February 2017 Science Articles
- Donald Trump Will Call For a Return of Human Space Exploration
- Sleep Scientists Say NFL Scouting Combine Competitors Should Hurry to Bed
- Safe and Ethical Ways to Edit the Human Genome
- Mount Etna Breaks 2-Year Silence With Sudden Lava Bursts
- NASA is Recruiting Scientists to Save Astronaut Eyeballs
- The Destructive Life of a Mardi Gras Bead
- Blink-182 Ex-Frontman Tom Delonge Awarded UFO Research Prize
- SpaceX's Moon Mission Doesn't Mean NASA is Dropping the Space Launch System
- NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Sees Dust Devils Restyle Sand Patterns
- Supercool Water's Physics-Defying Traits Remain a Mystery
- "Resting Bitch Face" Is Determined by Your Name, According to Scientists
- Scientists Propose Plan to Study the Asteroid Belt for Alien Life
- What We Know About SpaceX's Falcon Heavy Rocket for its Moon Mission
- The 5 Best Nights to See Mars in 2017
- Here's How Much a Ticket on a SpaceX Flight to the Moon Will Cost
- Hydrogen From Extraterrestrial Volcanoes Could Support Alien Life
- How SpaceX Plans to Fly Two People Around the Moon
- 5 Key Dates in SpaceX's 2018 Moon Mission Announcement
- The Best Space Documentaries on Netflix
- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Hype Strategy is Cryptic Tweets
- 'Moonlight' Star Alex Hibbert Is Science Activism's Newest Spokesperson
- Stellar Carnage by Black Holes Is More Violent Than We Thought
- Ariana Grande's "Everyday" Video Raises Scientific Questions About Public Sex
- Molecular Cloud RCW106 is a Breeding Ground for Stars
- The 2017 Oscars Were a Platform for Science And Iranian Excellence
- Astronomers Find a Real-Life Tatooine-Like Star System
- Office Gossip Can Actually Make Your Job More Secure, Study Suggests
- Scientists Use Brain-Imaging Headbands to Measure Understanding
- Elon Musk Tweets There Will be a SpaceX Announcement Monday
- Real-Life Tornado Trackers Honor Late 'Twister' Star Bill Paxton
- Scientists Say Hospital Sinks Spread Drug-Resistant Bacteria
- How and When to See the "Southern Ring of Fire" Annular Eclipse
- Scientists Discover Hollywood's Recipe for Making People Cry
- NASA's Testing Lockheed Martin's New X-Plane in a Tiny Wind Tunnel
- Saturn's Dark 'Gaps' Look Completely Different in These New Images
- UFO Sightings Are on the Rise. Here Are Possible Reasons Why
- Did the Trump Administration Push NASA to Consider Crewed Orion Mission?
- James Powell Wants to Make a Hyperloop-Style Rocket Launcher
- What Is the Oscars Red Carpet Made Of?
- Where's the Mars Colonization Plan? Beneath Outdated Space Treaties
- We Taught Bees to Play Soccer to Learn About Their Brain
- 30 Years After Its Discovery, This Titanic Supernova is Still a Captivating Marvel
- Neil deGrasse Tyson Claps Back at Kyrie Irving's Flat Earth Conspiracy
- The 6 Best Science Documentaries on Netflix, Ranked
- How the Oscars Can Be Recycled Into Bronze Age Weapons and More
- What Metal Passes as Adamantium In 'Logan' Hydraulic Press Commercial?
- NASA's X-Hab Contest Asks College Kids to Help Explore Deep Space
- The Best Space Documentaries on Netflix in March 2017
- The Elysium Volcano on Mars Unveils Earth-Like Complexity
- The 12 Best Nature and Climate Change Documentaries on Netflix Right Now
- Psychology Explains Why Everyone Is Obsessed With Justin Trudeau's Butt
- Hockey Player's Ice Allergy Is Not a Medical Anomaly
- SETI Astronomer Seth Shostak Weighs in on Prospect of Aliens in TRAPPIST-1 System
- Smart Teens at Higher Risk of Smoking Weed and Drinking Alcohol, Study Shows
- ESA Finds Brightest, Farthest Known Pulsar X-1 in NGC 5907 Galaxy
- EVE Online Players Could Find More Habitable Exoplanets
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to Look for New Earth Around TRAPPIST-1
- How Rural America Is Dealing With Climate Change
- These Maps Show How Bad It's Become for U.S. Bees
- Scientists Discover the 3 Sex Moves That Help Women Orgasm the Most
- How Birds Evolved From Dinosaurs and Learned How to Fly
- Chimp Study Shows How Social Rejects Become Innovators
- Planets With Elliptical Orbits May Be More Habitable Than We Thought
- Cloning, 20 Years After Dolly
- TRAPPIST-1f Looks a Lot like Vulcan From 'Star Trek'
- SpaceX Finally Gets Its Dragon Vehicle to the Space Station
- These Are a Very Accurate Computer Algorithm's Oscar Predictions for 2017
- TRAPPIST-1 Discovery Gives Exoplanet Research a Giant Leap Forward
- The Science Behind the Crippling Anxiety of Building Ikea Furniture
- Future Homes on Mars Might be 3D Printed, According to NASA
- Ancient Skulls Show Early South Americans Came From Asia
- Harsh UV Rays Might Make Life on a Trappist-1 World Evolve in Some Odd Ways
- NASA’s Tourist Poster for TRAPPIST-1e is Dope as Hell
- Why the TRAPPIST and Spitzer Telescopes Are So Critical to Exoplanet Research
- What We Know About the 3 Habitable Exoplanets Orbiting TRAPPIST-1
- New Study Finds the Nearest Forest is Farther Than You Think
- What Is NASA's Big Exoplanet Announcement About? A Few Theories
- NASA Inches Closer to Greenlighting a Mission to Europa
- NASA Announces Discovery of 7 Exoplanets in TRAPPIST-1 System
- SpaceX Dragon Capsule Aborts ISS Rendezvous, Mice Live Another Day
- Scientists Fail to Find Link Between Cat Parasite and Schizophrenia
- 'Love' Video by Lana Del Rey Depicts Impossible Extraterrestrial World
- I Confronted Existence While VR Meditating With Deepak Chopra
- Roanoke 'AHS': The real story is way scarier than 'American Horror Story'
- Neuroscience Study Shows Humans Are Hardwired to Take the Easy Way Out
- Plan to Make Pluto a Planet Could Result in 110 Planets in Solar System
- UAE Wants to Build a City on Mars by 2117
- How Sara Seager's 2015 TED Talk Previews NASA Exoplanet News
- 99% Of People Don't Want to Know What the Future Holds
- NASA Will Make Big Exoplanet Discovery Announcement Wednesday
- Singapore's 'Fire Rainbow' Is A Gorgeous Mix of Ice and Sunlight
- ALMA Finds a Phoenix Cluster Black Hole Aiding New Star Formation
- How Sea Shepherd Keeps Japanese Whalers in Antarctica on the Run
- U.K. Promises $12.5 Million to Spur Homegrown Commercial Space Industry
- Wooly Mammoth 'De-Extinction' Will Change the Course of Natural History
- 10 Best Nerdy Protest Signs from Boston's #StandupforScience Rally
- Scientists Train Monkeys to Recognize Themselves in Mirrors
- Elon Musk Posts Dramatic Video of Falcon 9 Landing on LZ-1
- Watch SpaceX's Falcon 9 Make First-Ever Day Landing LZ-1 Landing Pad
- NASA Spins Juno's Engine Trouble as "Bonus Science'
- Scientists Use Algorithm to Explain the Beguiling McGurk Effect
- Belle Beats Stockholm Syndrome and Biology in ‘Beauty and the Beast’
- With Pruitt Confirmed, Trump's Assault on the Environment Can Really Begin
- The Story of SpaceX Trips to the ISS is Told in Wondrous Patches
- Elon Musk Says SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Has a Small Leak
- Does Anxiety Cause Premature Ejaculation? Scientists Aren't So Sure
- Fossil Fuel Companies Aren't Disclosing Risks of Climate Change
- Citizen Lawsuits Will Police Pruitt's EPA
- The World's Eighth Continent is Zealandia, Scientists Argue
- Why Donald Trump Does Impressions So Much
- Real Schizophrenia Science Could Be a 'Legion' Spoiler
- GAO Report Outlines Risks for SpaceX and Boeing's ISS Mission Plans
- Hurt Bae Shows Why Men and Women React Differently to Cheating
- Scientists Determined What the Ultimate Attractive Lips Look Like
- Why the "Black Powder" in 'The Great Wall' Was So Valuable
- Complex Organic Molecules Discovered on Ceres for the First Time
- Ocean Discovery XPRIZE Finalists Imagine Swarms of Deep Sea Robots
- NASA Is Trying to Recycle Oxygen Better for Astronauts in Deep Space
- Scientists Quantify Baldness With Gene-Based Predictive Algorithm
- Fast Radio Bursts are the Strangest Signals in the Universe
- The Giant Planet HAT-P-2b is Causing Its Host Star to Pulsate
- The 6 Best Sports Podcasts for Data Junkies
- How Radiation Activates X-23's Mutant Genes In Gritty 'Logan' Teaser
- Martian Dunes Might Be the Best Spot to Find Life on Mars
- The Rosette Nebula Is a Sweet, Sweet Baby-Making Machine
- Here Are the Winners of NASA’s Space Poop Challenge
- Sea Snails are Evolving to Adapt to Higher Pollution
- Ancient Judean Jars Say Earth's Magnetic Field Isn't About to Vanish
- Astronomers Want to Use Cell Phones to Detect Fast Radio Bursts
- Science Says Creative Pickup Lines Outperform Literal Compliments
- Ben Wa Balls in '50 Shades Darker' Are Tools for Sexual Foreplay
- Climate Change-Denying Astronaut to Talk to Congress About NASA's Future
- India Will Launch Record 104 Satellites into Space on Single Rocket
- In 'Experiential Crossing' Study, Readers Hear Voices of Fictional Characters
- 5 Reasons Why Science Can't Figure Out Love Potions
- Asteroid Day Partners Discuss How to Defend Earth from Asteroids
- Why We Physically Feel Love and Heartache in Our Hearts
- The Heart Nebula Creates a Loving Home for Baby Stars
- How MDMA and Psychedelics Salvage Crumbling Relationships
- NASA Has Chosen the Three Finalists for Mars 2020 Landing Site
- Psychology Explains Why the Trudeau-Trump Handshake Was So Awkward
- Female Flies Flirt on Sunny Days
- Bizarre Study Says Finger Ratio is Linked to Sexy Valentine's Day Gift Giving
- Elon Musk Says 'Deep Artificial Intelligence Is a Dangerous Situation'
- SpaceX Test Fires Falcon 9 Before Historic Mission From Launchpad 39a
- Genetically Engineered Mice Resist Becoming Cocaine Addicts
- NASA's Juno Spacecraft Drops First Images of Jupiter's South Pole
- Get Your Science-Loving Girlfriend Synthetic Diamonds This Valentine's Day
- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Says Maybe Aliens Live Among Us, Says He’s Not One
- Orbital ATK Sues DARPA Over Satellite-Repairing Robots
- NASA Scientist Sidd Bikkannavar Detained By Customs, Forced to Unlock Phone
- Adele's Grammy Cursing Moment Gets Psychology's Seal of Approval
- Drones Might Rescue Us From a Bumblebee Dystopia
- Scientists Use Invasive Brazilian Peppertree to Treat MRSA
- Marathon Raises Price of Muscular Dystrophy Drug More Than 7,000%
- Interstellar Travel Is More Than Rocket Science
- Congressman Jason Chaffetz Got Burned By a Kid's Science Question
- How to Watch Tonight's Penumbral Lunar Eclipse and Comet 45P
- Brawling Monkeys Reveal How Animal Societies Reach 'Tipping Point'
- How to Not Cough While Smoking
- OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission Detours to Study Earth Trojans
- NASA Rocket in Alaska Will Make Fake Clouds to Study Aurora
- Amal and George Clooney Twins News Supports This Pregnancy Theory
- Thor Experiment Finally Snaps Images of Rare Blue Flashes from Space
- How to Shame America's Most Powerful Climate Change Deniers
- What Gorilla Suits and Blowfish Have to Do With Climate Change
- Blasting Alcohol With Ultrasound Waves Speeds Up Aging Process
- How to Sober Up Quickly and Prevent Hangovers
- Will Robots Steal Your Job or Help You With It?
- Canadian Anal Gold Thief Mimicked Real Medical Treatments
- White Dwarf Star Rips Apart Comet Containing Elements for Life
- Science Says You Should Nae Nae If You Want to Look Sexy
- Bacteria and Fungi in Medical Weed Increase Respiratory Disease Risk
- Confronting Alternative Facts Can Improve Your Memory of the Truth
- The Butterfly Nebula Floats Toward Death in this Hubble Image
- 'The Bachelor' Group Dates Benefit from the "Assimilation Effect"
- NASA Might Launch a Mission to Europa to Find Alien Life
- Actually, Neighboring Planet Proxima b Might Be Uninhabitable
- Science Says Chanting Charles Oakley Fans Induced 'Battle Trance' at MSG
- SpaceX Will Launch MRSA Samples to International Space Station
- "Extinction Therapy" Taunts Addicted Smokers With More Cigarettes
- NASA Creates Technology that Can Survive Venus Environment
- NASA Says Earth Might Have Been Orange in the Past (Like Donald Trump)
- Unusual Black Hole Hiding in and Stirring Up Giant Star Cluster
- Marijuana Shows Promise As the Next Brain Cancer Treatment
- First Nuclear Bomb Explosion Helps Explain Formation of the Moon
- The Radical Plan to Combat Ocean Acidification at the Source
- GNC Super Bowl Ad Rejected By NFL Over "Prohibited Substance" Concerns
- Tornado Damages NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans
- Here’s a Crazy Idea for Why the Sun Spins Slower Than It Should
- NASA's Hubble Telescope Finds Star Too Bright to Visualize
- 'The Revenge of Analog' Is More Than Nostalgia
- This is the Grade When American Students of Color Lose Faith
- If You're "Not a Math Person," Read This
- Music, Sex, and Drugs Are Different Ways to Get the Same High
- SpaceX Will Return to Its Hectic Falcon 9 Launch Schedule Next Week
- Frizzy-Haired People Have a Better Chance of Hearing Meteors
- This Two-Page Document Brought Back the Dakota Access Pipeline
- Bad Moods Awaken the Internet Troll Inside All of Us
- How to Watch Comet 45P Zip By Earth This Week
- JunoCam Images Look Like a Stunning Art Exhibit for Jupiter
- Green Flaming Meteor Over Lake Michigan Lights Up the Midwest
- Trump's "77-Word" Vocabulary Makes Him Smarter Than We Realize
- Trump’s NASA Plans May Include Returning to Moon and Bolstering Private Sector
- Stomach Acid Powers Tiny Robots Used for Drug Delivery
- The Expanding Genetic Alphabet Will Rewrite Life
- Fact Checking the Science of 'The Space Between Us'
- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Catches Smelly Star Exploding
- In Mongolia, Velociraptor Tourism Will Replace Black Markets
- An Alternative to Vasectomies is Developed for Monkeys at UC Davis
- Science Squashes the Stereotype That Old Men Only Want Young Women
- New Data Says Water May Have Ditched Mars Faster Than We Thought
- This Black Hole Broke a Record for Killing and Eating a Star
- NASA Will Step Up Curiosity Rover's Final Search for Life on Mars
- "Sexual Impatience" Increases STI Risk in Cocaine Users
- Avocados From Mexico Ad Jokes About Hypnosis But Traps Your Subconscious
- Carbon Dioxide Levels on Early Mars Were Too Low For Water
- NASA's Orion Astronauts Need a New System For Taking a Poop
- American Petroleum Institute Super Bowl Ad Gets Rocket Fuel Wrong
- Hubble Image of Porpoise Galaxy Shows Two Galaxies Merging Into One
- Failed Japanese Space Junk Experiment Burns Up in Earth’s Atmosphere
- NASA, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Other Favorite Space Nerds Celebrated the Super Bowl
- Trump Fundamentally Misunderstands the Role of Regulations
- Finger Ratios Determining Wealth Is Straight-Up Bullshit
- Super Bowl Sunday Feasts Require Thousands of Farm Acres
- Price of Overdose-Reversal Drug Raised by 500 Percent
- Scientists Say Spaceflight Alters Your Microbiome
- The Race to Save Climate Change Data From Trump Runs Through New York
- Zombie Drew Barrymore Gets Really Horny in 'Santa Clarita Diet'
- Ceres Might Be Teeming With a Series of Ice Volcanoes
- Congressional Investigators Find Flaws in SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rockets
- Trump's Wall Threatens Dozens of Animals With Extinction
- NASA’s Robonaut 2 Has Some Terrible New Referee Moves in Time for Super Bowl
- Rogue Rooster Acts Like Kangaroo Because of 'Behavioral Synchrony'
- Justin Bieber's Super Bowl Ad Explains Celebration Psychology
- Mosaic Images from ESA's Mars Express Show Ice-Covered North Pole
- Super Bowl Meat Munching Linked to Increased Hospital Trips
- Trump's Muslim Ban Creates a Wandering Band of Scientists
- The Physics of a Perfect Sack
- Hawaii's Subaru Telescope Discover Planetary Nursery Forming Around Infant Star
- A Bus-Sized Asteroid Careened Right Past Earth
- Like Scarface, Cocaine Users Take Even Bigger Risks When Gambling
- Biologists Finally Discovered How Frog Tongues Catch Prey
- Buzz Aldrin and Bill Nye Worked NY Fashion Week and These Photos Prove It
- Scientists Learn Astronaut Brains Change Shape During Space Travel
- The Beleaguered Political Poll Just Got Some Good News
- Scientists Find the Tail of a Black Hole Hiding in the Milky Way Galaxy
- SpaceX Just Tested a Recycled Falcon 9 Rocket Booster in Texas
- A Weekend In the Woods Could Cure Insomnia
- Image Captures Aftermath of a Galactic Collision Between NGC 1316 and NGC 1317
- Groundhog Day Star Punxsutawney Phil Has 55 Years to Find a New Job
- Beyoncé Is Having Twins, Which Is Great but Not Surprising
- Ancient Mars Had 2 Billion Years of Volcanic Activity, Scientists Find
- NASA and Iridium Are Sharing a 2018 SpaceX Rocket Launch into Orbit
- It's No Accident This NASA Satellite Looks Like Origami
- Orangutan Tinder Test Ignores the Value of Smell-Based Dating
- The Secrets of Dark Matter Reveal How the Universe Has Evolved
- MIT's New A.I. Can Tell If Conversations Are Happy or Sad
- Scientists Develop Braking Solution for Breakthrough Starshot
- Future Migrants Won't Be Stopped By President Trump's Wall
- This Algae That Can Survive Outer Space Could Help Us Grow Food on Mars
- 12,000-Year-Old Corpse Found With Walnut-Sized Prostate Stones
- ESO Just Dropped A New Image of the Cat's Paw Nebula and Lobster Nebula
- Sara Parcak's GlobalXplorer Tool Lets You Become a Space Archaeologist
- Amazon's Alexa and Google Assistant are America's Favorite Grown-Up Teddy Bears
- A New Mind-Reading Device Lets Paralyzed People Say if They Want to Live
- Being Naked Outside Is a Quick Hack for Happiness
