February 2016 Science Articles
- Here Are Some 2017 Oscar Predictions, So You Don't Have to Think About Them
- NASA's Newest X-Plane Will Be a Quieter Supersonic Jet
- Report: NASA Will Launch a Venus Rover in 2023
- Scientists Crack the Case of "Missing Matter" in the Universe
- How to Make a Better Leap Year With Math
- How a Pot Smoking Moon Monkey Mural Got a Portland Weed Dispensary in a Jam
- Astronaut Jeff Williams: "I Wouldn’t Say I’m Nervous" About Fourth Trip to Space
- Your Beagle Might Be Able to See Earth’s Magnetic Field Like a Bird
- Researchers Assess Huge Damage Costs From Rising Sea Levels
- 'Shark Tank' Bets on BetterBack but Passes on Bad Ass, Beeping Bike Lock
- Indonesia Vows to Sink Rogue Fishing Boat for Poaching Sea Bass
- SETI Institute Scientists Now Available for Consulting Services
- Buycott Is an App to Help You Boycott Your Least-Favorite Food Corporations
- Can SkyFi Really Give the Entire World Free Internet?
- NASA Promises Its Future "X-Planes" Will Be Leaner & Greener
- The Apollo-Saturn 201 Launched 50 Years Ago Today
- Do You Give a Shit About Your Eyesight? Then Don't Get an Eyeball Tattoo
- Win Your Office Oscar Pool With These Vegas Odds
- Quantum Darwinism Is Where Natural Selection Meets Quantum Mechanics
- "I Could Go Another 100 Days": Astronaut Scott Kelly Reflects on His Year In Space
- Ted Cruz Is the Zodiac Killer, and Other Conspiracy Theories With Tim Faust
- Urbanization in Dubai Caused a 3-Degree Temperature Spike in Just a Decade
- Could Russia and India Beat the U.S. to Mars by Working Together?
- Mysterious Ocean Buzzing Linked to Massive Deep Sea Migration
- Debate Over the Famous "Wow! Signal" -- Aliens or a Comet? -- Continues
- International Regulators Want to Stop Lake Erie's Toxic Algae Blooms
- Plan to Release Hundreds of Rattlesnakes on Island Isn’t Flawed the Way You Think It Is
- Your Carbon Footprint Now Counts All the Stuff You Buy From China
- New Drone Footage Shows How Area 51's Secrets Stay Hidden in a Nevada Valley
- Astronomers Are Scanning Gobs of Pulsars to Hunt for Gravitational Waves
- Marijuana Tourists Are Filling Up Colorado's Hospital Emergency Rooms
- A Bit of Your Brain Thinks Legos Are Real
- Why We Might Be Closer to Finding the Mysterious Planet Nine
- Massive Space Fireball Punches Earth With the Force of 13,000 Tons of TNT
- Best Way to Survive a Bear Attack? Don't Accidentally Step to a Damn Bear
- ‘The Light Between Oceans’ Is Pure Uncut Weepy Oscar Bait. It Looks Great.
- Most of the World's Wetlands Will Soon Drown as Ocean Levels Rise
- The Quantum Zeno Effect Explains How You Can Stop Time Using Physics
- Quantum Suicide Lets Physicists Prove the Multiverse Theory or Die Trying
- Scientists Fight for Their Right to Import Research Monkeys
- How Chemistry Might Explain Donald Trump's Weird Orange Skin
- NASA Engineers Envision 3-Day Trip to Mars Using Photonic Laser Rockets
- Watch Sir David Attenborough Chill With a Ghost Titanosaur in a 360-Degree Video
- Science Says Earth is One of 700 Quintillion Planets in the Universe
- Japan’s New X-Ray Observatory Will Search for Extreme Violence in Deep Space
- Golf Industrial Complex Loves Bioluminescent Trees, Can Bankroll Bio-Engineering
- The Adorable Tanuki Raccoon Dogs the Internet Worships Have a Horrible History
- NASA Is Hunting El Niño Storms With a Special Military-Grade Drone
- How NOAA Went From Hopeless to High Tech
- Wikileaks Reveals the NSA Spied on World Leaders' Secret Meetings
- 3D Printing Turned This Captive Parrot Into a Titanium-Beaked Cyborg
- 'Far Cry Primal''s Stone Age Setting Delivers Brutally Wonderful Battles
- NASA's 'Mars 2030 VR Experience' Will Strand You on Mars
- Check Out This Jaw-Dropping Gas Plume Trailing a Nearby Galaxy
- The De-Extinction of Woolly Mammoths Would Be a Big Steppe Toward Saving Humans
- Space Tourism on Earth: The 7 Dark Sky Reserves to Visit Right Now
- Scott Kelly Starts Countdown to the End of His Epic Year in Space
- Apollo Astronauts Heard Music from Far Side of the Moon in Lost Tapes
- Complicated, Record-Breaking Mir Space Station Launched 30 Years Ago Today
- NASA's Juno Mission Invites Citizen Astronomers to Help Explore Jupiter
- How a 5-Dimensional Black Hole Could Break Down General Relativity
- Here’s What a Massive Ancient Flood on Mars Left Behind
- NASA Called for Astronauts, and Americans Applied in Record Numbers
- Pluto's Moon Charon Has a Chasm That Makes the Grand Canyon Look Like a Scratch
- 50 Million Years Ago the Arctic Was a Rainforest Populated by Giant Birds
- Enhancing Children's Gut Bacteria Could Save Them From Malnutrition
- Officials Have Trapped Loose Lions in Nairobi and Returned Them to the Park
- New Fossil Evidence Points to a Geological Reason Humans and Chimps Split
- Hangover Coffee Might Be Saving Your Liver
- Cygnus, a Garbage-Filled Space Cargo Vessel, Leaves the ISS for Fiery Doom
- 'Gattaca'-Style Genetic Screening for Space Flight Is Inevitable, but Reversible
- Are Comets Fluffy or Holey? Space Miners of the Future Need to Know!
- 3D Printing Gives Ötzi the Iceman a Plastic and Resin Clone
- Who Gets the Most Sleep in America? People Who Are White, College-Educated, and Married
- NASA Is Building This Powerful Telescope to Unlock the Secrets of Dark Energy
- NASA Just Found the Thrusters That Will (Probably) Send Astronauts to Mars
- The "Hairy Panic" Tumbleweed Flood in Australia Isn't Caused by Global Warming
- TED Prize Winner Wants Us All to Be Space Archaeologists
- Watch New Video of NASA's Gigantic 'Orion' Spacecraft
- Climate Change-Denying MIT Prof. Richard Lindzen Is Suddenly Popular, Still Wrong
- The Satellite That Just Went Into Space Is a "Quantum Leap" in Technology
- Should You Care Where Superheroes Are Going? | Ask an Algorithm
- Here's How the Sun Vaporizes Asteroids
- ExoMars 2016 Mission Videos Offer New Visions of the Red Planet
- FDA: The Woody Notes in Your Parmesan Cheese Come From Actual Wood
- Dinosaurs Will Be Resurrected by 2050, Awesome British Think Tank Predicts
- Russia's Plan to Blow Up Space Rocks Has a Debris Problem
- Science Can Predict If You Will Go Crazy When You Smoke Weed
- Watch Idris Elba Break Stuff in the New 'Bastille Day' Trailer
- Watch Thousands of Sharks Show Up for Spring Break in Florida
- Nerf's New Blasters Shoot 68 Miles Per Hour, but Is It Enough?
- Astronaut Mark Kelly Explains Why You Should Apply to Be an Astronaut: "Good Health Care"
- Baltimore Snorts at Legality of Powdered Alcohol
- Australia's Flesh-Stripping Marsupial Lions Were Real
- NASA's Watch's Keith Cowing Is the Agency's Most Ardent Watchdog
- NASA Says This January Was the Hottest Ever
- Watch 393 Days of the Sun in Six Minutes, 31 Seconds
- In the Era of Flat-Earthers, We Need Galileo More Than Ever
- Human Measures of General Intelligence Also Apply to Dogs
- We've Found a Very Rare "Imposter" Supernova Discovered in a Nearby Galaxy
- Cities of the Future Could Be Crawling With Dangerous Bacteria
- The Fight for CRISPR Is Exposing the Dark Side of the Business of Science
- Broncos' Von Miller Explains Gravitational Waves on 'SNL'
- Science Shows That Bilingual People's Brains Work Differently
- How Planets Form Around a Binary Star
- Three Ways Climate Change Affects the Arctic Real Estate Market
- Apollo 11 Wall Writings Reveal First-Ever Human Space Calendar
- We'll Have Broadband Internet From Outer Space By 2019
- The Sound of Gravitational Waves = the Base Beat for Toronto Hip-Hop
- The Chilean Sky in Ultra High-Definition Is Something to Behold
- Calculating the Difference Between Your Rooftop View and the View From the ISS
- Prescription Medication Mascots Are the Unsung Heroes of Cable TV
- DC's 'Legends of Tomorrow' Proposes Firestorm Deserves Their Own Show
- Darwin Day Isn't Going to Be a Thing Because Congress Is Dumb
- Rosetta Scientists Say Goodbye to Philae Comet Lander
- Planned 630 Miles of French Solar Roads Will Generate 8 Percent of Nation's Energy
- Discovery of Gravitational Waves Gets 1 Minute, 41 Seconds of Time on Evening News
- A Third of U.S. Teachers Tell Students Climate Change Is Natural, Totally Natural
- Scientists Offer New Evidence E-Cigarettes Could Kill You
- "Be the Man You Want to Be": How to Get Dumped Like a Champ
- The Short, Turbulent Life of North Korea's Doomed Satellite
- LIGO Scientists Discover Gravitational Waves, Prove Albert Einstein Right
- Sure, Bernie Sanders Is Cool and All, but Why Doesn't He Know PuppyMonkeyBaby?
- Space Mining Is Going to Accelerate the Military Space Race
- What the Hell to Do About Valentine's Day | ASK AN ALGORITHM
- NASA Jet Propulsion Lab's New Posters Imagine Retro-Futuristic Space Travel
- The Paris Climate Deal Is Already Making a Difference and It Isn't Signed Yet
- Why the Hell Do I Care So Much About Sports?
- We're Closer Than Ever to Finding Out If Dark Matter Exists in the Universe
- Is There a Beyoncé and Missy Elliott Collab Coming?
- Utah Senator Mark Madsen, a Mormon, Fiercely Backs Medical Marijuana
- MIT Researchers Discover Sneeze Mechanism Through Slow-Motion Videos
- Watch 'The New York Times' and PBS Blow the Lid Off Fantasy Sports Gambling
- Scandinavia's Pursuit of Happiness Is About Big Taxes, Contentment, and Old Feuds
- The Evolution of Animals Being Dicks: Play and Aggression Minus Murder
- A Meteorite Probably Didn't Kill That Man in India
- NASA Chief Says "Mars Does Matter" During State of NASA Address in Virginia
- Martian Lakes Might Have Been Home to Ancient Aliens
- Asteroid Day Aims to "Protect Our Planet" From "1 Million" Asteroids
- Researchers Spawn Compressible, Cockroach-Inspired Robots
- Where Will Humans Be When Halley's Comet Passes by in 2062?
- Murder on the Moon, Is it a Crime?
- NASA's James Webb Telescope Is More Powerful Than Even NASA Thought
- Breakup Science Says You Should Never, Ever, Ever Get Back Together
- Scientists Have Discovered Hundreds of Galaxies Hiding Behind the Milky Way
- Do Hypercritical Parents Cause Persistent ADHD?
- Chipotle Blames Salmonella Outbreak on Tomatoes and Sick Workers
- Israel's "Spy Vulture" Captured In Lebanon: Not a Spy, Definitely a Vulture
- What's Behind the Upcoming Gravitational Waves Announcement?
- Tired People Are Much, Much More Likely to Sign a False Confession
- Who Was the "Woo" Guy at the Super Bowl?
- This 360° Mars Video With Oculus Rift Technology Puts You in Curiosity's Shoes
- Are "Super Bowl Babies" a Result of Football-Induced Testosterone Spikes?
- Here's How Power Blackouts in a City Change the Weather Forecast
- Watch the Best Super Bowl Movie Ads Featuring 'Batman vs. Superman' and More
- Colbert Plays Catch with Scott Kelly, President Obama, and Chewbacca
- Scott Kelly Takes Photo of Super Bowl From Space, Almost
- FAA to Super Bowl Goers: "Leave Your Drones at Home"
- Beyonce Uses Super Bowl Eve to Drop Powerful "Formation" Video
- 'Animals' Perfectly Capture Humans' Party-Related Anxieties
- Awesome Dallas Just Made Daily Recess Mandatory for Elementary Kids
- Science Explains Why the Puppy Bowl Is a Perfectly Legit Super Bowl Tradition
- Pluto’s Nitrogen Ice Glaciers Have Floating Hills Made of Ice
- This Sea Lion Pup Walked Into a Restaurant and It Was Adorable and Sad
- 'Far Cry Primal''s Charge Trailer Embraces the Obvious
- How 16th Century Inventors Kickstarted the Space Race
- Being a 'Legend of Tomorrow' Does Not Allow You to Change the Past
- This Is How Much Sleep America Is Losing Every Second
- New Footage of Largest Shark Ever Filmed Released
- Motorboat Noise Stresses Out Fish So Much They Are More Vulnerable to Predators
- Being Too Tired Can Make You Facebook Crazy
- Ancient Forests Burn in Tasmania, Some Blame Climate Change
- Congress Tells NASA It Needs to Draft a Real Plan for a Mars Mission
- NASA Crews Install Final Mirror Segment of the James Webb Space Telescope
- Michelin Challenge Design Yields Futuristic Vehicles for the Developing World
- Marijuana Industry Execs Want Young Professionals, Emphasis on "Professional"
- NASA's "Greased Lightning" Drone Is Quieter Than a Lawn Mower and Has 360-Degree Vision
- Trigger Warning: Science Can Explain Why You Get Offended
- Video Shows a Year of the World’s Weather
- "Jurassic Butterfly:" Ancient Insect Shows Modern Qualities
- IOM Deems "Three-Parent Babies" Morally Acceptable
- We Ate Burger King's Butter Burger and There's Definitely Not Butter in That
- Are Aliens Behind These Strange Mars "Cauliflower" Structures?
- The 10 Most-Celebrated Actors and Filmmakers Who Haven’t Won Oscars
- How a Mapmaker Who Rejects Cartography Can Help You Find Yourself
- Luxembourg's Push Into Asteroid Mining Forecasts the Next U.S. Space Race
- These Black Hole Jets Put the Death Star to Shame
- Mountain Dew's #PuppyMonkeyBaby Is Super Bowl 50's Nightmare Mascot
- Why the Super Bowl May Kill Grandmas in Denver
- NASA Wants You to Design a Satellite
- This Mumbai Garbage Fire Is So Huge You Can See it From Space
- Scientists Find Cold Grains of Matter in "Flying Saucer" Object in Space
- Meet the Cool Satellites That NASA Will Send Into Space
- Groundhog Day Is Bullshit
- Here Are the Reasons the Beyoncé and Coldplay Video Is Being Criticized for Appropriation
- Why Does a Brain Have Folds? There's Not Enough Room In Your Skull
- Nacreous Clouds Light Up British Skies, Signal Our Doom
- Ocean Plastics Are Dampening Oyster Sex
- Pope Francis Can Ease the Zika Epidemic by Allowing Contraception
- NASA: Hackers Didn’t "Compromise" Our Drone
- What If O.J. Simpson Was a Close Friend of the Family? He Was for Me.
- Behold, NASA's Massive Super Guppy Aircraft Delivering the Orion Spacecraft to Florida
- NASA Has Uploaded This Video Ahead of Wednesday's All-Russian Spacewalk
- Why Chipotle's E. Coli Outbreak Will Go Unsolved
- Probable Microcephaly Link Has Officially Pushed Zika Virus to a 'Global Emergency'
- 'Ant Simulator' Developers Blew Their Entire Budget on Strippers and Booze
- Data Dump Allegedly Shows Hackers Tried to Crash a $222 Million NASA Drone
- NASA Shares 360° Image of Mars Made With Facebook's Oculus Rift Technology
- NTSB Proposes Lower Legal Drinking and Driving Limit
