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
