December 2016 Science Articles
- The 17 Best UFO Sightings of 2016
- A Comet Will Zoom Past Earth on New Year’s Eve
- Epic Video Shows a Meteor Soaring Behind an Erupting Volcano in Costa Rica
- Hubble Spies a Galactic Laser Beam Blasting Microwaves into Space
- Which Cities Will Climate Change Flood First?
- Why Punching a Punchable Face Is a Bad Idea, According to Science
- The 5 Best Science Memes of 2016
- 'Operation Tauros' Uses Gene Editing to Revive the Extinct Auroch
- Scientists Are Adding a Leap Second to 2016
- Scientists Will Send Signals into Space to Contact Proxima b Aliens By 2018
- Heat-Activated Metal Implants Could Solve Erectile Dysfunction Forever
- NASA Has a Lot Planned for Space Exploration in 2017
- Exorcists Say Synthetic Marijuana Drug K2 Is the Tool of Satan
- Magnetic Avalanches Could Explain That Weird ‘Alien Megastructures’ Star
- Cannabis Vomiting Syndrome Likely To Increase As Legalization Spreads
- The Most Important Experiment of 2016: Imaging the Human Brain on LSD
- Violent Stellar Winds Sculpt Cosmic Shells in Image of Large Magellanic Cloud
- Why Hyperdrive in 'Star Wars' Makes Space Travel Super Energy Efficient
- Only Republicans Can End Climate Change Denial For Good
- Maintaining Eye Contact While Talking Overwhelms the Brain
- Brain Scans Reveal Why Your Family's Political Debates Are Pointless
- Brain Electrodes Make Winter Soldier's Fake Arm Feel Like His Own
- Terraforming Mars Isn't Unethical, It's the Best Thing Humanity Could Do
- Science Explains Why Bald Heads Don't Get Goosebumps
- A British Neuropsychopharmacologist Proved LSD Can Resurrect the Infant Brain
- Biologists Proved Conception Doesn't Have to Start With an Egg and Sperm
- Political Scientists Proved Conversations With Trans People Cure Transphobia
- Physicists (Almost) Proved Einstein's Theory of General Relativity
- Science Confirms That Post-Holiday Emotional Hangovers Are Real
- Dissatisfied Couples Are Googling Whether They Should Break Up Post-HOliday
- 'Alien: Covenant''s Spine-Ripping Monster Is the Franchise's Strongest Yet
- Carrie Fisher Changed the Way We Talk About Bipolar Disorder and Addiction
- Drilling Into Europa May Reveal the Ingredients Essential for Life
- Vera Rubin, the Astrophysicist who Confirmed Dark Matter is Real, Dies at 88
- Dinosaur Fossils Reveal Why Birds Don't Have Teeth
- China to Send Probe to Moon in 2018 and Probe to Mars in 2020
- Clever Protein Marketing Tricks Gym Rats Into Pooping Expensive Turds
- Amateur Astronomy Trio Capture Image of Horsehead Nebula Rearing its Ugly Head
- Here's a Look at What We Learned About Mars in 2016
- Here's a Look at the Best Rocket Launches of 2016
- Margot Shetterly on How 'Hidden Figures' Honors NASA's First 'Computers'
- Life Has Gotten Weird Under the Greenland Ice
- Here's a Look at How Christmas is Celebrated in Space
- Piers Seller, NASA Astronaut and Climate Scientist Dies at 61
- Searching for Tiny Neutrinos in the South Pole
- The Douglas Fir's Dominance and the Pointlessness of Wild Christmas Trees
- The Connection Between Light Pollution and Sleeplessness
- The Key to Your Health Could Be in Your Zip Code
- Future Mars Residents Might Live in Ice Houses
- Our Brains Shouldn't Like the 'Christmassy' Chord in Holiday Pop
- Proxima b, Closest Potentially Habitable Alien Planet to Earth, Has Three Suns
- How to Give the Perfect Gift, According to Psychology
- Force Sensitivity In 'Star Wars' Is a Virus, Not a Genetic Mutation
- Why You Can’t Fry Eggs (Or Testicles) With a Cell Phone
- Psychology Slams 'Love Actually' For Encouraging Creepy Stalkers
- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Rings in Holidays with Festive NG 248 Nebula Photo
- New Research Sheds Light on Why Italy's Campi Flegrei Might Erupt
- Loss of Air in Outer Space Causes Your Body to Suffer an Ungodly Demise
- Ancient Tooth Decay Reveals That the Paleo Diet Contained Carbs
- How Often Does Chrismukkah Happen?
- A Russian Fisherman's Twitter is Full of Terrifying Creatures of the Deep
- 11 GIFs That Show the Jaw-Dropping Effects of Climate Change
- 'Star Wars'-Obsessed Scientists Name Massive Pre-Human After Chewbacca
- How Close Can You Get to the Sun Before You Melt to Death?
- Listerine Slows Down The Spread of Gonorrhea
- China Claims Successful Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive, Current Testing in Space
- Preeminent Weed DNA Expert: 'We Fucking Hate Monsanto'
- What Happens to a Penis in Space?
- Hubble Snaps a Shot of a Cartwheel Galaxy Born From a Violent Galactic Crash
- New Telescope Upgrade Should Help Scientists Find Many More Alien Planets
- Here's How Elon Musk Reacted to SpaceX's Earthly Landing a Year Ago
- Obama Defends Environment With Irreversible Ban on Offshore Arctic Drilling
- NASA's Using a Crazy Space Laser to Study Polar Climate Change
- Missing Nanodiamonds Debunk the Theory That Comets Flung Earth Into the Ice Age
- A Love For Rhythm Is a Universal Part of Being Human
- 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 EPA Career Very Scientists Nervous
- Scientists Are Hunting for Dark Matter at the Bottom of a Gold Mine
- The Marijuana Breathalyzer Arms Race Heats Up as Pot Laws Shift
- Hap's Brutal Experiments on 'The OA' Are Driven by Multiverse Theory
- Another Star is Exhibiting Strange, Unexplained Dimming Features
- Newly Discovered Newt Named After 'Star Trek' Klingons
- NASA's Vivid Image of NGC 6357 Lobster Nebula Composed of Different Wavelengths
- Japan Launches New ERG Satellite to Study Space Radiation
- CERN Scientist Measure Antimatter for First Time By Firing Laser at It
- Scientists Aren't Sure What Happens When You Mix Cannabis and Caffeine
- 8 States Where It's Legal to Give Marijuana Gifts This Holiday
- New Experiments Raise Doubts About Liquid Water on the Surface of Mars
- 'The OA' Gets the Science of Unique Heartbeats Right in Episode Two
- The Hotly Contested History of Scopolamine, the Zombie Serum of 'The OA'
- Hubble Takes a Beautiful Photo of Spiral Galaxy IC 5201 in Grus Constellation
- Japan Is Going to Mine the Moon for Rocket Fuel, And Other Valuable Resources
- Japan Wants to Solve Space Junk by Lassoing it Out of Earth's Orbit
- Star Trek 'Tricorders' May Soon Be a Reality Thanks to XPRIZE
- ULA Atlas V Successfully Lofts EchoStar XIX Satellite Into Orbit
- Sorry, Students: Research Shows Low Test Scores Are Linked to Internet Use
- New Hampshire Could Birth a Volcano in a Few Million Years
- California Could Launch Its Own Space Agency to Fight Donald Trump
- Vector Space Systems' Lit Engine Test Used a 3D Printed Fuel Injector
- Conservatives Think Syrian Refugees Are Smaller, Scarier Than They Are
- Trump Judges Character, Not Actions, When He Calls Things 'Disgusting'
- How Climate Change Flung Syria Into War
- Meth-Positive Racehorse 'Party Till Dawn' Should Blame Her Handlers
- Ghost Shark Captured On Camera Looks Like It Has a Penis On Its Head
- Astronomers Find Powerful Cosmic 'Tornado' Around Infant Star for the First Time
- Scientists are About to Find a Hoard of New Black Holes in Outer Space
- Stunning Space Image Peers Into the Heart of the Star-Forming Lagoon Nebula
- Scientists Found an Actual Death Star That's Destroying Other Planets
- SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Virgin Galactic Have Terrible Brandingave Terrible Branding
- Dinosaur Art Will Become the Violent Heart of Paleontology
- How to Eat and Drink Your Christmas Tree
- To Find Extraterrestrial Life, We Should Look For the Alien Defense Systems
- These British Dudes Sent a Meat Pie Into Space For Science
- Trump Advisor Says Climate Change Is Like the Flat Earth Hoax
- Can Music Help You Concentrate? Not For Men In This Scenario
- Here's What the Breakthrough Age Reversal Study Means For You
- Ceres' Hidden Water-Ice Stash Could Be Big for Space Mining and Search for Aliens
- Special Relativity and the Doppler Effect Are the Science Behind Santa
- NASA Just Fired 8 Microsatellites Into Space to Watch Hurricanes
- Here is How NASA Will Pick a Landing Spot for its Mars 2020 Rover Mission
- The NASA 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
- Newly Unearthed Footprints Suggest Ancient Males Had Multiple Sex Partners
- Rick Perry at the Department of Energy Could Go One of Two Ways
- A SETI Researcher Thinks Astrobiologists are Searching For Alien Life Incorrectly
- Adolfo Cambiaso Continues to Dominate Polo With His Six Cloned Horses
- SpaceX Won't Bring NASA Equipment to Mars During First Red Dragon Mission
- Londoners Do More Cocaine In a Work Week Than the Rest of Europe
- How to Get High on the Nutmeg You Bought For Eggnog
- Trump Mirrors the Dark History of Ideology-Driven Science
- Women Denied Abortions Report Negative Psychological Effects
- How NASA Chased the Origin of Life Through Moscow and Into Exobiology Research
- Human Penis Bones Went Missing Because of Monogamous Sex
- NASA Scientist Says to Build Interceptor Rocket to Destroy Asteroids and Comets
- NASA' Creates Scary 3D Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Build Up
- Scientists Are Trying to Save Government Data on Climate Change from Trump
- Tonight's "Full Cold Moon" is Also the Third "Supermoon" of 2016
- All Pee Stinks After Eating Asparagus, But Not Everyone Smells It
- The World Will Be a Different Place When the Arctic Ice is Gone
- The 5 Best Science Experiments for Adults
- Hopes of Alien Life on Mars Boosted After NASA's Curiosity Rover Finds Boron
- Long-Exposure Image Shows Telescope's Laser-Guided Mirror In Action
- 'Science and the City' Reimagines the Urban Planning of the Future
- Colorado Sold $1 Billion Worth of Legal Cannabis in Less Than a Year
- SpaceX Could Save NASA's Plans if Trump Scraps the Asteroid Redirect Mission
- Astronomers Unexpectedly Discover Pair of Infant Planets Orbiting Young Star
- What We'll Lose to Climate Change in 2017
- The Emerging Science of ‘Bromosexual’ Friendships
- Gravity is Distorting the NGC 4388 Galaxy's Shape in New Hubble Photo
- Tweet Your Vomit to Stop the Contagious Norovirus
- Here Are the 10 Most Popular Climate Change Conspiracy Theories
- Tonight's Supermoon Will Ruin the Geminids Meteor Shower
- American Teenagers Say Yes to Weed, No to Hard Drugs and Alcohol
- Japan's "White Stork" Cargo Ship Delivers Much-Needed Supplies to Space Station
- How To Make a Perfect Snowball in the Worst Snow Conditions
- Climate Change Shrunk the Reindeer, So Santa Has to Rethink His Strategy
- SpaceX and Boeing's Commerical Crew Failure Puts NASA at Russia's Mercy
- Storms Made of Rubies and Sapphire Ravage This Distant Gas Giant
- Netflix's 'The OA' Might Just Be One Long 7-Year-Old Fake Memory
- NASA is Crowdsourcing Ideas for a 2025 New Frontiers Mission to Deep Space
- Donald Trump Says "Nobody Really Knows" Where He Stands on the Environment
- Antarctica Dome A and Terahertz Radiaion Could Teach Us How Universe Got Born
- Why Your Brain Is Programmed to See the McDonald's Cup Butt
- 'Assassin's Creed' Twists The Real Life Science of Epigenetic Memory
- NASA and ESA Spot Two Galaxies are Colliding and Forming a Galactic Eye
- NASA is Going to Hobble Through a Trump Presidency
- That's No Supernova: 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
- An Israeli Programmer 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
- Why Are There Disastrous Wildfires in the Southeast?
- Rubies Are the Earth Equivalent of Star Wars Kyber Crystals
- 110 Years Ago, The New York Times Front Page Though We Found Aliens on Mars
- Watch a SpaceX Rocket Nozzle Being Formed
- Scientists Turned Silly Putty Into An Advanced Medical Tool
- The Only Thing Stopping Primates From Talking to Humans Is Their Brain
- Amateur Astronomer Unravels Mysterious Fast-Spinning, Star-Eating Pulsar
- The Plot of 'War of the Planet of the Apes' Is Essentially Gause's Law
- The Prawn Nebula Glows With the Light of Newborn Stars
- Scientists Are Reverse Engineering Drought Resistant Plants With Tequila
- The World Paid a Touching Tribute to Astronaut John Glenn
- McLaren Report: The "Duchess Cocktail" Fueled Russian Athletes
- SolarStratos to Use Solar Energy to for Space Tourism Trips
- Organics on Mars Make NASA Scientists So Optimistic About Finding Alien Life
- Did 'Jurassic Park' Predict This Dinosaur Tail Preserved in Amber?
- Low on Funds, Mars One Delays Dubious Crewed Mission to Red Planet Until 2031
- Violent Space Collisions May Have Naturally Produced 'Impossible’ Quasicrystal
- Science Reveals Why Tattooed Dudes Are So Damn Attractive
- Map Uses Geological Survey Data to Show Every Body of Water in the U.S.
- VR Isn't Going To Be Like LSD — It's Going To Be Much Better
- The 15 Most Badass NASA Pictures of John Glenn
- John Glenn Remembers the Weird NASA Gimbal Rig
- The Post-Earthquake Reaction of the Weed Capital of America Will be to Toke Up More
- SpaceX Return to Flight Delayed Until January, Loses Customer to Competitor
- Spider-Man Becomes a Flying Squirrel in New 'Homecoming' Tease
- NASA Just Uploaded its Whole Dope GIF Library to Pinterest and Giphy
- Why Does Snow Burn?
- Ohio's 'Heartbeat Bill' Horrifies Even Pro-Lifers
- Pope Francis: Fake News Spreaders Are Shit-Loving Coprophiliacs
- The Star of Bethlehem Was Probably a Rare Alignment of Planets
- Trump's EPA Pick Says the Climate Change "Debate is Far From Settled"
- In 200 Million Years, One Earth Day Will Last 25 Hours
- Marijuana Use Is On the Rise Among Baby Boomers
- All Brains Look The Same When They're Remembering 'Sherlock'
- Scientists Are Developing Self-Healing Chips For Interstellar Space Travel
- Science Says Forensic Evidence Isn't Foolproof. Now What?
- Scientists Learn Dark Matter Might Be Smoother Than We Once Thought
- Science Explains Why Being Grateful Is Good For You
- For the Dystopia of 'Incorporated,' Syfy Called Up a UN Climate Change Negotiator
- How Would President Donald Trump Communicate With Aliens Visitors?
- NASA GeoCARB Just Pledged $166 Million to Fight Climate Change From Space
- Highly Intelligent People Are Less Satisfied By Friendships
- To Find Aliens, a Synthetic Biologist Says We Should Serach For Alien DNA
- Golden State's Draymond Green Blames Crotch Kicking on Knee-Jerk Kinesiology
- NASA Needs to Start Scraping Mars for DNA
- 'Meaningless Game' Stats Reveal Baseball's Most Steadfast Stars
- Fusion Energy Is Going to Change
- Frequent Pubic Hair Grooming Is Linked To Higher Risk of STIs
- Telescope Chip Could Allow Us to Take Clear Images of Alien Worlds
- Trump Has Options to Save Coal Jobs, But They're All Bad
- Bird Wears Little Goggles and Flies Through Laser to Study Flight
- Proxima Centauri b Could Be Habitable
- Finding Distant Alien Life Means Detecting Subtle Biosignatures
- NASA Astronauts Enjoy First of Four Harvests of Lettuce Grown on Space Station
- Dr. Ford's Obsession With Pain Unlocked Consciousness in 'Westworld''s Hosts
- Scientists Searching for Aliens are Looking for Earth-Like Lifeforms
- The More We Learn About Minerals on Mars, the Better Our Odds of Finding Life
- To Understand Possible Alien Life, Look to Europa and Enceladus
- 'Pupula Duplex' In 'The Mummy' Is One of Medicine's Oldest Myths
- The Incessantly Improbable Detroit Lions Finally Did a Predictable Thing
- Three Bond-Like Theoretical Physicists Won the Breakthrough Prize Red Carpet
- Photo Shows Four Galaxies Colliding Near the Milky Way's Twin
- Trump's Plan to Slash NASA's Earth Science Budget is Terrible Policy
- Netflix AI Could Help NASA Search for Exoplanets
- Team Indus Secures ISRO Moon Launch Contract for Google's Lunar Xprize
- ESA Officially Approves Life-Finding ExoMars Mission
- Ultimate Tesla Fan Made a Badass Handheld Tesla Coil Gun
- How to See Venus in the Night Sky Tonight
- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Completes First Successful Free-Flight
- Could Pluto’s Liquid Subsurface Ocean Support Alien Life?
- Charlie Sheen's HIV Drug is a Scientific Breakthrough and Financial Burden
- Evolutionary Biology Says Your Face Evolved to Look Like a Butt
- Loss of Russian Resupply Cargo Will Not Negatively Affect Space Station Crew
- Cool Dad Barack Obama Says Weed Is Just Like Alcohol and Cigarettes
- Marvel Is Spotlighting This Real-Life Scientist in "The Unstoppable Wasp"
- Why Does AIDS Still Exist, Even After Decades of Research?
- Million Dollar Sculpture at FBI Headquarters Made People Seriously Ill
- Hubble Spies Distant Black Hole Eating Host Galaxy and Making Cosmic Filaments
- House Science and Tech Committee Tweets Breitbart Climate Change-Denial Article
- NASA's Second SAFFIRE Test Turns Another Cygnus Spacecraft into Smithereens
- Knocking Chinese Astronaut Heard Probably Wasn't Aliens
- A Bunch of Kids Made Martin Shkreli's $750 Malaria Drug for $2
- America's Most Famous Dinosaur, Sue the T. Rex, Has a Sexual Identity Crisis
- UNC and Indiana’s Crazy-Loud Fans Might Screw Their Players
- Russia Has Lost the Progress Cargo Ship Headed for the Space Station
- Here's How The Rock Could Have Pulled Out That Guy's Tongue
- A Giant Galaxy is Growing 10 Billion Light-Years from Earth
- Tennessee Gets Its Own Element "Tennessine"
- Dear Tennis Pro Lee Duck-Hee Defies Dependence on Sound
- SpaceX Seems Poised to Launch Rockets Again On December 16
- 4 Science-Approved Hacks For Stopping a Runny Nose
- How is Stephen Hawking So Stinking Wealthy?
- African Elephants Are Becoming Tuskless to Evade Poachers
- 'Ailing' Buzz Aldrin Has Been Medically Evacuated from the South Pole
- German Scientists Might Put an Audi Rover on the Moon
