January 2016 Science Articles
- Stephen Hawking and Paul Rudd Play Quantum Chess as Keanu Reeves Narrates in This Brillant Video
- Everything You Need to Know About NASA's James Webb Space Telescope
- High-Tech Backpacks Highly Rejected on 'Shark Tank'
- Ubisoft's 'Far Cry' Isn't 'Jurassic Park', But It's Getting Closer
- Pluto's Atmosphere Looks Like a Blue Dream Under Infrared Light
- Ancient Babylonians Used Calculus to Track Jupiter 1,400 Years Before Anyone Else
- Resident NASA Composer Yanni Imagines a Sexier Future with 'Sensuous Chill'
- Engineer Who Raised Concerns About Challenger Explosion Tells His Story
- Humans Probably Ate this 500-Pound Bird to Extinction in Australia
- Watch NASA’s Stellar Animation of the Dawn Spacecraft’s Flight Over Ceres
- 'Legends of Tomorrow' Wisely Downsizes Its Ridiculously Large Team
- The Public Meets the Chasmosaurus
- The Mighty Sea Monkey Scoffs at Death
- Is This Ancient Clay the Antidote to the World's Toughest Bacterial Infections?
- These 6 States Are Still Royally Screwing Up Medical Pot Laws
- Scientists Discover That Fungus That Lives in Antarctica Could Also Live on Mars
- We Won't Cure Sleepwalking Because It Doesn't Scare Us Enough
- The Heated Driveway of the Future Is Being Developed in Nebraska
- When Will Astronauts Go Back to the Moon?
- Ask an Algorithm: Winter Sidewalk Etiquette
- The Earth Could Become a "Plastic Planet"
- "Natural" Food Is a Marketing Scheme, So Why Are We Falling for It?
- What the Challenger Explosion Means 30 Years Later
- The Creators of HBO's 'Animals' Love Rats, Don't Like People
- Asian Snowstorms, Winter Weather Prove Deadly Days After Jonas Kills 42 in U.S.
- The Tanuki Is All the Buzz
- Marvin Minsky: Read His 1961 Paper on Artificial Intelligence
- Future Space Humans Will Be Light and Lean, With Strong, Dexterous Feet
- Utopia, Not Dystopia: The 13 Most Optimistic Science Fiction Books
- CIA Releases Declassified UFO Documents
- "Free-Floating" Planet Turns Out to Have Million-Year Orbit
- Transgenic Monkeys Show Signs of Autism
- Why the Pentagon Needs Psychologists
- How Long Will It Take for This Snow to Melt?
- Astronaut Scott Kelly Reveals the Challenges of Living in Space During Reddit AMA
- 33 Million Americans In Awe of a Blizzard Again
- What If We Haven't Found Aliens Because They're Extinct?
- The Ocean Is No Place for Your Plastic, but It Is Full of It
- Carbon Dioxide "Intoxicates" Ocean Fish
- The Ant Ages but Never Gets Old
- NASA’s Scott Kelly Celebrates Day 300
- Some European Folktales Pre-Date the Bible and Greek Myths
- These "Celebrity Stars" Are Young, Hot, and Ready to Crash and Burn
- Why Morphological Freedom Is a Fantasy: Your Body Isn't Just Your Own
- A Crowdsourced Weather App Might Put Your Local Meteorologist Out of a Job
- Why Are We Just Now Finding This So-Called 'Planet Nine'?
- NASA Offers Views of Winter Storm Jonas from Space
- How "Invisible Gas Noodles" Help Us Understand Star Formation
- Power Ranking the Costumes of DC's 'Legends of Tomorrow'
- MIT's 7 Best Free Online Courses: Quantum Physics and Making Video Games
- Drone Video Reveals New Russian Spaceport Almost Ready for Launch
- Here's How Americans Are Living Past Age 100
- The Moon Means More or Less Rain
- Name That Planet!
- Wu-Tang, the Weeknd, Willie Nelson All Have Branded Weed Products. You Should Too.
- North Korea Claims to Invent Hangover-Free Alcohol, Probably Unsure How Alcohol Works
- Scientist Who Found 'Ninth Planet' Says It Was 'Pretty Massive'
- 2015 Was the Hottest Year on Record -- by a Lot
- In Russia, Transhumanism is Basically Patriotism Via Self-Improvement
- Could Donald Trump Win the Iowa Caucuses With a Biofuel Mandate?
- Rogue Surgeon Claims to Have Successfully Transplanted a Monkey Head
- Tech Think Tank Gives Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking Annual 'Luddite Award'
- Water Testing in Flint Could Have Prevented This Whole Mess
- NASA Has 200 Social Media Accounts. These Are the 10 You Should Follow Now
- Helmet Leak Abruptly Ends Spacewalk, Mission Still Accomplished
- Five Planets to Appear Together Before Dawn
- Will Ferrell Demonstrates the Three Types of Stupidity Defined by Psychology
- SETI Research Head Seth Shostak Says the 21st Century Might Be Humanity’s Last
- Sea Shepherd Sets Sail to Defend Antarctic Fish From Poaching
- The Best 15 Japanese Emoticons Beyond Your Hero, the Shruggie
- The Genetic Key to Human Intelligence May Lie in a Fragment Called DUF1220
- After a Rocket Crash, the Jason-3 Satellite Has an Environmental Mission
- First Space Flower Brings Beauty to ISS
- NASA Takes Forceful Stance on Sexual Harassment
- Why NASA Is Outsourcing ISS Resupply Duties to 3 Different Companies
- Physics Proves That Quicksilver Has Hidden Superpowers Beyond Speed
- Godzilla vs. King Kong: The Human Ethics of Intra-Monster Violence
- Obama Administration Makes Autonomous Technology a Priority
- NASA JPL Introduces the Deep Space Atomic Clock
- Here's How to Quit Smoking Perfectly on the Very First Try
- Mammoth Bones Prove Humans Conquered the Arctic Millennia Earlier Than We Thought
- NASA Awards Big Contracts to 3 Companies, Making the ISS Accessible to All
- Joel Osteen Isn't a Jerk: A Non-Believer's Baptism in the Prosperity Gospel
- Scientists Have Found the Brightest Supernova Ever Detected
- Sleep Paralysis Cure Will Finally Vanquish the Demons of Our Ancestors
- 'The Martian' Scored 7 Oscar Nominations in a Big Year for Science Fiction
- Astronomers Identify Sri Lanka's Space Debris as 1998 NASA Lunar Probe
- NASA Will Probably Give $3.5 Billion to Orbital ATK or SpaceX Today
- Artist Plans to Construct Pyramid Using Every VHS Copy of 'Jerry Maguire'
- A Mother Mutation: The Moment of Multicellularity
- DOT Secretary to Discuss Obama Administration Self-Driving Initiatives
- Astronaut Alvin Drew Calls for More Arts Education
- Shark Virgin Births Change Everything We Thought We Knew About Reproduction
- From Ziggy Stardust to Young Thug: A Brief History of Musicians Claiming to Be From Outer Space
- 'Escape from Tarkov' Might Be the Next 'DayZ'
- No, 'Mercury in Retrograde' Isn't Making Your Life Worse
- How American Sailors Were Released from Iran in a Matter of Hours
- Dogs Use a Human-Like Technique to Read Our Emotions
- Machimosaurus Rex: Paleontologists Find Largest Marine Crocodile Ever
- MARS: Building With Concrete on the Red Planet
- Denver's National Western Stock Show Is the Drunk, Better Oscars for Cows
- NASA Formalizes Asteroid Defense Plan
- Did Scientists Finally Discover Gravitational Waves?
- The Sea Butterfly Is the Most Beautiful, Most Threatened Ocean Animal
- Scientists Claim Famous 1977 'Wow!; Signal May Have Been Comets, Not Aliens
- Life on Mars? European and Russian Space Agencies Prepare for March Launch
- This New Trailer for 'The Witch' Is Scary as Hell
- Listen to Astronaut Chris Hadfield Cover David Bowie in Space
- Insect Farming Is Agriculture as Dystopian Future as American Manufacturing
- You Can Now Smoke Your Smartphone
- Scott Kelly Requests Moment of Silence From Space to Honor Victims of 2011 Tuscon Shooting
- The Science of Cute and Why You Want to Bite This Baby Red Panda
- 15 Bits of Bullshit Corporate Jargon You Should Actually Use
- Captive Great White Shark Dies Before It Has Chance to Star in Outrage-Generating Doc
- SETI Comunication Director Seth Shostak on Our Sudden Openness to the Idea of Alien Life
- New Milky Way 'Age Map' Shows How Our Galaxy Grew
- Pizza Math Yields New Formula for Infinite Curved Slices
- Australian Team Finds Meteorite Possibly Older than Earth
- U.S. Transportation Department Offers Bus Crash Avoidance Tech Prize
- Public Housing Is the Next Battlefront for Smoking Bans
- How the Pentagon Is Building the 'Enhanced' Super Soldiers of Tomorrow
- These 'Space Balls' Crashed in Vietnam, Could Belong to Russian Satellites
- Clones Are the Most Expensive Dog Breed
- Scientists Discover Five New Massive, Unexpected Exploding Stars
- A Waiter’s Size Determines How Much You Eat
- The Sixth Sense Is Ultrasonic Touch and the Seventh Is 360-Degree Vision
- NYS Governor Plans the ‘Empire State Station’
- A Meteorologist Explains What 'Darth Niño' Means
- The Nematode Provides Potential Innovation in Cancer Treatment
- NASA Plans to Fly Big Jets With Electricity
- To Attract Mosquitoes, These Orchids Smell Like People
- Talking to Yourself Doesn't Mean You're Lonely if You're Doing it Right
- Virgin Births of Snakes Happen for a Reason
- NASA Says Its Green Tech Could Save the Airlines $250 Billion
- The Steep Sand Dunes of Mars are Seen Up-Close In These New NASA Images
- Hillary Clinton Is 'Going to Get to the Bottom’ of This Area 51 and UFO Business
- New Deep Space Images Show Stars Forming From Whirlpools of Dust
- E.O. Wilson's Wild Half-Earth Plan Isn't Radical Enough to Save the Planet
- Tools to Help Your Chances of Seeing the Quadrantid Meteor Shower
- Men With Poor Diets Produce Unhealthy Children