December 2018 Science Articles
- China's Lunar Landing Rivals Ultima Thule for NYE's Biggest Space Event
- NASA's New Horizons New Year's Eve Party Involves Queen's Brian May
- New Year's Eve: Listen to Your Champagne Bubbles to Tell How Good It Is
- Doctors Identified Risk Factors for a Potentially Violent Sleep Disorder
- The 25 Most "WTF" Science Stories of 2018
- Climate Change Is Damaging Human Mental Health, and It Will Continue To
- Not Aliens: How an 'Arc Flash' Turned the New York City Sky Electric Blue
- Government Shutdown Bumps Live Stream of New Horizons Flyby of Ultima Thule
- Japan Will Leave the International Whaling Commission, Resume Hunts in 2019
- Octopuses High on MDMA Gave Each Other Eight-Armed Hugs
- What Is a Sound Map? Why Scientists Study Coyote Calls in National Parks
- The 25 Most Surprising Human Discoveries Made in 2018
- Avangard: Russia's Hypersonic Glider Is "Invulnerable" to Missile Defense
- Anak Krakatau: Indonesia Officials "Anticipate a Further Escalation"
- Cloud Seeding: Why Scientists Are Trying to Make It Snow
- How to Make the Perfect Melt in Your Mouth Chocolate, According to Science
- Ancient Mummy Mistaken for a Hawk Was Actually a Human Baby
- White Mars: Why Snow on the Red Planet May Be More Possible Than You Think
- Which Month Has the Most Birthdays? Why Winter Is Breeding Season
- Ultima Thule: NASA Probe Spots A Mystery En Route To The Outer Solar System
- What Happens if Your Dog Accidentally Gets Drunk This Christmas?
- What Is "Topophilia"? Why There's No Place Like Home for Christmas
- There's No Need to Freak Out Over Russia and China's Atmospheric Experiment
- A 5-Foot Tapeworm Grew Inside a Man Because He Ate Too Much Raw Salmon
- How to Avoid Food Poisoning This Christmas, According to a Microbiologist
- A Teen's New App Reduces Awkward Bathroom Encounters and Promotes Health
- A Woman Died From "Apitherapy," a Bee Acupuncture Treatment
- Winter Solstice: How Indigenous Peoples Honor the Shortest Day of the Year
- Pulmonary Lobectomy: Ruth Bader Ginsburg's Surgery, Explained
- DNA Twisted Into a Never-Before-Seen Shape in a Living Cell: The i-Motif
- Winter Solstice: 2018's Longest Night Ushers in Full Moon and Ursid Meteors
- The Mystery of Wombats' Cube-Shaped Poop Has Finally Been Solved
- California Meteor: "Noctilucent" Meteor Cloud is Rare, Say Meteorologists
- Video Shows Innovative "Brain Needle" With a Surprise Feature
- Ancient White Stuff in Egyptian Tomb Turned Out to Be World's Oldest Cheese
- Cargo Ships Are the World's Biggest Polluters — but No One Wants to Fix It
- Infertility Isn't the Only Problem for Men With Low Sperm Counts
- THC in Marijuana Changes Sperm Count and Sperm's Genetic Profile
- Farout: Pink Dwarf Planet Is Farthest Object Ever Spotted in Solar System
- World's Plastic Trash Could Stretch Between Earth and the Moon 5,790 Times
- Neanderthals Passed Down Life-Saving Genes to Their Human Hybrid Children
- Saturn's Rings: Video Reveals How Quickly the Iconic Features Are Vanishing
- Mona Lisa's Enigmatic Smile Explained by a Common Medical Condition
- Pterosaur Study Pushes Back the Origin of Feathers by 70 Million Years
- NASA Video on the Death of Our Sun Will Cure Your Holiday Existential Dread
- Scientists Discover That Matching Brain Waves Can Predict Friendships
- 'Into the Spider-Verse': Parallel Universes Explained by Physicists
- Woolly Monkeys Are at Risk of Extinction — How Scientists Plan to Save Them
- Scientists Killed the Kilogram in 2018, Long Live the Kilogram
- Fake vs. Real Christmas Trees: Which Option Is Better for the Environment?
- Why Do Dogs Live Shorter Lives Than Humans? Science Explains
- High School Senior's Genius Plan to Grow Space Broccoli Made It to the ISS
- Giant Hogweed Burned the Heck Out of Americans in 2018
- Comet 46P: Stunning Time-Lapse Is a Preview of Its Green Peak on Sunday
- WTF, Condom Challenge: Teens Started Snorting Condoms and Doctors Got Mad
- Can Alcohol Be Healthy? Study Claims No Amount of Booze Is Good for You
- The Renewable Energy Company You Should Know About
- Mars InSight Lander: New Images Show It With an Alien Green Glow from Space
- How Forensic Blow Flies Helped Solve a Gruesome Vegas Murder Case
- Why Time Travel May Be More Possible Than You Think, According to Physics
- Are Depression and Insomnia Linked? Study Found a Connection in the Brain
- Parker Solar Probe Snaps Hellscape Photo From Inside the Sun's Corona
- NASA Works Out "Visit Details" After Steph Curry Admits Moon Landing Gaffe
- Geminid Meteor Shower: The Dark Reason Tonight's May Be the Best One Ever
- Neanderthal Genes Explain the Roundness of Modern Human Brains
- A Newly Discovered Ecosystem Rivals the Amazon in Diversity
- Comet 46P: How to Catch the Christmas Comet at Its Brightest This Week
- CDC Identifies the Drug Responsible for the Most Overdose Deaths in the US
- Trump's EPA Plans to Eliminate Obama-Era Rule to Protect Drinking Water
- Antarctica Residents Reveal Psychological Toll Mars Colonists Will Face
- In 'Paris to Pittsburgh,' Filmmakers Pair Horror With Hope
- 'Game of Thrones' Season 8: GoT Survival Researcher Shares Top Picks
- Here's an Ear Growing on an Arm Thanks to the US Army
- Department of the Interior: UCS Report Documents Anti-Science Actions
- Steph Curry Called Out by Educators for Moon Landing Conspiracy Theory
- Hypnotic Slow-Motion Video Shows How Scientists Made Lava Explode in a Lab
- These Sheets Use Science to Fix the Grossest Part of Laying in Bed
- Astronaut's Video of Rocket Launch From Space Showed Only Start of Journey
- Bennu: NASA Knew About Water 1 Month Before OSIRIS-REx Approached Asteroid
- An Oklahoma High Schooler Changed the Rules of Organic Chemistry
- Designer Babies: Why They Are the Future Nobody Wants
- Voyager 2 Just Became the Second Spacecraft to Ever Leave Our Solar System
- Catnip: Plant That Gets Cats High Could Help Make Human Cancer Drugs
- What Happens When Facial Recognition Is Used on Birds? Science Explains
- Why Climate Change May Soon Make Seaweed No Longer Safe to Eat
- Tennessee Teen Sent a Box of Human Teeth to the ISS on a SpaceX Rocket
- NASA Time-Lapse Shows Aral Sea Rapidly Vanishing Over the Past 50 Years
- Fake News Study: Religious Fundamentalists Are More Likely to Believe
- Human Mini-Brains Implanted in Mice Integrated With Their Animal Hosts
- What Is the SCA7 Disease? Why Scientists May Be One Step Closer to a Cure
- Viral Image Shows Patient Coughed Up a Blood Clot in the Shape of His Lung
- Liverwort Can Get You High Almost Like Weed, Say Super Chill Scientists
- Baby Laughter Is More Similar to Chimp Giggles Than Their Parents' Chuckles
- Gorilla Study Reveals Surprising Reason Why Males Bond With Infants
- Glaciers Supporting Local Communities in South America Are Melting Fast
- Doctors Found a Simple Strategy for Curbing Post-Operative Opioid Use
- An Enormous Murmuration of Starlings Eclipsed the Sky Over Rome
- Greenland Ice Sheet Hits Highest Melting Rates in 350 Years, Study Shows
- SETI Evidence Disproves Harvard Theory That 'Oumuamua Is an Alien Probe
- Climate Clock: The Countdown to 1.5 Degrees Celsius
- What's Your Personality Type? Scientists Argue You're 1 Out of 4
- Mice That Went to Space Came Back With Compromised Immune Systems
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Mocks Apple for Anatomically Incorrect Squid Emoji
- 5,000-Year-Old Strain of the Plague Hints at Ancient Origin of Human Killer
- Baby Formula Makers Blamed for 500% Increase in Cows' Milk Protein Allergy
- Why Do I Want to Bite Baby Toes? Study Shows Neural Root of Cute Aggression
- Misidentified Ancient Ritual Burial Sites Turned Out to Be Hominin Buffets
- Origin of Human Language Began With Cave Art, Scientists Theorize
- Lonesome George DNA Analysis Reveals the Secrets to Becoming a Centenarian
- Here’s What Comes Next for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Now That It's Reached Bennu
- Our Ancestors Hooked Up With Multiple Species of Ancient Humans
- Grass Got Kangaroos So High on DMT They Couldn't Walk Straight
- China's President Xi Jinping Promises Trump He Will Crack Down on Fentanyl
- Why Declining Snow Cover May Indicate Greater Environmental Damage to Come
- Ocean Pollution: New Study Reveals Quick Rate of Nanoplastic Absorption
- NASA's Historic 2-Year Journey to Bennu Is All for One Unprecedented Sample
- Are You Dating a Psychopath? Signs to Look for, According to Science
- Sahana Srinivasan of "Brainchild" Is Ready to Be an Inspiration
- Saline Belt: Why Salt Is Destroying the Farming Industry
- Viral Fat Macaque, "Uncle Fat," Is Actually Much Better Off Now
- Verity Life Sciences Is Releasing Millions of Mosquitos to Fight Zika Virus
- Great Blue Hole: Cousteau and Branson to Map World's Largest Sinkhole
