December 2016 Science Articles
- The 17 Best UFO Sightings of 2016
- A Comet Will Zoom Past Earth on New Year’s Eve
- Watch a Meteor Soar Behind an Erupting Volcano in this Epic Video
- Hubble Spies a Galactic Laser Beam Blasting Microwaves Into Space
- Which Cities Will Climate Change Flood First?
- Why You Shouldn't Punch a Punchable Face
- The Best Science Memes of 2016
- 'Operation Tauros' Is Reviving the Extinct, Belligerent Auroch
- Scientists Are Adding a Leap Second to a Never-Ending 2016
- Scientists Will Attempt to Contact Proxima b Aliens By 2018
- The Heat-Activated Metal Boner Has Arrived
- NASA Is About to Have a Huge Year in 2017
- Religious Exorcists Think K2 Is A Demon Drug Of the Occult
- The Alien Megastructure Star Might Have Come From Magnetic Avalanches
- Cannabis Vomiting Syndrome is Legalization's Weird, Gross Side Effect
- The 2016 Experiment of the Year
- See Violent Stellar Winds Sculpt Cosmic Shells in this Photo
- Hyperdrive Makes Sci-Fi Space Travel Super Energy Efficient
- How Is Climate Change Denial Still a Thing?
- Maintaining Eye Contact While Talking Overwhelms the Brain
- Brain Scans Reveal Why Your Family's Political Debates This Holiday Were Futile
- Brain Electrodes Make Winter Soldier's Fake Arm Feel Like His Own
- Screw Aristotle — Terraforming Mars is the Right Thing to Do
- Bald Guys Don't Get Goosebumps Because of an "Evolutionary Hangover"
- Fertile Cell Clusters Redefine Conception
- LSD Makes Adult Brains Childlike
- Talking to Bigots Temporarily Cures Bigotry
- Gravitational Wave Interferometers Prove Einstein Right
- The Post-Holiday Emotional Hangover Is Real
- Google Trends Reveals Post-Holiday Breakups Are Coming
- 'Alien: Covenant''s Spine Ripping Monster Is the Strongest One Yet
- Carrie Fisher Took on the Stigma of Mental Illness and Addiction
- Finding Extraterrestrial Life on Europa May Come Down to Drills
- How Vera Rubin Confirmed Dark Matter is Real
- Birds Don't Have Teeth Because of Their Dinosaur Ancestors
- China Still Stoked for Pointless Mission to Dark Side of the Moon
- Protein Powder Afficionados Are Literally Paying to Poop
- Spellbinding Image Shows Horsehead Nebula Rearing its Ugly Head
- Here's a Look at What We Learned About Mars in 2016
- Feast Your Eyes on a Collection of the Best Space Launches in 2016
- Finally Telling the Story of NASA's First 'Computers'
- Life Has Gotten Weird Under the Greenland Ice
- Here's How The ISS Crew Will Celebrate Christmas in Space
- NASA Astronaut and Climate Scientist Piers Sellers Dies at 61
- Searching for Tiny Neutrinos in the South Pole
- The Douglas Fir's Dominance and the Pointlessness of Wild Christmas Trees
- Shining a Light on Our Sleeplessness
- The Key to Your Health Could Be in Your Zip Code
- Future Mars Residents May Live in a Home Made of Ice
- No One Wants to Live in My Simulation Space Colony
- Our Brains Shouldn't Like the "Christmassy" Chord in Holiday Pop
- Nearest Potentially Habitable Alien Planet Has Three Suns
- How to Give Gifts, According to Psychology
- The Force In 'Star Wars' May Actually Be a Virus
- Why You Can’t Fry Eggs (or Testicles) With a Cell Phone
- Psychology Slams 'Love Actually' for Encouraging Creepy Stalkers
- Hubble Rings in the Holidays with Festive New Nebula Photo
- There's an Obvious Reason This Ancient Volcano Might Erupt
- When You Lose Air in Space, Your Body Suffers an Ungodly Death
- Ancient Tooth Decay Reveals Carb-Filled Truth About Paleo Diet
- How Often Does Chrismukkah Happen?
- This Russian Fisherman's Feed Is Full of Terrifying Creatures of the Deep
- 11 GIFs That Show the Effects of Climate Change
- 'Star Wars'-Obsessed Scientists Name Massive Pre-Human 'Chewie'
- How Close Can You Get to the Sun Before You Melt to Death?
- In the War Against Gonorrhea, Listerine is a Nuclear Bomb
- China Claims It Has Done the "Impossible" with EmDrive
- Preeminent Weed DNA Expert: 'We Fucking Hate Monsanto'
- What Happens to Dicks in Space?
- Hubble Photo Shows Violent Crash Birthing Cartwheel Galaxy
- The Search for Alien Worlds Just Got a Major Upgrade
- Here's How Elon Musk Reacted to SpaceX's Earthly Landing a Year Ago
- Obama Enacts Unprecedented, Irreversible Defense of Environment
- This NASA Laser Could Save the World
- Missing Nanodiamonds Undermine Ice Age Comet Impact Theory
- Humans Are Hardwired to Love Sick Beats
- Watch This Atlas V Rocket Headed for Space Soar Past an Airplane
- Seizure-Triggering Tweets Targeting Epileptics Are Rare but Real
- 5 Reasons Why Scott Pruitt Makes the EPA's Career Scientists Nervous
- The Hunt for Dark Matter at the Bottom of a Gold Mine
- Inside the Marijuana Breathalyzer Arms Race
- Hap's Brutal Experiments on 'The OA' Are Driven by Multiverse Theory
- That Weird ‘Alien Megastructures’ Star Isn’t Alone
- 'Star Trek'-Inspired "Klingon Newt" May Not Live Long and Prosper
- Lobster Nebula Photo Vividly Melts Electromagnetic Spectrum Together
- Japan Launches a New Satellite to Study Space Radiation
- Scientists Measure Antimatter for First Time by Firing Laser at It
- Science Hasn't Caught Up to Weed-Infused Coffee
- 8 States Where It's Legal to Gift Weed for Christmas
- New Experiments Raise Doubts About Liquid Water on Mars
- 'The OA' Gets The Uniqueness of Heartbeats Right in Episode Two
- Scopolamine Is a Hoax Truth Serum in 'The OA'
- Hubble Photographs a Gorgeous Spiral Galaxy Inside 'The Crane'
- Japan Is Going to Mine the Moon
- Japan Wants to Lasso Space Junk Out of Earth's Orbit
- Star Trek "Tricorders" Will Soon Be a Reality Thanks to XPRIZE
- Atlas V Successfully Lofts EchoStar XIX Satellite Into Orbit
- Sorry, Students: Low Test Scores Are Linked to Internet Use
- New Hampshire: Future Volcano Hot Spot?
- Yes, California Really Could Launch Its Own Space Agency
- This Lit Engine Test Used a 3D-Printed Fuel Injector
- Conservative Genes Stoke Fears of "Small" Syrians
- Trump Thinks "Disgusting" Things Are Out to Get Him
- How Climate Change Sparked the Syrian Conflict
- Why Is the Racehorse "Party Till Dawn" Doing Meth?
- Ghost Shark Captured on Camera Looks Like It Has a Dick On Its Head
- A "Tornado" of Cosmic Matter is Whirling Around This Infant Star
- Scientists are About to Find a Hoard of New Black Holes
- Stunning Image Peers Into the Heart of a Star-Forming Lagoon
- 'Rogue One' Is Bogus, Here’s an Actual Death Star
- Your Space Company Sucks at Branding
- Paleontology's Artistic Renaissance Will Be Violent AF
- How to Eat and Drink Your Christmas Tree
- Extraterrestrial Defense Systems Will Help us Find Alien Life
- These British Dudes Sent a Meat Pie Into Space for Science
- Trump's Adviser Thinks Climate Change Is Like the Flat Earth Hoax
- For Men, Listening to AC/DC and Playing Board Games Is a Bad Combo
- Scientists Reversed Aging in Mice, but It's No Fountain of Youth
- Ceres' Hidden Water-Ice Stash Is a Boon for Space Mining
- Relativity Theory Explains How Santa Fits Down Your Chimney
- NASA Just Launched a Rocket to Watch Hurricanes From Space
- Here's How NASA Will Pick a Landing Spot on Mars
- The Mars Mission Conspiracy Theory Explodes on Liftoff
- NASA's 'Juno' Spacecraft Snaps Shot of a "Pearl" on Jupiter
- The Polar Vortex Will Come in Two Waves: Everything We Know So Far
- Newly Unearthed Footprints Suggest Ancient Males Had Multiple Wives
- We're Searching for Life on Mars All Wrong
- Rick Perry at the Department of Energy Could Go One of Two Ways
- Six Horse Clones Triumph at Prominent Polo Tournament
- SpaceX Won’t Haul Around NASA Gear During First Mars Mission
- Londoners Do More Cocaine in a Work Week Than Other Europeans
- How to Get High on the Nutmeg You Bought For Eggnog
- Trump's America Recalls the Dark History of Ideology-Driven Science
- Science Confirms Women Denied Abortions Actually Do Suffer
- Exobiology Went to Space After a Stopover in Moscow
- Missing Human Penis Bones Uncovered by Scientists
- Build a Rocket to Stop Oncoming Asteroids, Says NASA Scientist
- Watch NASA's Trippy, Scary Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Build Up
- Scientists Try to Save Government Climate Change Data From Trump
- Tonight's "Full Cold Moon" is Also the Third "Supermoon" of 2016
- Not Everyone Thinks Post-Asparagus Pee Smells Nasty
- 4 Ways the World Will Be Weirder When the Arctic Ice is Gone
- How to Win Science Fairs as a Grown-Ass Adult
- Curiosity Rover's New Findings Boost Hopes of Alien Life on Mars
- Long-Exposure Image Shows Telescope Lasers in Action
- Science Hasn't Figured Out How to Build the Perfect City Yet
- Colorado Sold $1 Billion Worth of Legal Weed in Under a Year
- SpaceX Could Bail Out NASA if Asteroid Redirect Mission is Axed
- Twin Planet Discovery is Game Changer in Finding New Worlds
- What We'll Lose to Climate Change in 2017
- The Emerging Science of ‘Bromosexual’ Friendships
- New Hubble Image Shows Gravity Warping a Distant Galaxy
- The Medical Case for Putting Your Vomit on Twitter
- The 10 Most Popular Climate Change Conspiracy Theories
- Tonight's Supermoon Will Ruin the Geminids Meteor Shower
- American Teens Say No to All Drugs Except Weed
- Japan's "White Stork" Spacecraft Delivers Supplies to Sapped ISS
- How to Make a Perfect Snowball, According to Physics
- Climate Change Shrunk Reindeer, So Santa Has to Rethink His Plan
- SpaceX's Commerical Crew Failure Puts NASA at Russia's Mercy
- Storms Made of Rubies and Sapphires Ravage This Distant Gas Giant
- Netflix's Creepy Thriller 'The OA' Is Probably One Long, 7-Year Memory Fever Dream
- NASA Is Crowdsourcing Ideas for a 2025 Deep Space Mission
- Actually, We Do Know Donald Trump's Stance on the Environment
- This Antarctic Dome Could Teach Us How the Universe Got Born
- Your Brain is Programmed to See the McDonald's Cup Butt
- 'Assassin’s Creed' Is A Sci-Fi Twist On Epigenetic Memory
- Two Galaxies are Colliding and Forming a Bizarre Galactic Eye
- NASA is Going to Hobble Through a Trump Presidency
- A Spinning Supermassive Black Hole "Spaghettified" a Star
- Scientists Name New Spider After Harry Potter Sorting Hat
- Einstein's Theory of Relativity is 100 Years Old, But May Not Last
- This Artist Wants to 3D Print Laughter and Launch it Into Space
- NASA's Juno Spacecraft Preps for Third Science Orbit
- NASA Hacked the GPS System to Help Study Hurricanes
- Three Climate Change Denials by Scott Pruitt, Trump's EPA Pick
- NASA's Suitcase-Sized Hurricane Hunters Are Ready for Launch
- Drought and Arson Turned the Southeast into Southern California
- Rubies Are Real-Life Kyber Crystals From 'Star Wars'
- 110 Years Ago 'The New York Times' Thought We Found Aliens on Mars
- Watch a SpaceX Rocket Nozzle Being Formed
- Silly Putty Will Improve Medical Research as Ultramodern Sensor
- Primates Would Talk Like Humans, if Only Their Brains Were Like Ours
- Amateur Astronomer Unravels Mysterious Fast-Spinning Pulsar
- 'The Planet of the Apes' Is a Modern Retelling of Gause's Law
- A Galactic Superbubble Glows With the Light of Newborn Stars
- Tequila Holds the Secret to Drought Resistant Plants
- The World Paid a Touching Tribute to Astronaut John Glenn
- The "Duchess Cocktail" Fueled Russian Athletes to Olympic Victory
- SolarStratos Will Use Solar for Space Tourism
- Why NASA Is So Optimistic About Finding Life on Mars
- 'Jurassic Park' Predicted This Dinosaur Tail Stuck in Amber
- Broke Mars One Program Delays Sketchy Crewed Mission Until 2031
- Violent Space Collisions Might Have Created New Quasicrystal
- Science Explains Why Tattooed Dudes Are So Damn Attractive
- Map Shows Every Body of Water in the United States
- VR Isn't Going To Be Like LSD — It's Going to Be Much Better
- The 15 Most Badass Pictures of the Late, Great, John Glenn
- John Glenn Remembers the Weird-Ass NASA Gimbal Rig
- For Earthquake-Stricken Weed Capital of America, Weed is the Answer
