December 2017 Science Articles
- Why January 2018 Will Have Two Full Supermoons
- Scientists Warn Against Riding Motorcycles During a Full Moon
- 8 Moments in 2017 That Were Really, Really, Really Bad for Science
- Doctors Treat PTSD by Letting Patients Listen to Their Own Brainwaves
- The First Supermoon of 2018 Has An Extra Surprise in Store
- The 25 Most-Read Inverse Science Stories of 2017: Wild, Wonderful & Strange
- 10 Space Facts Guaranteed to Make You Sound Smart at Parties
- This Sneaky Octopus Species Managed to Bamboozle Scientists for Years
- There's Nothing Weird About This Komodo Dragon Eating a Whole Monkey
- 'The Simpsons' Shut Down Trump's Climate Change Tweet 8 Years Ago
- Marijuana's Unexpectedly Helpful Role in Psychosis Revealed in New Study
- Threatening to Punish People Will Never Lead to Peace, Study Shows
- "Leidenfrost Effect" Lets Reddit Hero Pass Hand Through Molten Metal
- How to See the Quadrantids, the First Big Meteor Shower of the Year
- A Physicist Tries to Teach Kids String Theory Using Music
- It Isn't Too Late to Get a Flu Shot This Year, say Scientists
- The Most Perplexing Science Moments of 2017, in Pictures
- 10 Science Tweets That Defined This Weird, Bad, But Often Hopeful Year
- These Holiday Plants Are Worse For Your Dog Than Poinsettias
- Why the "Christmas Tree Cluster" is the Most Festive Place in the Universe
- Why Cats Love Destroying Christmas Trees, According to Science
- This Seriously Creepy Asteroid Is Coming Back To Earth For Round Two
- Putin's Habit of Bathing in Deer Antler Blood: a Scientific Investigation
- Physicists Say the Epic Hyperdrive Scene in 'The Last Jedi' Is Plausible
- A List of Everything American Scientists Will Have to Tackle in 2018
- Science Explains How Air in This Frat House Registered on a Breathalyzer
- Easter Island's Giant Stone Hats Are Rewriting Its Mysterious History
- Here's The Real-Life Biology of Every "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" Creature
- Beware of Very Good Boys Sneaking Christmas Chocolate, Warn Doctors
- Canada's Newest Snow-Clearing Method Makes Streets Look Like a Bloodbath
- Climate Scientists Figured Out Why Winter Is So Long on 'Game of Thrones'
- Before 2017, Scientists Had No Idea These 5 Freaky Animals Existed
- The 25 Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2017
- Science Explains Why Rome's Sad, Balding Christmas Tree Is Beyond Saving
- This Super Loud Fish Orgy Is Deafening Animals Around It
- Orgasm Study Reveals Why the Prostate Really is the 'Male G-Spot'
- Why You Get Tired When It's Dark
- U.S. Government Lifts 3-Year Research Ban on Engineering Lethal Viruses
- Scientists Claim These Fossils are the Oldest Evidence of Life on Earth
- The FDA's Next Target Is Gwyneth Paltrow's Homeopathic Remedies
- Why Your Cat Runs Around at Night Like a Maniac, According to Science
- The Scientific Reason Why Cedar Keeps Moths Away From Old Clothes
- Ketamine Appears to Work as an Emergency Anti-Suicide Treatment
- Evidence of Martian Life Is Likely Under the Crust, Say Scientists
- Tonight Will Be the Darkest of 2017 Thanks to December's New Moon
- Why Sleep Scientists Want You to Wear a Guy Fieri Accessory
- This Fat 3.5-Million-Year Old Bear Was a Dentist's Nightmare
- A French Waterproofing Company Paid $646,000 for Ancient Mammoth Bones
- We Finally Know How Uranus Got Its Moons
- This "Evaporating Exoplanet" Just Got Even More Mysterious
- No 'Dirty' American Chickens, Say British Food Safety Experts
- Beware of Cell Phone Radiation, Says California Health Department
- Male Virgins Can Get a Common STD Even If They Haven't Had Sex
- Why Monkeys Humping Deer Shouldn’t Surprise You
- Scientists Successfully Use Hypnosis to Trigger Color-Number Synesthesia
- Controversial Study Says Women Find Men Attractive Based on One Body Part
- Ryan Shazier Begins Rehab 10 Days After Spinal Injury, Says Hospital
- Newly Discovered Exoplanet Kepler-90i Has Started Some Space Drama
- FDA Cracks Down on Teens Who Want to Snort Chocolate Like Cocaine
- NASA Just Discovered Another Planet in an Alien System
- Will Sex Robots Replace Humans?
- Glowing Plants Will Replace Lights, Make World Like 'Avatar', Says Study
- NASA Announcement Today: Three Scientists Give Their Kepler Theories
- David Attenborough Warns: Sixth Mass Extinction Is Imminent
- Meet the World's Oldest Vertebrate, an Elusive 512-Year-Old Greenland Shark
- Study Finds That Wine Glass Size Grew by 531 Percent Since 1700
- CDC Estimates Show the Flu is Actually Deadlier Than Scientists Thought
- Peter Thiel is Betting That Magic Mushrooms Can Treat Depression
- NASA's Most Underrated Probe Could Help Us Find Where Alien Life is Hiding
- Scientists Explain How Wild Earth Would Be if it Had Rings
- Ending Net Neutrality Could Speed Up America's Science Brain Drain
- Being a Workaholic Doesn't Have to Kill You, Say Scientists
- This Ancient Penguin Known as 'Monster Bird' Could Have Whooped Your Ass
- New Image of a "Stellar Nursery" is Majestic But Also Terrifying
- Clean Energy Revolution Will Usher in a 'New Normal', Says James Redford
- Why the Geminid Meteor Shower is the "King of the Meteor Showers'
- The Next Target of NASA's New Horizons Might Be Hiding A Secret
- Macron's 'Make Our Planet Great Again' Plan Began With Trump's Brain Drain
- Why Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Is a Lie, According to Science
- This Tiny, Heroic Tick Trolled Dinosaurs 100 Million Years Ago
- Here's What Internet Pioneers Told Congress About Saving Net Neutrality
- Ancient DNA Uncovers Fierce Peruvian Tribe Who Almost Beat the Incas
- Chemists Find New Evidence That Life Might Have Started in Space
- Italy's Oldest Humans Drink and Smoke a Lot But Will Probably Outlive You
- Whiny Men Claiming to Have 'Man Flu' May Be Justified, Says Doctor
- History of Human Violence Reveals Worrying Trends About Our Nature
- Captain America Summed Up the State of Science in a Single Tweet
- Why You Won't Vomit on Space Camp's Crazy Astronaut Training Simulator
- Humans Will Never Be More Physically Perfect Than NBA Stars, Say Scientists
- California's 230,000-Acre Thomas Fire Is a Unique Public Health Challenge
- Cosmic Car Crash Could Be a New Way to Form Stars, Study Finds
- New Study Puts Number on the Deadliness of Window Blinds
- Apple Watch Relieves Cancer Patients of a Major Burden, Study Finds
- The Science Behind President Trump's 12 Diet Cokes a Day
- Video of a Dying Polar Bear Previews Extinction, Says Biologist
- This Biotech Company Wants to Tattoo You With DNA From Your Loved Ones
- Bill Nye Just Settled the "Best Planet" Debate Once and For All
- Official Lil Peep Death Certificate Reveals Cause of Accidental Death
- A Rare Large-Scale Acupuncture Study Showed Very Positive Results
- New Optical Illusion Discovered by Japanese Scientist Is Totally Baffling
- When Everything Is Silent, the Earth Emanates a Mysterious Hum
- The Next Stage of Ryan Shazier's Spinal Recovery Will Be Psychological
- Ryan Shazier Spinal Stabilization Surgery Is “Not Good,” Say Doctors
- The Story of Human Migration Out of Africa Just Got Rewritten
- Starbucks' Christmas Tree Frappuccino Is a Chemical Nightmare, Science Says
- Geneticists Show How to Alter Disease DNA Without Creating Mutations
- This Supermassive Black Hole Is a "Rare Relic from the Early Universe"
- We Totally Underestimated How Terrifying America's Invasive Plants Are
- Nobel Laureate Retracts Own Paper in 'Definitely Embarrassing' Science Fail
- In Netflix's 'Bill Nye' Season 2, the Science Guy Takes on Marijuana
- "Extremely Rare" Dino Dug Up by Construction Crew Mistaken for Triceratops
- Ryan Shazier's Spinal Contusion Isn't a Rare NFL Injury, Say Doctors
- This "Super-Earth" Could Be Hiding Alien Life — And Another Surprise
- The NBA's Heart Disease Problem Is a Race Issue, Say Doctors
- Why It's Okay To Get A Stupid Tattoo
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Uses Galilean Transformation to End NFL Seahawks Drama
- Olympic Ban on Russia Shows What Happens When Doping Science Gets Sloppy
- Why Cats Show You Their Butt, According to Science
- Massive Skeleton Suggests Ancient Americans Butchered Wooly Mammoths
- Why You Can Hear How Delicious Champagne is, According to Science
- "Kissing Disease" Study Reveals Why Mono Hits Some Lovers Hard
- Jupiter's Weirdest Moon Looks Better Than Ever for Finding Aliens
- Ryan Shazier's "Spinal Contusion" Is an Extremely Dangerous Bruise
- Nat Geo's True-Crime Gorilla Murder Mystery Is Based on a True Story
- Instagram Is Cracking Down on People Who Take Wildlife #Selfies
- Why Did NASA Wake Up This Interstellar Spacecraft After 37 Years?
- ‘Bears Ears’ Isn't the Only National Monument Trump's Plan Will Crush
- 'John Wick' Pigeon Secret Service Totally Plausible, Bird Study Suggests
- Woman Born Without Uterus Gives Birth to Healthy Baby, a U.S. Medical First
- This Drunk Opossum Actually Teaches an Important Lesson in Biology
- This Is a Scientifically Determined Playlist for Tripping
- What Causes Turbulence? The Chaotic Physics Mystery on Every Flight
- The Delaware Earthquake Was a 5.1 Before It Was a 4.4
- Viral Snow-Loving Pup Illustrates the Science of Dog "Zoomies"
- Gravitational Waves Could Help Scientists Solve A Major Black Hole Mystery
- 'Stranger Things' Steve's Perfect Hair Can Be Explained With Ancient Math
- Rare Surveillance Videos Show Territorial Pandas Taking Back Their Land
