August 2016 Science Articles
- Discovery of 3.7 Billion Year Old Fossils Shakes up History of Life on Earth
- Aerojet Rocketdyne Tests Launch Abort System's "Jettison Motor" for NASA's Orion
- Science Explains Why Superman Could Pass As Clark Kent
- What the Kardashev Scale Says About SETI Signals
- Russian Astronomers Who Discovered Weird SETI Signal Say It’s Not Aliens
- Pinky the Pink Dolphin Is a Literal Thirst Trap
- More Americans Than Ever See Pot as Safe, and Scientists Are Worried
- A Wood Ant Colony Is Exposed in Polish Nuclear Weapons Bunker
- Science Explains How a Hickey Can Kill You
- There's a Terrifying Twin Hurricane System In the Pacific
- The DEA Is About to Ban the Psychoactive Opioid Kratom
- Hype Check: Is that New SETI Signal Really Aliens?
- This Monster Slug Is an IRL 'Stranger Things' Demogorgon
- Lucy’s Cause of Death Shows How Little We’ve Actually Evolved
- SpaceX To Launch SES Satellite Into Space on a Reused Falcon 9 Rocket
- 16-Year-Old Cape Canaveral Rocket Photographer On Shooting SpaceX Launches
- 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
- Taylor Swift, a Normal Human, Is Too Biased For Jury Duty
- So it Turns Out Your Dog Really Does Understand You
- Inside the Plan to Protect Mars From Earthlings
- Science Explains Why People Hate ‘Fight Song’ So Much
- Neste Designs Brainwave-Controlled Headphones
- New 'Extreme Trans-Neptunian' Space Rocks Could Lead Us to Planet Nine
- A Couple Astrophysicists Are Ready to Send Your DNA and Thoughts to Space
- Science Explains How 1 Lightning Bolt Killed 323 Reindeer
- The Sexy Cat in Kanye's 'Fade' Video Makes (Some) Scientific Sense
- 4 Changes to Future Olympic Viewing
- The 10 Worst Astronauts of All Time
- Alien Hunters Investigate Bizarre Radio Signal From Nearby Star
- Juno's New Photo of Jupiter Looks Pretty Awesome
- HI-SEAS Astronauts Reveal What Living on Simulated Mars for a Year is Like
- Astronomers Want SETI to Investigate Intriguing Signal from Sun-like Star
- Go Topless Day and Science Agree that Being Topless is Not Sexual
- Today NASA's Juno Spacecraft Flew Closer to Jupiter Than Ever Before
- Britney Spears's 'Man On The Moon' Is About Lonely Astronaut Wives
- NASA Submarine On Titan Could Find Life In Methane Ocean
- There Might Be Another Planet Orbiting Proxima Centauri
- The Fantastic Ocean Creatures Found By the E/V Nautilus
- The Best Places in America to See the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
- Future Summers Will Suck Because of Heat, Haze, and Hay Fever
- Juno Will Make Its Closest Flyby of Jupiter on Saturday
- Here's the SpaceX Dragon's Trip Back 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)
- Watch This Livestream of Proxima b Friday Evening
- 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
- Watch NASA Water-Test Its Orion Crew Capsule
- #TropicalStormGaston Is a Beautiful Meme
- NASA Gives Launch Contract for Mars 2020 Rover to ULA
- The Internet's Best Reactions to the New Habitable Exoplanet, Proxima b
- An Antarctic Ice Shelf the Size of Delaware Is About to Collapse
- Some People Hate the Word 'Love' the Way Others Hate 'Moist'
- Astrophysicists Discover Dragonfly 44: Galaxy Made of 99.99 Percent Dark Matter
- A New Way To Get Over Your Phobia
- NASA Astrobiology Director Worries We Won't Recognize Alien Life on Mars
- Biohacking Cyborg Amal Graafstra Explains Why You’ll Want NFC In Your Hands
- The Phone Lightning of 'Stranger Things' and 'Rings' Is Real
- We Might Have Found the Next Earth
- NASA Proposes Floating Space Gliders for Asteroid Missions
- 10 Years After Pluto Lost Planethood
- Scientists Find 4-Billion-Year-Old Fossil Riverbeds on Mars
- Does Godzilla Have a Penis?
- Kim Kardashian Can Smell If You Have Cavities—And You Can Too
- Transforming Robot Mirrors Could Enable Lunar Mining
- Ancient Machines are Inspiring Future NASA Rovers
- Scientists Estimate Arctic Permafrost Carbon Feedback for First Time
- A Parrot Who Sounds Like R2-D2 Is Missing
- Bagpipes Can Be Deadly
- The World’s Biggest Pearl in the Philippines is Kinda Bullshit
- NASA Wants to Use Microbes to Repair Electronics in Space
- China Releases Spacecraft Design for 2020 Mission to Mars
- Binge Watching TV Could Make You More Gullible
- Marvel's Writers Consulted With NASA for High-Tech 'Black Panther'
- Unraveling the Mysteries of How Mammals Survived the Dinosaurs
- When Will We See a Cloned Horse in the Olympics?
- The Largest T. Rex Skull Was Found In Hell Creek, Montana
- Sir Nils the Penguin Promoted to Brigadier
- NASA Finally Found its Missing Sun-Research Spacecraft
- NASA: Astrobiology is a Multigenerational Effort
- SKA Telescope and Supercomputer Will Skyrocket Search for Alien Life
- Transhumanist Presidential Candidate Zoltan Istvan Wants to Upgrade Trump
- KFC's Fried Chicken Sunscreen Is Sold Out
- The 10 Weirdest Things From 2016 Olympics in Rio
- Epigenetics Stands in the Way of Jurassic Park Science, Also Imminent Death
- Mario's Trip Through the Center of the Earth From Tokyo to Rio Can Happen
- Swearing Is a Goddamn Miracle, Says Science
- If the Olympics Were a Battle Royale, Laurie Hernandez Would Survive
- Self-Repairing Squid Tooth Clothes Will Kill the Vintage Store
- Here's How Gravity Might Have Affected The Pole Vault Tonight
- Curiosity Rover's 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' Boeing and SpaceX Era
- NASA Astronaut Mike Fincke Describes What It's Like to Spacewalk the ISS
- NASA Wants to Sell the ISS to a Private Company in the 2020s
- 'American Horror Story' Teaser Hints At Unified Canon
- This 16-Year-Old Perfectly Captured a ULA Delta IV Rocket Launch
- The Physics of the Knuckleball
- Taekwondo Has Undergone A Technological Revolution
- Ryan Lochte is a Narcissist or Stupid
- This Brain-Reading Headset Quantifies Your Thoughts
- Study Shows the GJ 1132b Exoplanet Once Had Oxygen in Atmosphere
- Your Favorite Headbanger Might Contain Secret Messages One Day
- PLANETS Foundation Sells Control of Deep Space Telescope for $10,000 a Month
- No, Tonight’s Partial Lunar Eclipse Won't Change Your Life
- Why Olympic Nationalism Unites the World in Irrational Hatred
- Olympic Pool Currents Gave Some Swimmers an Illegal Advantage
- OSIRIS-REx Will Teach Us How to Prevent Death By Asteroid
- This NASA Mission Will Land on Asteroid, Bring Back Sample
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Isn't Doping, But It's Very Close
- The History of Hating Black Cats on #BlackCatAppreciationDay
- In Canada's Dinosaur Country, Fossils Belong to the People
- Buzz Aldrin: There Should Be a Landing Age for Astronauts
- Kernel's Neural Implants Could Boost Failing Human Brains
- Sting Scanned His Brain For Science
- The 6 Best Episodes of DC's 'Legends of Tomorrow'
- This Olympic Pole Vaulter's Penis Was Not Aerodynamic
- You Should Be Taking Olympic Race Walking Seriously
- How Does Your Body Recover From a Decathlon?
- Watch NASA Build a SLS Rocket Fuel Tank in One Minute
- Only the Left Wings of Geese Are Good Enough For Badminton Shuttlecocks
- Imagining Your Workout Is Just As Good As Actually Doing It
- Is Anthony Weiner "Deceptively Strong" Like a Mongoose?
- NASA Probes Spot Supercharged Van Allen Radiation
- Badminton's Shuttlecock Is the Future of Spaceship Design
- Russia is Downsizing its ISS Cosmonaut Crew
- Rio's Water Has Super Bacteria
- Did Scientists Discover a Fifth Force of Nature?
- Mercury Will be Easier to See Tonight Than Most Others
- NASA Finds Giant Methane Plumes All Over the Southwest
- NASA is All Set For the Next ISS Spacewalk
- China Will Launch First Quantum Satellite Into Space
- Lab-Grown Black Hole Demonstrates Quantum Entanglement
- Why Simone Biles Won't Attempt the "Vault of Death"
- Nicaragua Is Hooking a Volcano Up to the Internet
- Science Says Olympic Silver Medalists Are Exactly as Pissed Off as You Think
- A Bat Cave on the Far Side of the Moon? Not A Bad Idea
- We Cried With the Brazilian Gymnasts Because of Mirroring
- 'Neural Dust' Pushes Us Closer to Implanted Realtime Health Monitoring
- Scientists Find a New Earth-Like Planet that's Really, Really Close
- Tas Pappas: Weed Tests Could Ruin Olympic Skateboarding
- Ryan Lochte Was Robbed in Rio, and Security Tech Didn't Help
- Michael Phelps's Gold Medals Weigh 14.6 Lbs and Other Stats
- Hydrogen Peroxide Made the Olympic Pools Turn Green
- Let's Bring Tug of War Back to the Olympic Games
- The Olympic Whitewater Course at Rio Is An Engineering Feat
- The Unique Impact Rio's Climate Will Have on Runners
- The U.S. Military's Most Advanced Fighter Jet Gets Grounded By Bees
- An Experiment With a Proton and Muon Makes Physics Fail
- Green Diving Pool Open For Olympic Diving Semifinals Rio 2016
- The Physics of the Perfect Dive
- The Table Tennis Matches In Rio Are Having Some Ball Problems
- It's Hot So Cockroaches Have Decided to Fly
- The Psychology of #PhelpsFace
- 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 Testing Helps Identify 400 Year Old Greenland Sharks
- Michael Phelps Pees in the Pool but Science Still Says That's Gross
- That Time Bill Clinton Legitimized the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
- Mars Colonists Will Fucking Hate the Perseids
- Why Aly Raisman's Floor Routine Isn't 'Impossible' Anymore
- Evolution Explains Why Different Countries Are Better at Different Sports
- Rare Blue Lobster Caught off Cape Cod Looks Like Pokemon
- Sensory Deprivation in "Stranger Things" Isn't Far Off From Reality
- There Is No Limit to Human Speed
- How Steve Is Climbing Trump Tower With Suction Cups
- Is Ryan Lochte's Hairlessness His Secret to Olympic Gold?
- Six Deep Space Habitat Prototypes NASA Wants Built
- The Twenty Science Questions Candidates Need to Answer
- Chemical Imbalanced Caused Green Diving Pool in Rio Olympics says FINA
- Soylent Announces Coffiest, a Coffee-Breakfast Hybrid for Caffeine Addicts
- How a Solar Storm Almost Started World War III
- Olympic Athletes Are Being Screwed by Climate Change in Rio
- Your Obsession With Guac Is Destroying Mexican Forests
- 5 Freaky Things Melting Permafrost Will Reveal
- All the Action in Olympic Fencing Comes From the Floor
- 4 Theories Why the Olympic Diving Pool Suddenly Turned Green
- Are We Alone In the Universe Because Aliens Just Don't Exist Yet?
- A Breakdown of How Simone Biles Defies Physics
- Oleg Verniaiev Instagrams Why Ukrainian Men's Gymnastic Team Threw Olympic Finals
- How Olympic Swimmers Channel Their Inner Dolphin
- First Commercial Space Mining Mission to Launch by 2020
- Rio Swimmers Must Now Choose Between Winning and Basically Being Poisoned
- Dogs Are Facing a Fertility Crisis
- Do Olympic Virgins Have Beginner's Luck?
- The Best Bows in Archery Are Collapsible and Consistent
- The Olympics Are Ultimately About Listen for Gunfire
- China Could Be Beating Us at Science by 2020
- Leslie Jones Starts as an Olympic Commentator This Friday
- 5 Theories Why Ukrainian Gymnasts are Throwing the Olympics
- NASA Is Revving Up Three Stellar Missions to Study the Sun
- Why Olympic Swimmers Get Voldemort Face
- The Sun Murdered a Comet
- The Summer Olympics has VR, GPS, Drones, and Google Maps
- What Did Ancient Olympians Eat?
- Can You See the Rio Olympics From Space?
- Earth Overshoot Day: Humans Just Blew Their Annual Ecological Budget
- How Mutually Assured Destructions Will Stop Star Wars Before They Start
- Watch an Orbital ATK Rocket Blast Off in NASA’s Incredible New HiD Camera
- Space Psychology 101: How NASA Keeps Its Astronauts Sane
- Brain Training Hype Is Just That -- Hype
- Wear Red to Win Gold Rio Olympics 2016
- The Life and Times of the Olympic Torch
- Weird Alien Megastructures Star Still Weird AF
- Can You Escape a Black Hole Through a Wormhole?
- How to Watch the Epic 2016 Perseid Meteor Shower
- Stuck Indoors Without a View? Stream Some Nature
- Which Countries Will Take Home the Most Gold in Rio?
- Scientists Could Genetically Engineer Vinicius, the Creepy Olympic Mascot Chimera
- Transgender and Gender Queer Athlete Rights Have Progressed Only a Little Bit
- North Korea Wants to Go to the Moon Within 10 Years
- Toni Braxton's Son Is Probably Not Cured of Autism
- Hard-Drinking Rats Provide a Genetic Basis For Alcoholism
- U.S. Government Lifts Moratorium On Human-Animal Chimera Research
- Ancient Whale Species 'Echovenator' Had Ultrasonic Hearing and Used Echolocation
- Tiny Homes Aren't For Everyone
- Did Luke Aikins' Free Fall Give NASA a New Method for Landing Astronauts?
- Jupiter Moon Io Has a Weird Collapsing Atmosphere
- Future Moon Express Mission Has Five Minerals to Mine on Moon
- Science and Psychology Explain Hawaii's Smiley Face Volcano
- ROV SuBastian Will Become the Hubble Telescope of the Sea
- Why Some People Survive Lightning Strikes
- The Permian-Triassic Boundary Is the Worst Mass Extinction You've Never Heard Of
- NASA Is Prepping for 1000-Day Space Trips
- Are Hexagons Sacred? Nature Would Say 'Yes'
- Totally Edgy Fracking Meme Site Celebrates First Birthday
- This Group is Fighting Marijuana Legalization in the Name of Science
- Hypnosis Might Help Treat Anxiety
- Darwinian Natural Selection Is at Work in 'Pokemon Sun' and 'Moon'
