September 2016 Science Articles
- The Weeknd's 'False Alarm' Sets Up a Classic Psychology Experiment
- The DEA Just Paused Its Ban on Kratom
- Earth Just Passed the Point of No Return for Carbon Dioxide
- 16 Years Later, Bill Gates-Supported GMO Golden Rice May Be a Failure
- Yes, Beyonce and Solange Have Musical Genes (And Knowles Family Work Ethic)
- New Research Refines Map of the Milky Way's Strange Spiral
- A Year After Its Discovery, Water on Mars Means Colonization and a Second Chance
- No, There's Nothing Spooky About Tonight's "Black Moon"
- Donald Trump Said a True Science Thing
- Miley Cyrus's Suggestion Ellen DeGeneres Take MDMA For a Cold Wasn't Crazy
- Flume's 'Say It' Video Gets 100 Points for Style and Zero Points for Physics
- Rosetta Completes Historic Comet Landing, Ending ESA Mission
- Inside Black Dart, the Pentagon's Annual Drone-Killing Championship
- NASA Reveals How Mars Rocks Influence the Planet's Atmosphere
- Boeing's Crewed Lunar Space Station Will Be a Stepping Stone for Mars Missions
- NASA Would Take Hackers on Mars One
- Why Do People Kill? Research Suggest Societies, Not Genetics, Are To Blame
- Strange Chemistry For a Newborn Star
- How Activists Made Outer Space LGBTQ Friendly
- How to Watch the Rosetta Space Probe Crash Into a Comet
- Michelle Obama Just Accused Donald Trump of Having a Tiny Prefrontal Cortex
- 3 Reasons Why We Should Expect More Polar Bear Sieges
- Sierra Nevada Will Launch the First-Ever United Nations Space Mission
- Astronauts Will Train for Mars Base Camp Using Virtual Reality
- 'Orion' Spacecraft to Have Major Role in Lockeed Martin's Mars Base Camp
- Elon Musk: Sell Your House and Start a New Life on Mars
- Here's Why the UN Just Declared the Americas Measles-Free
- Stephen Hawking Fears That Aliens Will Destroy Us, and That's Crazy
- Elon Musk Explains Why SpaceX Only Hires Americans
- Scientific Proof That Beer Snobs Are Just Plain Old Snobs
- This 3D-Printed 'Hyperelastic Bone’ Is Going to Transform Medicine
- Swedish Sex Ed Group Urges NASA to Send Condoms to Space
- NASA and SpaceX Won't Talk About Human Sexuality, Space Travel's Known Unknown
- NASA's OSIRIS-REx Mission to the Asteroid Bennu
- On September 28, Mercury is Going to Be Lit
- Here's SpaceX's Plan to Generate Methane on Mars
- Elon Musk Wants to Make SpaceX the Union Pacific Railroad to Mars
- A.I. Proves the Hollywood Gender Gap Exists, But It Won't Close It
- Elon Musk Describes the 4 Things Needed for "Planet Hopping"
- Hillary Wore Red Because Red is For Winners
- Elon Musk Will Name the First Mars-Bound Spacecraft After Famous Sci-Fi Ship
- Elon Musk Says He Would Like to Visit Mars During SpaceX Presentation.
- 4 Facts About Implicit Bias
- What the Discovery of Tectonics on Mercury Means for Potential Alien Life
- The Definitive Guide to Making a Three-Parent Baby
- SpaceX Shares Video of What the Journey to Mars Might Look Like
- Were Donald Trump's Debate Sniffs a Product of Cocaine Use Back in the Day?
- Why Scientists Aren't Freaking Out About Falling Oxygen Levels
- Elon Musk Will Explain Tuesday How He Wants to Colonize Mars
- Did Trump Call Global Warming a Hoax Before First Presidential Debate
- Jane Goodall is Right, Trump Is a Lot Like Mike the Chimp
- Genetic Science Could Explain Luke Cage’s Bulletproof, Painproof Skin
- China Sent Vines Into Outer Space So That It Can Make Better Wine
- Trump Could Lose The Debate If He Makes Those Stupid Faces
- NASA Finds Jupiter's Moon Europa is Erupting With Plumes of Water Vapor
- The IRL Version of the "Star Wars' Sarlacc Is the Penis Worm
- Why the 'Right-Hand' Rule Won't Work In Today’s Corn Mazes
- Why Stephen Hawking Booked A Ticket to Space on Virgin Galactic
- You Could Be Toasting With Smoke-Tainted Wine This Year
- How Creating Extraterrestrial Life Could Trigger an Interstellar Anthropocene
- A Scientist Explains Why 'Everything Is Fucked'
- Transhumanists and the Religious Right Make an Uneasy Peace
- China's Radio Telescope Will Be Able to Find Aliens
- Here's The Science Behind Ophiuchus, The 13th Zodiac Sign
- China’s Runaway Tiangong-1 Space Station Might Cause a “Rain of Metal” on Earth
- Synthetic Alcohol Promises to End Hangovers for Good
- This Is How Boeing Plans to Send Astronauts to Mars
- List of Ig Nobel Prize Winners 2016
- Hubble Telescope Finds Planet Orbiting Two Suns
- Cisco Blames Network Outage On "Cosmic Radiation"
- It's the Fall Equinox Summer is Over
- Bill Nye Shills For Netflix With Science of How Brains Get 'Hooked'
- SpaceX's Red Dragon Will Use Badass New Technology to Land on Mars
- NASA Testing Orion Spacecraft Water Recovery
- Steve and Jean-Ralphio Exemplify Why Love Doppelgängers
- NASA is Helping SpaceX's Red Dragon Mission to Mars for the Flight Data
- Sugar Industry Funded Science That Made Sugar Look Healthier
- 'The Good Place' Mimics Real Life With Its (Maybe) Evil Drug Pusher
- Toyota Wants to Power its Future Sustainable Cars with Human Poop
- The UN Is Fast Tracking Climate Change Agreements In Case of a Future President Trump
- NASA Has a Big Discovery about Europa to Announce Next Week. Is it Aliens?
- Lady Gaga's 'Perfect Illusion' Video Illustrates a Heat-Induced Hallucination
- We Predicted Who Might Win the Ig Nobel Prizes
- Will the Ig Nobels Save Science or Ruin It?
- Astronomers Discover Massive Star Formations in Lyman-alpha Blobs
- How Bacteria Could Grow Food and Tools for Martian Space Colonies
- LIDAR Scans Reveal Hidden Megacity Around Cambodia's Angkor Wat Temple
- What You Need to Know About Elephant Tranquilizers, AKA Carfentanil
- How the Antikythera Shipwreck Skeleton Survived the Elements
- Spotify and Tinder Want to Help You Hookup With Music—And Science Agrees
- Tabby's Star's Anomalies Aren't 'Alien Megastructures,' They're Space Junk
- NASA: We Didn't Change Your Zodiac Sign, Astrology Isn't Real
- How the Radiation Protection Gene in Tardigrades Could Help Human Space Travel
- Donald Trump Jr. Totally Botched Sociologist's Skittle-Science Methods
- Why We Need 'Passengers'-Style Hibernation Pods for Space Travel
- 4 Jungle Hazards The 'Jumanji’ Cast's Skimpy Outfits Can't Prevent
- Watch NASA Blow Up a Piece of its SLS Rocket Booster Into Thousands of Tiny Bits
- Ötzi the Iceman's Been Busy Offering Gifts to Science The Past 25 Years
- Science Provides Definitive Proof That Lazy Stoners Are a Myth
- Pirates and Rap Stars Do This To Channel Their Inner Cool
- SpaceX CEO Elon Musk Says His Company Could Have a Mars Colony by 2026
- NASA and Microsoft Finally Open Virtual Exhibit of Mars to Public
- Here's How Beer Goggles Work, According to Science
- A New Senate Bill Could Safeguard NASA's Mars Mission From a Trump Presidency
- The Crazy Flat Earthers' Theory That Trees Don't Exist Isn't Completely Crazy
- 'Frequency' Could Use Quantum Entanglement to Talk to Dead
- Will Greenhouse Gases Curse California With Drought For the Rest of Time?
- How Do Pressure Cooker Bombs Work?
- Geoneutrinos Can Reveal How Much Fuel Earth Has Left in Tank
- Messier 77's Supermassive Black Hole Hides Inside Its Own "Exhaust"
- Wait, Why the Hell is Pluto Emitting X-Rays?
- A New Neptune is Born Before Our Eyes Around TW Hydrae 175 Light-Years Away
- Donald Trump Would Be One of Our Fattest Presidents If Elected
- This New Photo of the 'Loch Ness Monster' Proves We See What We Want to See
- A Lost Michael Crichton Manuscript Revives a 19th Century Dinosaur War
- 'Meteorite' Downplays the Spectacular Violence of IRL Meteorites
- ‘Marsquakes’ Could Facilitate the Evolution of Life on Mars
- How to See Tonight's Harvest Moon May or May Not Have a Lunar Eclipse
- SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell Hopes to Launch Rockets Again in November
- The James Webb Telescope Could Prove Extraterrestrial Habitability on Proxima b
- What Does Obama's Marine National Monument Even Mean?
- Spaceflight Startup Ripple Aerospace Wants to Launch Rockets out of Ocean
- Russian Scientists Have Figured A Way To Use Cold Plasma To Treat Wounds
- China Unveils New Cold Atomic Clock Before Space Launch Tiangong
- Paleontologist: Depressed T. Rex in Audi Commercial Is Kinda Accurate
- The Tooth Storm in 'American Horror Story' Would Save Forests IRL
- We're on the Verge of Knowing What Color T. Rex Is
- What Happens if SpaceX Beats NASA to Mars?
- NASA: The 'Journey to Mars' is About Much More Than Actually Going to Mars
- Diego the Tortoise Is Saving His Species by Having A Lot Of Sex
- Mars Possessed Lakes of Liquid Water Much Later than We Thought Possible
- We Joined Elliot and Angela in a Lucid Dream on 'Mr. Robot'
- In Gorgeous Montage, Jay-Z Breaks Down the Racist Crack/Cocaine Divide
- China Launches its Second Space Station into Orbit
- ESA Releases a “Billion-Star Atlas” of the Milky Way
- Why Cannibal Horror Film 'Raw' Is Sending People To the Hospital
- Astronaut Scott Kelly Experienced a Fluid Shift Because of His Year in Space
- The Success of Commercial Space Companies Hinges on Being Able to Make a Profit
- The British 5-Pound Note is Chewable. Doesn't Mean You Should Eat It.
- NASA Livestreamed Its Asteroid Redirect Mission Technology on Facebook
- Why The Internet is Obsessed With Blue
- Bigger Sea Creatures Are at Greater Risk of Extinction, Thanks to Overfishing
- Why NASA's Asteroid Redirect Mission is Critical to Humanity's Trip to Mars
- Rocket Design Needs to Be More Efficient, Scientist Says
- When Does Autumn Start? Astronomers and Meteorologists Disagree
- 'Hot In Herre' Spelled Doom For Nelly's Babymaking
- Science Confirms Hipster Beards Are Sex-Magnets
- Renegade Biologists Create Embryos Without Eggs
- Scott Kelly Gets a Movie Deal about His Year in Space.
- China Set to Launch Tiangong-2 Space Lab Into Orbit
- Scientists Further Validate Existence of Three Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
- Where the Candidates Stand on 3 Pressing Science Topics
- How Do You Know If You're Drunk? Study Finds It Depends Who You're Around
- 3 World Leaders Who Actually Had Body Doubles (Unlike Hillary Clinton)
- The OED Finally Gave 'Moobs' The Respect They Deserve
- Science Explains Why Marvel Music is So Forgettable
- NASA Researchers Watch Auroras Moving to the Beat of Earth's Magnetic Field
- Scientists Recorded a Couple of Dolphins Having a Chat
- Can Magic Exist In Today's Scientific World?
- This Optical Illusion Has 12 Dots But You Can't See Them At Once
- ESA Is Putting Astronauts Through 'Pangea Course’ To Prepare for Martian Geology
- An Ancient Collision Nearly Vaporized Earth, Giving Birth to the Moon
- Before Harambe, There Was the "Frog Launch" Frog
- Earth's Oldest Fossils Gives Us Clues About Life on Mars
- Art and Science Join Forces in the Search for Aliens at the SETI Institute
- Is the End of DNA Testing Nigh? Testing Proteins Could be Way of the Future
- On the 15th Anniversary of 9/11, We Remember Flashbulb Memories
- NASA Says Latest Curiosity Rover Photos are as Nice as Any National Park
- Here Are All the Ways Obama Resembles His Namesake Parasite
- SETI Astronomer Explains Why We Haven't Picked Up Alien Television (Yet)
- SpaceX is Looking For Leads On Its Falcon X Explosion
- Science Explains Why the Five Second-Rule is Totally Bogus
- Here’s What’s Next for NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Mission
- Pokéanatomy Imagines the Innards of Pokémon
- Wilderness Loss Means Gains for Pandas and Humpbacks Are Probably Temporary
- Your Nature Selfies Could Save America's National Parks
- Here's How a Man Goes Up In Flames In 'Free Fire'
- Lady Gaga's "Perfect Illusion" on Heartbreak's Connection With Coke Addiction Is Accurate
- How Long Will It Take For This Giant Ice Cube to Melt?
- Elon Musk: SpaceX Falcon 9 Explosion "Most Complex Failure Ever"
- NASA on OSIRIS-REx Mission Launch: "We Got Everything Exactly Perfect"
- OSIRIS-REx Mission Launches, Beginning 7-Year Asteroid Journey
- Why Bears Are Field-Testing Trash Cans
- The Sex Robots of J.J. Abrams' 'Westworld' Are Already Here
- There Are Actually 4 Types of Giraffes
- Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo 'Unity' Takes Flight for the First Time
- The Near-Death 'Grease' Theory Is Scientifically Plausible
- Why a Gong Sound Made Andy Murray Lose His Match
- NASA Telescope Spots Nebulae in Shape of Star Trek 'Enterprise'
- Crewed Tests of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo 'Unity' to Begin Soon
- Blue Origin is About to Test a Completely New Escape System
- The NFL Can Probably Solve CTE With Pot—But It Refuses to Do So
- It's Too Difficult For Intelligent Aliens to Ignore Humans
- This River In Russia Is Freakishly Blood-Red
- A Chinese Spaceflight Company Is Building a $1.5 Billion Space Balloon
- Masked Men Will Be the New Normal in San Francisco
- Bite-Mark Analysis Is Junk, White House Says
- Stanford Study Links Sleep and Motivation in Mouse Brains
- How Chlorine Gas, Reportedly Dropped On Syria, Incapacitates
- Dark Matter Punched Gargantuan Holes Through a Jet Stream of Stars
- Wind Patterns In the Stratosphere Just Shifted Strangely
- Your Cat Can Publish Academic Papers Without a Ph.D.
- MDMA Pills With the Tesla Logo on Them Are Ludicrously Strong
- OSIRIS-REx Will Collect An Asteroid Sample Without Landing. Here's Why
- People (Wrongly) Think Rap Is More Violent Than Country
- Patrycja Slawuta's Mindhacking Can Rewire Your Brain
- NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Won’t Be Affected By SpaceX Explosion, Says NASA
- Giant Pandas Would Have Been Better Off Without Desiigner
- Friends Help Friends on Facebook Feel Better
- Did the SpaceX Explosion Cause NASA to Cancel This Press Tour Tuesday?
- The Psychology of the Mundane Jackson Hole, WY Livestream
- Watch a Seven-Year Asteroid Mission in Four Minutes
- On His 70th Birthday, Freddie Mercury Became a Literal Rock Star
- Watch Astronaut Jeff Williams and Two Cosmonauts Return from ISS on Tuesday
- An Ancient Planetary Crash Could Have Brought Earth Its Life-Giving Carbon
- Giant Pandas Are Now "Vulnerable" Not "Endangered"
- Hungry for Chicken and Nukes, Humans Pushed Earth Into the Anthropocene
- South Carolina Bees Died Needlessly in Zika Pesticide Spraying
- European Space Agency Finally Locates Long Lost Philae Lander
- Huge Hidden Reef in Australia is Reminder We Know Nothing About Oceans
- NASA's Next Wave of Exoplanet Searches Could Even Detect Alien Vegetation
- NASA Scientist Explains We Could Have Reached Mars in 1970s, Why We Didn't
- NASA Astronomer Says What Life May Be Like on Planets Orbiting Red Dwarfs
- How Spraying for Zika Ended Up Killing Millions of Bees in South Carolina
- Scientists Explain Why Intelligent Life Might Need Violence to Evolve
- Experimental Pesticide Could Stop Mosquito by Hacking Their Immune Systems
- Peer-Reviewed Paper on "Impossible" EmDrive Propulsion Device Confirmed
- Why Is Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen So Interested in Mouse Neurons?
- The FDA Says Some Antibacterial Soap Is Useless
- Jupiter’s North Pole is "Nothing We Have Seen Or Imagined"
- One Teen's Plan to Take on the Pacific Trash Vortex
- NASA’s First Commercial Crew Flight Likely Delayed Until 2018
- Banksy Might Be the Band Massive Attack, and Science Is Reeling
- Feds Seek to Train Local Cops on Small Drones
- We've Been Blessed With the World's First Dog Twins
- NASA Sets May 2018 Launch Date for Delayed InSight Mars Mission
- Hawaii Hurricanes Might Briefly Reverse Climate Change Milestone
- These 21 New NASA Tech Proposals Could Be The Future of Space Travel
- Science Figured Out Why Your Cat is Fat and Grumpy Like Garfield
- Honest Tea's Honesty Experiment Doesn't Work
- The Camo Shark That Inspired Rihanna's Tattoo Is as Soft As Drake
- Why Scenes On Television Shows Are Literally So Dark
- NASA's New Horizons Offers Fresh Views of Kuiper Belt Planetoid Quaoar
- NASA Dawn Mission Exposes a Cryovolcano and Water Ice on Surface of Ceres
- Mark Zuckerberg is “Deeply Disappointed” About SpaceX’s Explosion
- 8 Science Books You Need to Read This Fall
- OSIRIS-REx Is on a Mission to Stop Armageddon Before It Happens
- Why We Secretly Love Awful Movies
- A Falcon 9 Rocket Just Blew Up on SpaceX's Launchpad in Florida
- "Ring of Fire" Solar Eclipse Hits Its Peak in Africa