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December 2015 Science Articles

  • Why Does Fractal Broccoli Look Like It Belongs in ‘Star Wars’?
  • Obama Signs a Bill to Kill Microbeads, Which Was About Damn Time
  • We Have Goats Milking Spider Silk and You Should Never Sleep Again
  • A Film Crew Infiltrated NASA to Get 'Operation Avalanche' Just Right
  • The Super-Rich Are Buying Ice-Busting Yachts to Explore the Canadian Arctic
  • Four Elements Are About to Get Names on the Periodic Table
  • Science to Watch in 2016: CRISPR Edits, Penis Swaps, and a Jupiter Mission
  • SeaWorld Is Suing California for the Right to Breed Killer Whales
  • The Animals Get Savage in Disney's Furry-Friendly New 'Zootopia' Trailer
  • Hubble Space Telescope Captures Images of Two Galaxies Colliding, Merging
  • Legal American Weed Is Undercutting Mexican Drug Cartel Profits
  • Pantone Lies: The 2016 Color of the Year Isn’t Rose Quartz, It’s Titanium
  • Chrissy Teigen, Questlove, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Other Cookbooks We Can't Wait for in 2016 
  • El Niño Weather Will Scramble Winter Across America in 2016
  • European Space Agency Just Gave Itself a Moon Base Deadline: 2040
  • North Pole Temperatures Just Went Above Freezing in the Dark Dead of Winter
  • A Scientific Case for Replacing Champagne With Coffee on New Year's Eve
  • Congress Orders NASA to Build a Deep Space Habitat by 2018, is Insane
  • Congress Gives NASA Some Serious Loot
  • What is a Wormhole? Why is a Wormhole? Why Should You Care?
  • ‘Freak’ Storm Heads Toward Iceland
  • Brain Surgeons Are Turning to Hypnosis as an Alternative to Anesthesia
  • California's Sierra Mountain Snowpack Is at a 500-Year Low
  • NASA's Space Station Plants Are Dying, But Space Gardening Is Coming
  • Scientists Have Identified Intelligence-Linked Genes for the First Time
  • Russia Ends Its Federal Space Agency
  • Winter Storm Goliath Drops Snow and Ice Across the U.S.
  • Marijuana Companies Don’t Want to Be ‘Cash Only’
  • Judge Tosses Drunk Driving Charge in Auto-Brewery Syndrome Case
  • Will Humans Ever Build Starships?
  • The U.S. Has Cleared the Way for Commercial Asteroid Mining
  • NASA Releases Footage of Meteor Buzzing Georgia
  • Light in the Attic: How Optogenetics Make Transhuman Brain Hacking Possible
  • Filmmakers Use 50 Years of Footage From NASA to Create Short Films
  • Expect Delays Getting Home This Holiday Weekend
  • The Best Way to up Your Crying Game Is by Not Crying Ever, Even to Adele
  • Deep Sea Exploration is About To Be Sexy Again Thanks to Improved Robots
  • Climate Change Probably Caused the Tornado Destroying Mississippi 
  • DEA Eases a Key Restriction on Cannabidiol Study
  • The ‘Living Breakwaters’ Enlists Oysters to Help Protect a City
  • 5 Idioms That Won't Make Sense in 2025 
  • NASA’s Dawn Shows Craters and Surface Details of Ceres
  • To Beat Death and Become Immortals, We First Must Defeat Entropy
  • Super Comets Are Out There, and Could Head Toward Earth
  • The American Chemical Society Takes to Reddit to Show Support for Weed
  • Washington State Pot Laws Show the Risks of Selling Weed From a Cold Start 
  • NASA Suspends the 2016 Launch of Unmanned Mars Mission
  • Drone Footage Captures Devastation of Shenzhen Landslide 
  • The Best Advertisement of 2015 Is Johnny Depp's Dior Perfume Ad
  • UberHOP Could Save Food Trucks From Themselves
  • Farms Face Rising Costs and Hard Times as Wild Bees Decline
  • A Plan to Grow Potatoes on Mars in the Works
  • Chronic Inflammation Turns Eyes Into Skin
  • SpaceX Lands the First Stage of a Rocket During an Orbital Launch
  • Video: Monday's NASA Spacewalk Around the ISS Goes Off Without a Hitch
  • Why Driving in Snow at Night Looks Like the 'Star Wars' Jump to Hyperspace
  • Astronauts Begin 'Unplanned' Spacewalk
  • NASA to Make Critical ISS Repairs During Spacewalk on Monday
  • What the 'MST3K' Kickstarter Success Tells Us About Crowdfunding
  • Paris' COP21 Agreement Failed Millions of Potential Climate Change Refugees
  • When Polar Bears Are No Longer Climate Change Icons, Elephants Will Take Their Place
  • How the U.N. Knows the Population of Earth Will Hit 9.7 Billion by 2050
  • Scientists Fear Tropical Monkey Extinctions Will Make Climate Change Worse 
  • Ivy League Schools Don't Care About You and That's an Education Right There
  • The Overview Effect Will Save Earth One Rich Space Tourist at a Time
  • Check Out NASA's 3D-Printed Giant Flaming Rocket Engine
  • Theoretical Physics, the Scientific Method, and the Damage Done
  • Cassini Spacecraft to Fly by Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus for Final Time
  • This Guy Proposed to His Wife From the Edge of Space
  • Astronomers Discover Closest Planet in the 'Habitable Zone' That Could Host Aliens
  • The Earth's Core Is Like a Planet Inside a Planet
  • Could Quantum Entanglement Explain the Force?
  • How Many Lab Mice Did American Researchers Kill in 2015?
  • Asteroid 2003 SD220 to Pass Earth on Christmas Eve
  • New Report: Arctic of the Future Will Be Barely Recognizable
  • Why the Ancient Grain Freekeh Isn't the Next Quinoa ... Yet. 
  • Teens Are Getting Smarter About Taking Drugs
  • Rogue Data May Introduce Physicists to the Higgs-Boson's Overweight Cousin
  • New Plan: Let's Eliminate Space Junk With Satellites ‘Designed for Demise’ 
  • Polar Bears Are Struggling to Keep Up on Alaskan 'Treadmill' 
  • How Nickelodeon Mixes its Green Slime
  • Pollution in China Gets So Bad People Are Importing Air
  • Adults Need Snow Days, Too
  • The 9 Best Space Pictures Of 2015
  • Here's How NASA Scientists Will Use VR to Connect Earth and Space
  • Thousands of Scientists Sent This Open Letter to the Supreme Court About Diversity
  • The 12 Best Space Pictures of 2015
  • Watch the '12  Days of Evolution', Just in Time for Christmas
  • First British Astronaut Launches Into Space, Nation Rejoices
  • Farmers Feed Dead Piglets to Living Pigs for Health Reasons
  • NASA Maps Show Better Air Quality in the USA, Worse Air Quality in China
  • Leonardo DiCaprio Says Climate Change Made Filming 'The Revenant' Complicated
  • NASA's Next Generation of Spacesuits Look Fly as Hell
  • Here's the Best of Bill Nye Explaining Science to People on Twitter
  • How to Bring the Galapagos Tortoise Back From the Dead
  • FAA Declares You Must Register Your Drone by Mid-February
  • NASA Astronaut Job Application Advises That 'Frequent Travel May Be Required'
  • 'Mars Colonial Transport Architecture' Is How Elon Musk Will Get Humans to Mars 
  • China's Latest Antibiotic Resistance Crisis Proves Honesty Defeats Plagues
  • With 'No Plan B,' World Leaders Agree to Curb Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 2 Degrees
  • What It's Like to See L.A. Bury 1,300 Unclaimed Bodies in One Service
  • Mount Etna Is Spewing Lava Everywhere and There's Nothing to Worry About
  • Paris Climate Talks Are Like a 'Stupid Business Conference' for Saving the World
  • How to Become an Astronaut (If You Were Born Yesterday)
  • Tripping Down the Biohacking Spectrum From Drugs to Extreme Wetware
  • First British Astronaut Fancies a Trip to Space, Doesn't Realize What He's Getting Into
  • To Follow Jose Canseco's Plan to Nuke Mars We're Gonna Need Many More Bombs
  • What Going Home for the Holidays Does to Your Brain
  • Astronauts Return to Earth After 141-Day Mission
  • Meet the Weed Genius Designing the World's First Cannabis Ranch 
  • Future Mars Settlers Could Make Good Wine, But Heavy Metal Drinking is Bad
  • How Smart Is an Orangutan Exactly?
  • How to Walk Perfectly
  • Air Conditioners of the Future May Not Be Air Conditioners at All
  • How Charlie Brown Killed the Aluminum Christmas Tree And Helped the Environment
  • Food Porn Is Creating an Ugly Food Gold Rush Potentially Worth Billions
  • NASA Can Build R2D2, But Doesn't Want Star Wars Robots
  • The Paris Climate Talks Are Now About Money and Liability
  • How Sea Shepherd's 'Steve Irwin' Will Use Dead Whales to Protect Live Ones
  • Scientists Reopen 360-Million-Year-Old Galaxy-on-Galaxy Violence Cold Case
  • McDonald's Menu Hacks Have Become the Norm With All-Day Breakfast
  • Maine Seaweed Is the New Kale, Says Experimental Portland Chef David Levi
  • Milking Cows at Night Makes the Milk a Sleepy-Time Drink
  • The Flu Isn't a Cold: A Brief User's Guide to Terrible, Seasonal Diseases
  • The 5 Dumbest Moments From Ted Cruz's Panel on Climate Change
  • Coverage of the Cygnus Cargo Craft Arrival at the ISS
  • Cassini Spacecraft Offers These Dreamy Photos of Saturn's Moon Prometheus
  • VenomKB, a Therapeutic Natural Toxins Database, Makes Folklore Into Science
  • Remember: NASA Starts Accepting Astronaut Applications in a Week
  • Could NASA Turn an Asteroid Into a Satellite? Should We? Why Not?
  • Cockroaches Find the Scent of Bacteria Attractive
  • Dinosaurs Evolved From Dinosauromorphs Faster Than Paleontologists Thought
  • 'The Leftovers' Creator Tom Perrotta Reflects on Season 2 
  • Rocking Beds Are a Crazy and Crazy-Effective Solution to Sleep Problems
  • Lucid Dreaming Will End PTSD When Scientists Restrain Our Wild Subconscious
  • 20 Years Ago, NASA's Galileo Probe Went Down in a Blaze of Jupiter Glory
  • NASA Signatures and Neil Armstrong's Autograph Are Cheap, But Won't Be for Long
  • Watch the Atlas V Rocket Launch on Its Fourth Try Sunday
  • Pluto: Here Are the Sharpest Photos Yet
  • How We're Getting Ready for 70 Percent of the World to Live in Megacities
  • The Orbital ATK Mission to the International Space Station Got Scrubbed Again
  • Watch 400 Million Gallons of Poo-Water Fill a Gigantic Pit Near Chicago
  • What Happens When Airlines Lose Your Luggage
  • Fermilab Has Reason to Suspect We Don't Live in a Holographic Universe
  • Scientists Can Now Read a Fly's Mind
  • How Gravitational Waves Really Work
  • Science Explains How to Know If Someone Is Flirting With You
  • Mount Etna Erupts With a Spectacular Show of Lighting
  • Why Orbital ATK's Launch to ISS Is So Important to the Future of Commercial Space
  • With ‘Racing Extinction,’ Discovery Bets on Ecological Outrage as Good TV
  • An Unstoppable Fungus Disease Is Wiping Out the World's Banana Plants
  • Hawaii's Supreme Court Just Nixed the Thirty Meter Telescope Permit 
  • Everything You Need to Know About Today's Cygnus Spacecraft Launch to the ISS
  • Looking for Alien Life on Other Planets? Check the Planet Next Door
  • India’s Planned Expansion of Coal Power Threatens the Planet
  • A Nearby Star Is Regularly Spewing Violent Superflares 
  • The LISA Pathfinder Launches Tonight
  • Alabama Man's Hoverboard Explodes Under Him, Complicating Safety Debate
  • At Paris Climate Talks, Canada Promises to Clean Up Its Dirty Reputation
  • Researchers Find Sauropod Footprints in Scotland
  • Incidents of Arctic Hybridization on the Rise
  • Astronomers Just Discovered a Cradle of Baby Jupiter Exoplanets
  • Men Will Be Able To Carry Children, As Long As Insurance Pays For It
  • Scientists Discover a Planet Evicted From Its Stellar Neighborhood
  • 'Rick and Morty' Prove That Fast Food Ads Should Be Gross
  • 'Going to Amsterdam' Will Never Be Transgressive Again and That's Too Bad
  • The 2015 Guide to App Gifts That Are Also Thoughtful Gifts
  • No, There Isn't a Mouse on Mars. (Don’t Be Stupid.)
  • Video Shows Dramatic Lightning Storm Ravaging Brisbane, Australia 
  • Fake Brandalism Adverts in Paris Call Out Capitalism During Climate Talks
  • NASA Releases Hype Video for the Valkyries, Its Mars-Landing Robots
  • Researchers Pursue Aspirin Element That Mitigates Alzheimer’s Effects
  • Japan Approves Plan to Kill 300 Whales 'For Science' 
  • Science Proving Hairiness Is Next to Cleanliness Can Prolong the Beard Boom
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