October 2015 Science Articles
- Halloween Asteroid "Spooky" 2015 TB145 Breezes by Earth
- NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Smashes Another Space Record
- Why Debating the Nature of Light Matters for Science Education
- Bug-Based Cooking Goes Gourmet With High-Protein Cricket Flour
- A Philosopher Weighs in on Whether or Not You Should Kill Baby Hitler
- Consumer Protection Group Target Dasani's 'Misleading' Label
- Misbehaving Children Are Criminals Only When We Choose to Criminalize Them
- Is It Possible to Be a Healthy Cannibal (and Avoid Prion Disease)?
- What's the Best Way to Get Rid of a Body?
- Happy Anniversary, Legal Weed
- MIT Students Sit-In Over $13.5 Billion Fossil Fuels Endowment
- Where to Look at the South Taurid Meteor Shower
- In Reddit AMA, UN's Christiana Figueres Says 'We Have So Much Momentum' Ahead of Paris Climate Talks
- What Is Processed Meat? A Guide and How It Causes Cancer, Exactly
- Scientists Have Figured Out Why Cigarettes Go So Well With Alcohol
- NASA Administrator Charles Bolden's Plan to Save Earth by Leaving for Mars
- Canadian Whale-Watching Boat Sank After Being Hit by 'Rogue Wave'
- Only Four Percent of the Ocean Is Protected
- NASA Kicks Off Martian Colony Planning Workshop Style
- Orbital Debris Day: A Bewildering Space Object and ESA’s Mitigation Plans
- How Post-Traumatic Sleep Disorders Became a Nightmare for American Veterans
- What Will Actually Happen on NASA's Two Upcoming Spacewalks?
- The Small Solutions Helping New York City Battle Climate Change
- Black Cat Day: Humans Have Hated Black Cats for a Very Long Time
- Qatar Could Become Too Hot for Humans Just 50 Years After the 2022 World Cup
- Whale-Watching Boat Sinks Off Coast of Canada, Cause Not Yet Announced
- Asteroid to Whiz by Earth on Halloween
- The Campaign for the World's First Crowd-Funded Moon Rocket is Sputtering
- Sunday Lectures: Expiry Dates, Howler Monkeys, and Fastballs
- Comet Lovejoy Literally Gives Away Alcohol, with No One in Space to Drink It
- Here Are the Most Breathtaking Photos of Tropical Storm Patricia
- Why Do We Get Hangxiety?
- Study Finds That Half of Switzerland's Potatoes Are Wasted
- Why Does Drinking Booze Give You Hiccups?
- Will Hurricane Patricia Induce Early Labor for Pregnant Women in Mexico?
- Science Explains... How Life Experience Determines Alcohol Preference
- This 1950 Video of Idaho's Parachuting Beavers Was Almost Lost Forever
- Domino's Pizza's New Custom-Made Car Is the Future of Food Delivery
- 2,400-Foot-Long Mexican Drug Cartel Tunnel Into San Diego Unearthed
- Hurricane Patricia Is the Strongest Western Hemisphere Storm on Record
- The Square Kilometer Array May Be Our Best Hope for Finding Alien Life
- How Tsutomu Seki Became Japan’s Celebrity Comet Hunter 50 Years Ago
- Meet NASA's Space Launch System, the Rocket That Might Send Humans to Mars
- 2015 Will Very Likely Be the Planet's Warmest Year on Record
- Colliding Stars Will Either Unite or Destroy Each Other
- Scientists Throw Cadaver Punches to Prove We All Evolved From Bros
- Going from Vegan to Omnivore: How Eating Meat Changed My Life
- 'Mythbusters' Hosts Say They Just Weren't Right for Each Other
- Why Are Marty McFly and Doc Brown Friends in 'Back to the Future'?
- Marijuana Use by Americans Doubled From 2001 to 2013
- It's High Time to Put Restaurant Styrofoam in the Historical Landfill
- Here's a State-by-State Breakdown of Foodborne Illnesses
- Some Genius 3D-Printed a Railgun That Fires Projectiles 559 mph
- The Stars Came Out for White House Astronomy Night
- Move Over, Micropigs. Scientists Just Engineered Double-Muscled Beagles.
- California Is Drought-Shaming Its Greatest Water Wasters, Pointlessly
- DNA Says Dogs First Appeared in Central Asia
- Clara's Evolution Shows 'Doctor Who' May Have Finally Discovered Women
- Alaska's Explosive Wildfire Season Is Fueling and Feeding on Climate Change
- Future Civilizations Will Live on Planets That Haven't Been Born
- The Science Fictional History of Zero Gravity Sex
- The Gross Physiology of the 30-Pound Burrito "Gran Chingon Challenge"
- Darkness Boosts Creativity and Objectivity, Making Us Think Better
- Life on Earth Is Older Than Ever: Evidences Dates Back 4.1 Billion Years
- NASA’s EPIC New Site Shows Earth Like You’ve Never Seen it
- The Pope's Astronomer: NASA Keeps 'Discovering' Water on Mars
- Study on Fish Suggests That Humans Could Someday Regrow Teeth
- Will a Salty Iron Lick Keep Japanese Deer Off the Train Tracks?
- Thomas Jefferson-Designed Chemistry Lab Unearthed at UVA
- Neuroscientists Can Control When a Mouse Dreams
- The Dutch Want Lab Grown Meat in Stores by 2020
- Tracy Morgan Goes Back to Space on 'SNL' as 'Astronaut Jones'
- Nanodiamonds Might Improve Your Chances After a Root Canal
- Christopher Lloyd Just Gave Us One More Reason to Root for the Cubs in the World Series
- Admitted Climate Change Non-Expert Freeman Dyson Becomes Accidental Leader
- How to Drink Only the Very Best Mid-Shelf Whiskey and Get Away With It
- Giphy CEO Alex Chung Says GIFs Are the Future of Communication
- The Weird Future of Internet Access
- NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly Breaks Record for Days Spent in Space
- Austria's Wolf Science Center Built a Giant Treadmill for Wolves
- Junkie Bees Think Caffeinated Nectar Is Great, Even When It's Not
- Saturn's Ice-Spitting Moon Enceladus Photographed by NASA
- Can a 5-Minute Shower Ease the California Drought and Get You Clean?
- Here Are the Best Under-the-Radar U.S. Amusement Parks
- Word of Life Church Was an 'Old School Cult' in the Digital Age
- Sleep Is Overrated: Eight Hours a Night Might Be Too Much
- My TGT Wallet Is the Sleek, Slim Answer to Your Chunky Dad Wallet
- The Psychological Effects of President Obama's Early Prison Release Program
- Can We Get to Mars Sooner If We Refuel on the Moon?
- Early-Risers Can See Mercury on Friday, October 16
- What if 85 Million Wharf Rats Crashed Martha’s Vineyard?
- Why Do Most Police, Fire, and Ambulance Sirens Sound the Same?
- Intellectual Arrogance Leads to Better Academic Performance
- Drinking Even a Little Hurts Your Ability to See Color, Study Finds
- Spring to Begin Three Weeks Earlier by 2100
- The Toronto Zoo Caught a Panda Birth on Video and It's Amazing/Disturbing
- Will Bionic Exoskeletons Keep Us Mobile and Strong as We Age?
- Synthetic Marijuana K2 Detectable in Drug Tests, Officially Worthless
- New NASA Video Shows That Water in Space Looks Awesome
- A Non-Chef's Guide to Making Nutella Pancakes
- How Daily Meditation Helped Me Lucid Dream Every Night
- Bernie Sanders Wins Climate Change Portion of First Democratic Debate
- The Moon Is NASA's Key to Landing Humans on Mars
- What Is the Best Science Costume of 2015?
- CIA Psychologists Sued for 'Illegal Human Experimentation'
- New Evidence Suggests That Stonehenge Was a Site for Epic Feasts
- Will the Volkswagen Emissions Movie Live Up These Corporate Scandal Films?
- Court Convicts Notorious West African Poachers
- The Largest Pumpkins Will Come From Space
- The Tech of the Future Will Know When You'll Want That Slice of Pizza
- Science Pushes Through California Livestock Antibiotics Ban
- A 'Psychic Robot' Algorithm Can Predict Our Actions
- Fetal Stem Cell Transplants May Ease Brittle Bone Disease
- Why Killing Cecil the Lion Was Good for Zimbabwe — If Not for Cecil
- Why Is This Lake Filled With Noxious Foam?
- Inside the School Shooting Industrial Complex
- What We Talk About When We Talk About Lab Mice
- Here's Bill Nye's Ambitious Plan to Orbit Humans Around Mars
- Science Has Already Chosen Your Favorite Food of the Future
- NASA Explains Ancient Lakes on Mars and the Search for Alien Life
- The Easiest Guacamole Ever, in Two, Three, or Six Ingredients
- Coen Bros. Cram George Clooney, Scarlett Johansson, Josh Brolin In 'Hail, Caesar!' Trailer
- Science Explains... How We Learn to Be Greedy
- NASA Confirms Existence of Ancient Lakes on Mars
- How to Talk About the "Gay Gene" Without Being Homophobic or Wrong
- Remembering America's Bizarre War on Margarine
- Lasers Can Tell Us More About Fossils Than Before
- Scientists Recreate 'The Martian' Greenhouse, Grow Sweet Potatoes
- A User's Guide to the Draconid Meteor Showers on Thursday and Friday Night
- Scientists Discover Way to Predict Male Homosexuality Using Genetics
- 1,000 Germans Will Play 'Settlers of Catan' Simultaneously
- These Northern Lights Pics Look Like Photoshop, But They're All Real
- How to Make New Friends? My Italian Nonna Taught Me, It's All About Cooking
- Coast Guard to End Search for Survivors of El Faro Shipping Tanker
- These Six States Are Becoming Craft Beer Powerhouses
- Toddler Survives 'Miracle' Internal Decapitation Surgery
- Congress Members From Obese States Question the USDA's Dietary Advice
- What the 1965 UFO Sighting at Edwards Air Force Base Means 50 Years Later
- Catch a View of a Colorful Rocket Launch, From New York to North Carolina
- Animals at Chernobyl are Thriving — Because Humans Aren't There
- Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to Neutrino Hunters
- Fan Theory 101: Did Kubrick Admit To Faking The Moon Landing In 'The Shining'?
- Carly Fiorina’s Planned Parenthood Attacks Are a Threat to Science
- Social Media Roasts Flooded S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley for Climate Change Denial
- Got Milk? Doesn't Matter: Calcium Barely Contributes to Strong Bones
- What Is a Cloud Made Of? Scientists Examine Cloud Edges to Find Out.
- NASA's Project Apollo Archive Releases Thousands of Moon Landing Photos
- World Bank Economist: "There Is an African Face to Poverty in 2030"
- Remembering That Time Teenage Barack Obama Went to Mars
- Scientists Want to Lure Wasps Back to Farms — as Pesticide Alternatives
- Who Smokes Medical Marijuana in Each State?
- 2015 Nobel Winners in Physiology or Medicine Take Home Gold For Parasite-Busting Drugs
- Why Do Crows Gather Around Their Dead?
- Sunday Lectures: Myths, Universal Beauty, and Plane Toilets
- Rabies Still Poses a Threat in the U.S.
- India's Climate Commitment Is Good News for the Paris Talks and the Planet
- Elon Musk's Quest to Nuke Mars Continues
- Why We Feel a Guilty Thrill When a Hurricane Threatens to Come Ashore
- The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Also Created a Massive Volcanic Eruption
- United Launch Alliance Sends Up 100th Mission in Mexico
- Why NASA Thinks GitHub Can Help Us Settle in Space
- NASA Releases Surprising New Images of Charon, Pluto's Biggest Moon
- Not Mars: NASA Announces Five New Investigations
- Hurricane Joaquin Starts to Cause Damage in the Bahamas
- You'll Soon Be Able to Pay $1,000 to See Your Genetic Map
- 'The Martian' Is the First Good Movie About Mars
- This Enzyme May Explain How Binge Drinking Leads to Alcoholism
- Berlin Candy Store Now Boasts the World's First 3D Printed Fruit Gummy Printer
