May 2016 Science Articles
- Space Startup Planetary Resources to Sell Its Satellite Tech to Bayer for Future Farming
- How Big Is the Milky Way, Anyway?
- How Physicists Convinced Schrödinger’s Cat to Asexually Reproduce
- NASA Tests a Quieter Sonic Boom in California
- Florida Golfer Says 15-Foot Gator Looked Like "Two Guys in an Alligator Suit"
- This Week Marks 50 Years Since Surveyor 1 Launched New Era of Moon Landings
- The Case for Abandoning Miami and the Rich Fools Building Mansions on the Beach
- NOAA Releases Anti-Selfie Stick Advisory to Save Baby Seals From Human Monsters
- The 7 Celebrity Sharks You Should Follow on Twitter
- Zoo Recovers Sperm From Gorilla Killed
- The Moon's Water Actually Came From Asteroids, Not Comets
- Tech Evolution in Darwin's Islands? The Galapagos Adapts to Solar and Wind Power
- How to See Mars Looming Large in the Night Sky as Opposition Ends
- Watch as NASA Successfully Inflates BEAM Habitat in a New Time Lapse Video
- NASA Successfully Inflated BEAM Habitat Aboard the International Space Station
- Lightning Struck 11 People at Kid's Birthday Party in Paris
- NASA Announces It Will Attempt to Inflate the BEAM Module on Saturday
- Blue Origin, Virgin Galactic, XCOR Aerospace Battle for DARPA Space Contract
- Kill Some Time With Terrapattern, Which Turns Satellite Images Into Art
- Is Neil deGrasse Tyson a Prisoner of His Own Celebrity?
- Digital Reconstruction of Pawpawsaurus Skull Shows It Had a Powerful Nose
- Scientists Identify Genes Linked to Well-Being, Depression, and Neuroticism
- MIT's "Bioinspired" Concrete Could Drastically Improve the Environment
- Mars Is Emerging From an Ice Age
- Wondering Which Marijuana Strain to Smoke? The Netflix of Weed Has You Covered
- One Stop on a Worldwide Quest for Startups Ready to Disrupt Getting Old
- Did NASA Screw Up Its Numbers on Its Asteroid Study? Nathan Myhrvold Thinks So
- New NASA Study Will Test How Solids Dissolve In Space in Order to Improve Our Medicine
- How to See Mars on May 30 When It Appears Bigger Than It Has in a Decade
- Watch Lightning Strike at 7,000 Frames Per Second
- How to Perfect the Water Bottle Flip That Went Viral
- Supermassive Black Holes Can Cause Galactic Warming
- Global Surge in Volcanic Activity Signals the Apocalypse (According to Idiots)
- New Population of Tasmanian Devils Could Supply Much-Needed Genetic Diversity
- The SCiO Mini-Spectrometer Will Analyze Your Food's Molecules for Fat, Sugar, and Calories
- Scientists Have an Algorithm to Predict Tsunamis
- NASA Telescopes Find Clues for How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly
- Scientists Are Closer Than Ever to Curing Jet Lag
- Millennium Prize Winner Further Blurs the Line Between Science and Tech
- Physiognomy and the Return of the Discredited Sciences
- Russia Will Not Send U.S. Astronauts to ISS After 2018
- Montana Collector Discovers "Judith" Dinosaur, Keeps the Dream Alive for All of Us
- A 5,000-Year-Old Beer Recipe Was Just Unearthed in China
- You Can Buy Kenneth Wilson's 1982 Nobel Prize in Physics (For More Than $450,000)
- The Crazy Plan to Zap Clouds With Lasers to Stop Climate Change
- India Has Just Launched a Small-but-Mighty Reusable Space Shuttle
- KFC's Edible Bowl Will Lead a Populist, Sustainable Table Manners Revolution
- Want to Go Outside? The Biology of Nature Appreciation Proves You're Not Alone
- Eating Iguanas Solves South Florida's Invasive Species Problem a Taco at a Time
- Scientists Need to Take Back the Word 'Alien' Before We Find Extraterrestrials
- Scientists Isolate Body Odor's Specific Smells One Volatile Compound at a Time
- Will India's Heat Wave Spark Violence? Scarcity-Driven Crime Is a Real Concern
- 4 Weird True Crime Stories From the Dinosaur Fossil Black Market
- Stand on Pluto's Icy Surface in Virtual Reality Movie by the 'NYT'
- How to See Mars in Opposition Tonight
- India Heat Wave Sets a Devastating New Record as Pollution Rises
- NASA Announces Launch Date for History Making OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft
- LIGO Might Have Discovered Dark Matter on Accident
- Orbital ATK Wants to Help NASA Put Astronauts Near the Moon Again and, Eventually, Mars
- The Tyrannosaurus Rex Had Lips and It Probably Didn't Roar
- Europeans Returned to Africa During the Ice Age
- Beetle Study Shows Bug Genitals Change Shape When They Bone Too Much
- Interstellar Space Travel Won't Be Successful Without a Better Braking System
- The Search Is on for (Cheap) Nuclear Fusion
- New Findings Show Europa Is More Like Earth Than We Ever Knew
- New Research Reveals Giant Tsunami Remnants on Mars
- Scientists Are Drilling the Sea for the Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs
- Hubble Has Snapped One of the Best Images of Mars Ever Seen
- NASA Chief Announces a 2028 Expiration Date for the ISS: "It is Inevitable"
- German Hobbyist Claims Hitler's Buried Nukes Could Start a "Second Chernobyl"
- Will Miami Beat New Orleans? The Race to Become America’s First Underwater City
- Your Mouth Has Bacteria "That Could Grow on Mars," Says a NASA Scientist
- NASA to Transport People In Private Spacecraft by 2018
- Here's Why It's Illegal to Seed Planets With Alien Lifeforms From Earth
- Cyborg Neil Harbisson Says Our 3D-Printed Spacemen Surrogates Will Roam Planets for Us
- Watch Ford Explain How It'll Turn Carbon Emissions Into Plastic Cupholders for Cars
- Watch Lockheed Martin’s Epic Video Unveiling "Mars Base Camp"
- How Do We Talk to Aliens? Scientists Meet in Puerto Rico to Hash It Out
- New Hampshire Weather Observers Discover That Yes, 100 MPH Winds Will Make You Fly
- What Is Arctic Engineering? Protecting Infrastructure From Climate Change
- American Meteor Society: Don't Worry About That Fireball Over Portland, Maine
- Scientists Have Just Found a New Form of Light
- Who Will Run the Chinese SpaceX? Space Race Capitalism Has Arrived in Beijing
- Can Cryonics Save the Brain and the Self? A Doctor Holds Out Hope
- Team Australia's Athletes Are Bringing Zika-Proof Condoms to the Brazil Olympics
- Scientists Project That After the Sun Destroys Earth, It Could Thaw Icy Worlds
- Could Hyperthermia Make a Comeback?
- California May Soon Send Warning Texts a Minute Before an Earthquake Hits
- The International Space Station Just Completed Its 100,000th Orbit
- 5 Mislabeled and Counterfeit Foods That Prove Expensive Meals Can Be Costly Lies
- Canada's Next Astronaut to Go to Space Is David St-Jacques
- Scientists Are Worried That the 'Finding Nemo' Sequel Will Hurt This Tropical Fish
- 5 Things to Look for This Astronomy Day
- Magnetospheres and More: NASA Just Funded These 8 Bizarre Projects
- Watch Mercury and the International Space Station Transit the Sun at the Same Time
- By Disproving an Alien Conspiracy Theory, a BU Astronomer Made Spaceships Safer
- The Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle Workaround? Time Travel Through Wormholes
- Project TeSeR Could Fix Earth's Space Junk Problem
- Paleoart Shows Dinosaurs Weren't the Terrible Lizards of Your Fantasies
- How the Goldilocks Zone Could Help Us Find Aliens
- New Tech Helps Solve the Twin Mysteries of Magnetic Reconnection and the Aurora
- How a "Planet Score" Helped NASA Identify 1,284 New Exoplanets in One Fell Swoop
- Transhumanism Doesn't Threaten Homo Sapiens, Just How We Understand Evolution
- Researchers Use Scary Movies to Prove the Chemicals We Emit Betray Our Emotions
- Kazakhstan Pledges Shift to 50 Percent Renewable Energy by 2050
- Boeing Sets New 2018 Date for Starliner's First Manned Flight
- Your Tent Is Full of Chemicals Because Some Dumbass Set His on Fire
- The 5 Most Beautiful Scientific Demonstrations of All Time
- No, NASA Did Not Discover Over 1,200 Planets Crawling With Alien Life
- Astronomers Find a Star System That Ours Could Have Become
- Bioquark's Ira Pastor Believes in the Resurrection of the Brain Dead
- How the First Gold Rush Created the Boom and Bust Dinosaur Fossil Economy
- Feedback Just Fed 5,000 People With Food Too Ugly for Grocery Stores
- Mitsubishi CEO Apologizes as Emissions Cheating Scandal Widens to All Vehicles Sold in Japan
- No, NFL Players Aren't More Likely to Commit Suicide, CDC Finds
- NASA Confirms 1,284 Newly Discovered Exoplanets
- Miami's Doomed Frost Museum of Science Is a Monument to Ignoring Science
- 8 'Star Wars' Worlds Are Basically Just Real Exoplanets
- Scientists Just Took a Critical Step Toward Making Jet Fuel from Plants
- The 'Alien Megastructures' Star Definitely Has Nothing to Do With Aliens
- 6 Pacific Islands Have Already Disappeared as Sea Levels Rise
- DNA Shows Camels Will Be the Cheeky Desert Survivors of Climate Change
- Why Are Scientists Building a Nuclear Clock? Because Atomic Clocks Aren't Perfect
- Face-Tightening "Second Skin" Could Make Botox and Wrinkles Obsolete
- The Problem With iPhones Making Us Into Cyborgs? App Developers Can't Be Trusted
- How To Watch Mercury in Transit Live
- Before Kicking Someone Off a Flight, This Is What a Differential Equation Looks Like
- The 'Death Reversal' Study of Jon Snow-Style Resurrection Is All About Identity
- Here Are Some Wild Guesses About NASA's Looming Exoplanet Discovery Announcement
- NASA Releases "Jet-Shoes" Patent to Public, Calls on Real-Life Tony Stark to Build Them
- The New Topographic Map of Mercury Marks a Milestone for Space Cartography
- Scientists Have Big Plans for a Newly Mapped "Brain Dictionary"
- How Badly Did The 'New Yorker' Screw Up Its Article on Identical Twins?
- NASA Releases Rocket and Aircraft Patents for SpaceX and Blue Origin to Sink Teeth Into
- Uber Has Primed Us for the Emissions-Free Autopod
- The Small Country of Luxembourg Announces Big Plans for Asteroid Mining
- Eccentric Russian Billionaires Are Investing in Their Weird Futuristic Visions
- What Will Replace Moore's Law as Technology Advances Beyond the Microchip?
- Alan Shepard's Mercury Mission Is Carried on by Blue Origin 55 Years Later
- Scientists Discover 3 New Habitable Planets: How Long Would It Take to Get There?
- Scientists Posit There Are a Trillion Earth Species, Darwin Got Some Stuff Wrong
- For G-Star Raw, the Hottest Fashion Trend Is Recycled Plastic
- Scientists Find Gravity Waves Doing Weird Things to Pluto's Atmosphere
- The Search for Extraterrestrial Life Puts Astronomers at Odds, Not in Conflict
- NASA Finds Volcanic Evidence for More Water on Mars
- Bill Nye Refused to Feud With Climate Change Denier So Jimmy Kimmel Handled It
- May 9 Mercury Transit Will be the Decade's Most Adorable Eclipse: How to Watch
- Why Are More Americans Rejecting the "Environmentalist" Label?
- Why Space Science Urgently Needs a Better Spokesman Than Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Why Europe's ExoMars Mission Was Delayed to 2020
- $3 Million Breakthrough Prize Goes to Scientists Who Proved Gravitational Waves
- When NASA Astronauts Land on Earth, a New Mission Awaits: Space Advocacy
- How Chile's Unique TRAPPIST Telescope Found Habitable Planets 40 Light-Years Away
- CERN Spoiler Alert? Physicists Are Teasing the Laity With New Particle Discovery
- 3 Habitable Worlds? Scientists Just Pinpointed Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens
