December 2017 Science Articles
- 2018 Will Start Out With Two Supermoons
- How Supermoons Kill Motorcyclists, According to Scientists
- 2017 and Science: 8 Moments That Were Really Bad
- Doctors Treat PTSD by Letting Patients Listen to Their Own Brainwaves
- The First Full Moon of 2018 Will Be More Than Just a Supermoon
- Year in Review: The 25 Most-Read Inverse Science Stories of 2017
- 10 Facts About Space to Impress Your Friends and Family
- New Giant Octopus Species Found, Cephalopods Dupe Scientists Again
- Reddit Video of Komodo Dragon Eating a Monkey is Totally Normal
- 'The Simpsons' Shut Down Trump's Climate Change Tweet 8 Years Ago
- Scientists Show CBD From Cannabis Treats Schizophrenia, Psychosis
- In Prisoner Dilemma Study, Threat of Punishment Doesn't Make Peace
- "Leidenfrost Effect" Lets Reddit Hero Pass Hand Under Molten Metal
- When Is the First Big Meteor Shower of 2018? The Quadrantids Are Near
- A Physicist Tries to Teach Kids String Theory Using Music
- Should You Actually Get a Flu Shot? It Isn't Too Late for 2017
- The Weirdest Science Moments of 2017, in Pictures
- 10 Science Tweets That Sum Up 2017
- What Holiday Plants Can Hurt Dogs, Besides Poinsettias
- What's the Christmas Tree Cluster, According to Science
- Why Do Cats Like Christmas Trees? A Scientist Explains
- Skull-like "Halloween Asteroid" Will Return to Earth in 2018
- Are Deer Antlers Key to Peak Health? Not in the Way Putin Hopes
- Holdo's Hyperdrive Scene in 'Last Jedi' Is Plausible, Physicists Say
- Everything We'll See Scientists in the U.S. Tackle in 2018
- Science Explains How Air in Frat House Registered on Breathalyzer
- Giant Stone Hats Reveal Secrets of Easter Island Inhabitants
- 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi': The Biology of its Animals, Porgs and All
- Five-Year Study Reveals Stunning Stat About Dogs and Chocolate
- Chemistry Explains How Beet Juice Makes Ice and Snow Melt
- 'Game of Thrones' Climate Model Explains Long Westeros Winters
- California Scientists Identified 85 New Species in 2017
- Oh Spelacchio! Why Rome's Christmas Tree Might Be Its Losing Needles
- Gulf Corvina Fish Sex is So Loud It Could Deafen Other Animals
- Orgasm Study Reveals Why the Prostate Really is the 'Male G-Spot'
- Why You Get Tired When It's Dark
- After 3-Year Ban, NIH Approves Studies on the Deadliest Viruses
- Oldest Fossils On Earth Are 3.5 Billion Years Old, Scientists Claim
- What Are Homeopathic Drugs? Here's How the FDA Plans to Combat Goop
- The Scientific Reason Why Cedar Keeps Moths Away From Old Clothes
- Ketamine Rapidly Reduces Depressive Symptoms and Suicidal Thoughts
- Evidence of Martian Life Is Likely Under the Crust, Say Scientists
- December's New Moon Makes Tonight the Darkest Night of the Year
- Sleep Scientists Want Insomniacs to Wear Glasses Like Guy Fieri
- Why Do Bears Like Sweets? Ancient Bones Reveal Sugar-Crazy Ancestor
- Ancient Mammoth Bones Purchase for $646,000 for Company's Lobby
- Uranus Got Its Moons in a Surprisingly Violent Way
- The "Evaporating Exoplanet" GJ436b Just Got Even More Mysterious
- Brexit Should Not Force British to Eat Dirty American Chickens
- California Health Department Warns About Cell Phone Radiation
- Male Virgins Can Get a Common STD Even If They Haven't Had Sex
- Why Monkeys Humping Deer Shouldn’t Surprise You
- Hypnosis Can Induce Some Forms of Synesthesia, Say Scientists
- Upper Body Strength Is Biggest Factor in Male Attractiveness
- Ryan Shazier Starts Rehab for Spinal Injury But Still Hospitalized
- What Is Kepler-90i? What We Know About Newly Discovered Exoplanet
- FDA Slams Legal Lean, Producers of Coco Loko Snorting Chocolate
- NASA Discovers New Planet in Kepler-90 System, Thanks to Google A.I.
- Will Sex Robots Replace Humans?
- Glowing, Energy Saving, 'Avatar'-Like Plants Shine for 4 Hours
- NASA Announcement Today: Three Scientists Give Kepler Theories
- David Attenborough Warns: Sixth Mass Extinction Is Imminent
- Greenland's 512-Year-Old Shark: Here's What It Looks Like
- Study Finds That Wine Glass Size Grew by 531 Percent in 300 Years
- CDC Estimates Show the Flu is Actually Deadlier Than We Thought
- Peter Thiel is Backing Magic Mushrooms to Treat Depression
- NASA MAVEN: Mars Probe Could Help Reveal Where Aliens Are Hiding
- What if Earth Had Rings Like Saturn? Scientists Explain
- Editors of Nature Journals Warn Against Loss of Net Neutrality
- There's a Healthy Way to Be a Workaholic, Say Scientists
- Ancient Penguin Known as 'Monster Bird' Could Have Crushed People
- New Image of a "Stellar Nursery" is Majestic But Also Terrifying
- 'The Clean Energy Revolution' Depicts James Redford's 'New Normal'
- What Time Is the Geminid Meteor Shower Tonight? How to See It
- New Horizons: Next Target 2014 MU69 of NASA Probe Might Hide A Secret
- Macron's "Make Our Planet Great Again" Plan Began With Trump's Brain Drain
- Santa's Reindeer Would Be Females, Scientist Explains
- This Tick Frozen in Amber Trolled Dinosaurs 100 Million Years Ago
- Here's What Internet Pioneers Told Congress About Saving Net Neutrality
- Peru's Chachapoyas Were Not Forced Out by Incas, Say Scientists
- Chemists Find New Evidence That Life Might Have Started in Space
- Italy's Oldest Humans Are More Mentally Healthy Than Physically Fit
- Man Flu Is the Result of a Weak Immune System, Not a Weak Man
- Are We Becoming Less Violent? 'War Group' Study Says It's Unlikely
- Chris Evans Sums Up the State of Science With a Black Hole Tweet
- Space Camp's Craziest Simulator Won't Make You Barf
- Humans Will Never Get More Physically Perfect Than NBA Players
- Thomas Fire: How to Protect Yourself from Unhealthy Air Quality
- Jets From Active Galactic Nucleus Could Collide With Clouds to Form Stars
- New Study Puts Number on the Deadliness of Window Blinds
- Apple Watch Relieves Cancer Patients of a Major Burden, Study Finds
- Trump's Daily Dozen Diet Cokes: The Science of that Much Soda
- Video of a Dying Polar Bear Previews Extinction, Says Biologist
- This Biotech Company Can Put Your Loved Ones' DNA in Your Tattoo
- Bill Nye Reveals the Best Planet — It's Not What You'd Expect
- Official Lil Peep Death Certificate Reveals Death by Xanax, Fentanyl
- Large-Scale Acupuncture Study Shows Significant Effect on Pain
- Eyes Confuse Waves and Zig-Zags in New Japanese Optical Illusion
- When Everything Is Silent, the Earth Emanates a Mysterious Hum
- Spinal Contusion, Psychological Recovery, and Ryan Shazier's Future
- Ryan Shazier Surgery: Doctors Say “It’s Not Good”
- Ancient Humans Walked "Out of Africa" Multiple Times, Says Study
- The Problem With a Starbucks Christmas Tree Frappuccino
- Salk Institute Geneticists Show How to Alter Diseased DNA
- This Supermassive Black Hole Is a "Rare Relic from the Early Universe"
- America's Invasive Plants Can Spread Way Further Than We Thought
- Nobel Winner Retracts Own Paper in 'Definitely Embarrassing' Fail
- Netflix's 'Bill Nye' Season 2 Trailer Highlights Medical Marijuana
- Rare Torosaurus Skeleton Mistaken for More Common Triceratops
- Ryan Shazier's Spinal Contusion Is Not a Rare NFL Back Injury
- Alien Life on the Exoplanet Behind "Super-Earth" K2-18b? Maybe
- 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 Drama
- Russia Was Banned from the Olympics Because of Sloppy Doping Science
- Why Do Cats Show You Their Butts? A Scientist Explains
- Huge Skeleton Suggests Ancient Americans Butchered Wooly Mammoths
- The Sound of Champagne Can Determine its Quality, Scientists Say
- "Kissing Disease" Study Reveals Why Mono Hits Some Lovers Hard
- Alien Life on Jupiter's Moon Europa? It May Have Plate Tectonics
- What Is a Spinal Contusion? The Seriousness of Ryan Shazier's Injury Rises
- Nat Geo Blends True Crime With Gorilla Science in 'Dian Fossey'
- Instagram Is Cracking Down on People Who Take Wildlife Selfies
- Why Did NASA Fire Up Voyager 1 Thrusters After 37 Years? Scientist Explains
- ‘Bears Ears’ Is First of Many National Monuments Trump Will Crush
- How Homing Pigeons Navigate the Earth, Bird Psychologists Explain
- Woman Born Without Uterus Gives Birth in U.S. Medical Victory
- Opossum Breaks Into Florida Liquor Store, Teaches Valuable Biology Lesson
- Here's Scientist Bill Richards's Playlist for Tripping on Mushrooms
- What Causes Turbulence? The Chaotic Physics Mystery on Every Flight
- Why the Magnitude of Delaware's Earthquake Changed from 5.1 to 4.4
- Dog 'Zoomies' Explain the Science Behind Viral Snow-Loving Dog
- Gravitational Waves Could Help Scientists Understand Primordial Black Holes
- 'Stranger Things' Steve's Hair Can Be Explained With Ancient Math
- Rare Panda Surveillance Videos Show Them Marking Lost Territory
