January 2016 Science Articles

Archive January 2016 Science Archive

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
Video Game Cookbook Author Holly Green on Giving Gamers Kitchen Cheat Codes
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 And It's Going to Stay That Way
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
Tools to Help Your Chances of Seeing the Quadrantid Meteor Shower
Men With Poor Diets Produce Unhealthy Children