Your Fear of Spiders
- NASA Says We Won't Recognize Alien Life When We Find it
- Biohacking Cyborg Explains Why You Need NFC In Your Hands
- The Phone Lightning of 'Stranger Things' and 'Rings' Exists
- This New Exoplanet Could Be the Next Earth and It's Very Close
- NASA's Asteroid Glider Concept Is a Floating Space Spider
- Pluto, 10 Years After It Was Demoted
- Scientists Find 4-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Riverbeds on Mars
- So, Does Godzilla Have a Penis?
- Can Kim Kardashian Actually Smell If You Have Cavities?
- Giant Robot Mirrors Could Help Mine the Moon for Rocket Fuel
- How Ancient Machines Are Inspiring Future NASA Rovers
- Scientists Estimate Permafrost Carbon Loop for First Time
- A Parrot Who Sounds Like R2-D2 Is Missing
- Bagpipes Can Be Deadly, Laddies!
- The World’s Biggest Pearl is Kinda Bullshit
- Nasa Can Use Microbes to Turn Martian Dust Into Electronics
- China Unveils Spacecraft Design for 2020 Mission to Mars
- Watching a Lot of Television Makes You Gullible
- Black Panther Writer: Marvel 'Put a Chip in My Head' to Stop Leaks
- These Tiny Ancient Mammals Were Tougher Than a T. Rex
- Will We See a Cloned Horse in the Next Olympics?
- Massive T. Rex Skull Unearthed in Montana
- Norway Just Promoted a King Penguin to Brigadier
- NASA Finally Found its Missing Sun-Research Spacecraft
- NASA Knows Astrobiology Will Be a Multigenerational Effort
- Supercomputer-Telescope Duo Ramps Up Search for Alien Life
- The Transhumanist Party's New Policy Proposal: Upgrade Trump
- KFC's Fried Chicken Sunscreen Sells Out In 3 Hours
- The 2016 Rio Olympics Were Weird as Hell
- We Can't Resurrect T. Rex and We Don't Want To
- Mario's Trip Through the Center of the Earth, Analyzed
- Fuck Yeah! Swearing Is a Goddamn Miracle, Says Science
- If the Olympics Had Been a Battle Royale, Who Would Have Survived?
- Self-Repairing Squid Teeth Clothes Will Be Trendy
- Weaker Gravity Changes Pole Vaulting Challenges Based on Location
- This Mars Panoramic Photo Shows What Humans Might See on Mars
- Ryan Lochte May or May Not Be Sorry
- Olympic Race Walker Shits Himself and Still Places Seventh
- NASA's Latest Spacewalk Kickstarts the ISS's Private Company Era
- NASA Astronauts Describe What It's Like to Walk in Space
- NASA Wants to Sell the ISS to a Private Company in the 2020s
- 'American Horror Story' Now Has a Unified Canon
- This 16-Year-Old Perfectly Captured a Delta IV Rocket Launch
- The Zigzag Physics of the Knuckleball
- Taekwondo Is Fairer Than Ever This Olympics
- Science: Ryan Lochte Is a Narcissist or Stupid or Both
- This Venus-Like Exoplanet Used to Have an Oxygen Atmosphere
- This Mind-Reading Headset Might Bring You Zen
- Club Beats Might Actually Be Secret Codes
- You Can Control a Deep Space Telescope for $10,000 a Month
- No, Tonight’s Partial Lunar Eclipse Won't Change Your Life
- Olympic Nationalism Unites Us in Irrational Hate
- Olympic Pool Currents Gave Some Swimmers an Illegal Advantage
- OSIRIS-REx Will Teach Us How to Prevent Death by Asteroid
- How NASA Plans to Capture Life From an Asteroid
- Thor's Performance Enhancing Drug of Choice
- On #BlackCatAppreciation Day, Why Humans Have Hated Black Cats
- Exploring Canada's Socialist Dinosaur Paradise
- Buzz Aldrin Thinks There Should Be a "Landing Age" for Space Explorers
- Kernel's Neural Implants Could Boost Failing Human Brains
- Sting Scanned His Brain So Scientists Could Understand His Creative Genius
- These Are the Six Best Episodes of 'Legends of Tomorrow'
- Science Explains How This Olympic Pole Vaulter Literally Got Cock Blocked
- Olympic Race Walking Is Not a Joke
- Recovering From a Decathlon Is Pretty Hard
- Watch NASA Build a Massive Rocket Fuel Tank in One Minute
- Shuttlecocks Can Only Be Made of the Left Wings of Geese
- Good News, Lazy Asses: Imagining Your Workout Is Beneficial
- Anthony Weiner Says He's Strong Like a Mongoose, but Is He?
- NASA Probes Catch View of Supercharged Van Allen Radiation
- Badminton Physics Offers Lessons for Future Space Travel
- Russia Is Downsizing Its ISS Cosmonaut Crew
- Rio's Got Super Bacteria, but Olympic Sailors Don't Care
- Did Scientists Just Discover a Fifth Force of Nature?
- How to See Mercury When It Comes Out of Hiding Tonight
- NASA Finds Giant Methane Plumes All Over the Southwest
- Why Friday's Spacewalk Is Key to the Future of Private Spaceflight
- China Will Launch the First Quantum Satellite Into Outer Space
- Lab-Grown Black Hole Demonstrates Quantum Entanglement
- Why Simone Biles Won't Attempt the "Vault of Death"
- Nicaragua's Internet of Things is Volcanic
- Pissed Off Silver Medalists Engage in Counterfactual Thinking
- A Bat Cave on the Far Side of the Moon? Not a Bad Idea
- Why You Ugly Cried When That Brazilian Gymnast Sobbed
- Engineers Develop "Neural Dust" That Will Replace Your Fitbit
- This New Earth-Like Planet Is Really, Really Close to Us
- Tas Pappas: Weed Tests Could Ruin Olympic Skateboarding
- Ryan Lochte and the Extent of Rio's Security Technology
- Michael Phelps's Gold Medals Weigh 14.6 Lbs and Other Stats
- 47 Gallons of Hydrogen Peroxide Made the Olympic Pools Green
- Let's Bring Tug of War Back to the Olympics!
- The Olympic Whitewater Course Is an Engineering Marvel
- How Rio's Climate Will Impact Olympic Running Records
- The U.S. Military's Most Advanced Fighter Jet Gets Grounded by Bees
- Scientists Experimented With Muons and Now Physics Is Broken
- Green Fart Pool Opens in Time for Olympic Diving Semifinals
- Breaking Down the Physics of the Perfect Dive
- Olympics Table Tennis Has Some Ball Problems
- Flying Cockroaches Are Here Because It's Too Damn Hot
- #PhelpsFace and the Psychology of Olympic-Sized Rivalries
- The Green Olympic Diving Pool Is Closed and Smells Like Farts
- NASA: Venus Could Have Hosted Alien Life a Billion Years Ago
- The Perseid Meteor Shower Was Dope AF
- Nuclear Bombs Helped Discover 400 Year Old Sharks
- Michael Phelps Pees in the Pool but Science Still Says That's Gross
- Remember When Bill Clinton Legitimized the Search for Life in Space?
- Mars Colonists Will Not Enjoy the Perseids
- Why Aly Raisman's Floor Routine Isn't "Impossible" Anymore
- Living Near the Equator Makes Longer Limbs, Faster Marathons
- Look at This Blue Lobster, Just Look at It
- Real ESP Experiments Inspired 'Stranger Things'
- There Is No Limit to Human Speed
- How That Guy Climbed Trump Tower Using Only Suction Cups
- Ryan Lochte's Hairlessness Is More Important Than His Hair
- 6 Companies That Could Build Us Deep-Space Habitats
- 20 Science Questions We Need to Ask Clinton and Trump
- A Chemical Imbalance Caused the Olympic Diving Pool to Suddenly Turn Green
- Soylent Makes a Coffee-Breakfast Hybrid for Caffeine Addicts
- A Solar Storm Almost Started World War III
- Climate Change Makes Olympic Records Harder to Break in Rio
- Americans' Obsession With Guac Is Ruining Mexico's Forests
- 5 Freaky Things Emerging From Melting Arctic Ice
- You're Watching Olympic Fencing Wrong
- 4 Theories Why the Olympic Diving Pool Suddenly Turned Green
- Did Life on Earth Arise Prematurely?
- Simone Biles's Physics-Defying, Incredible Flip
- Why the Ukrainian Men's Gymnastic Team Decided to Throw Team Finals
- Why Elite Swimmers Mimic Fish and Dolphins
- Asteroid Mining Will Begin In Just 4 Years
- Rio Swimmers Must Choose Between Winning and Getting Poisoned
- Dog Sperm Potency Has Declined Over 26 Years
- Do Olympic Virgins Have Beginner’s Luck?
- The Secret to the Best Bows in Olympic Archery
- The Olympics Are About Listening for Gunfire
- China Might Beat the U.S. at Science by 2020
- Leslie Jones Will Join the NBC Olympics Team This Friday
- 5 Theories Why Ukrainian Gymnasts Are Throwing the Olympics
- NASA Is Revving Up Three Stellar Missions to Study the Sun
- Why Swimmers Voldemort-Face as They Emerge
- The Sun Murdered a Comet
- This Summer's Olympics Features New Tech for the Athletes, and Us
