Science Stories for 2018

ADHD Drugs Aren't Doing What You Think, Scientists Warn 183
Can Nike's $250 Running Shoes Make You Run Faster? NYT Analysis Says Yes 60
New Wearable Sensor Detects Stress Hormone In Sweat 10
Who Owns the Moon? A Space Lawyer Answers 208
Some Scientists Work With China, But NASA Won't 52
AI Plus a Chemistry Robot Finds All the Reactions That Will Work 39
Weird New Fruits Could Hit Aisles Soon Thanks To Gene Editing 307
ESO's Very Large Telescope Now Delivers Images Sharper Than Hubble 139
Chinese Space Official Seems Unimpressed With NASA's Lunar Gateway 97
Frequent Smart Phone, Internet Use Linked To Symptoms Of ADHD in Teens 119
Is the Earth's Mantle Full of Diamonds? 109
Health Insurers Are Vacuuming Up Details About You -- And It Could Raise Your Rates 299
Astronomers Discover 12 New Moons Orbiting Jupiter - One on Collision Course With the Others 95
Traces of Lost Society Found in 'Pristine' Cloud Forest 88
China Negotiating For Cheaper Cancer Drugs 86
D-Wave's Quantum Computer Successfully Models a Quantum System 60
Study Suggests Buried Internet Infrastructure at Risk as Sea Levels Rise 191
Lockheed Martin Creates Its Largest 3D-Printed Space Part To Date 80
Telescope Offers 'Clearest View Yet' of Milky Way - Including Plasma Filaments 169
Australian Experiment Wipes Out Over 80% of Disease-Carrying Mosquitoes 177
HHS Plans To Delete 20 Years of Critical Medical Guidelines Next Week 414
China's Quantum Radar Could Detect Stealth Planes, Missiles 194
Astronomers Detected a 'Ghost Particle' and Tracked It To Its Source 47
Ear Implant Lets Deaf Gerbils Sense Sound From Light Signals 20
First-Ever Color X-ray on a Human 59
Killing Rats Could Save Coral Reefs 122
NASA May Have Discovered and Then Destroyed Organics on Mars in 1976 70
NASA Commercial Crew Program for Space Station Faces Delays, Report Says 32
Software Beats Animal Tests at Predicting Toxicity of Chemicals 70
Scientists Discover the World's Oldest Colors 79
Nitrogen Is In Liquid Metal Form Inside Earth's Core 70
High-Power Thermoelectric Generator Utilizes Thermal Difference of Only 5C 100
Surgical Robots Cut Training Time Down From 80 Sessions To 30 Minutes 113
Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity 164
Kepler Telescope To Send NASA Its Last Images 27
India's ISRO Conducts First Escape Test For Nation's Manned Mission To Space 25
All-time Heat Records Are Being Set All Over the World 367
Floating Between Mars and Jupiter, Ceres May Have More Water Than Earth 82
Hawaii Bans Sunscreens That Hurt Coral Reefs 65
EPA Blocks Warnings on Cancer-Causing Chemical: Report 173
Scientists Break Quantum Entanglement Record At 18 Qubits 97
NASA To Test 'Quiet' Supersonic Flights Over Texas 85
Chinese AI Beats 15 Doctors In Tumor Diagnosis Competition 79
TV Coverage of Cycling Races Can Help Document the Effects of Climate Change 171
Could Electrically Stimulating Criminals' Brains Prevent Crime? 218
First Confirmed Image of a Newborn Planet Revealed 35
Coffee Drinkers Are More Likely To Live Longer. Decaf May Do The Trick, Too 230
Scientists Use Caffeine To Control Genes 38
US Government Study Concludes: You're Probably Washing Your Hands Wrong 179
The Quest To Find Nuclear Fuel On the Moon 109
Study Suggests There's No Limit On Longevity 151
Engineers Develop Electric Car Battery That Can Heat Itself During Winter 118
Making Medical Clothing That Kills Bugs 49
Splitting Water For Fuel While Removing CO2 From the Air 247
Amazon Buys PillPack, an Online Pharmacy, For Just Under $1 Billion 49
Inside the Effort To Print Lungs and Breathe Life Into Them With Stem Cells 57
Scientists Develop Thermal Camouflage That Can Dupe Infrared Cameras 83
Ocean Spray On Saturn Moon Contains Crucial Constituents For Life 50
Plastic Recycling Is a Problem Consumers Can't Solve 251
NASA Again Delays Launch of Troubled Webb Telescope 108
Space is Full of Dirty, Toxic Grease, Scientists Reveal 163
Japan's Hayabusa 2 Spacecraft Reaches Cosmic 'Diamond' 15
We May Be All Alone In the Known Universe, a New Oxford Study Suggests 519
NASA Asks: Will We Know Life When We See It? 155
The Quest To Make Super-Cold Quantum Blobs in Space 44
Russia's Proton Rocket, Which Predates Apollo, Will Finally Stop Flying 83
Red Meat Allergies Caused By Tick Bites Are On The Rise 125
FDA Approves First Drug Derived From Marijuana Plant 116
Think Your Body Is Infested With Insects? You're Not Alone. 123
Some Science Journals That Claim To Peer Review Papers Do Not Do So 122
Can Two Injections of Tuberculosis Vaccine Cure Diabetes? 124
Can NASA Protect Earth from Catastrophic Asteroid Collisions? 92
Researchers Fish Yellowcake Uranium From the Sea With a Piece of Yarn 126
Scientists Genetically Engineer Pigs Immune To Costly Disease 80
Blue Origin Plans To Start Selling Suborbital Spaceflight Tickets Next Year 58
The World's Smallest Computer Can Fit on the Tip of a Grain of Rice 126
Alzheimer's Link To Herpes Virus In Brain, Say Scientists 57
Why Antarctica Is Getting Taller 62
Stonehenge Builders Used Pythagoras' Theorem 2,000 Years Before He Was Born 183
Mature Fish Are Found In Deeper Water Because of Humans 77
Spacecraft Hayabusa2 Returns Photos of Asteroid Prior To Contact 52
People's Egos Get Bigger After Meditation and Yoga, Says Study 191
World Trending To Hit 50% Renewables, 11% Coal By 2050: Report 202
Urgent Needs To Prepare For Manmade Virus Attacks, Says US Government Report 179
White House Issues Strategies To Combat Growing Orbital Debris Risks 86
President Trump Directs Pentagon To Create New 'Space Force' Military Branch 513
US Eyes Robot Moon Missions as it Prepares For Astronauts' Return 88
Dutch Town Uses High-Tech Streetlights To Keep Their Bats Happy 80
Man Reports PillCam Stuck In His Gut For Over 12 Weeks 183
Studies Find Evidence That Meditation Is Demotivating 163
Was the Stanford Prison Experiment a Sham? 136
Machine Figures Out Rubik's Cube Without Human Assistance 86
NASA's Most Experienced Astronaut Retires, Spent 665 Days In Space 49
We're All Getting Dumber, Says Science 558
$950 Million Large Hadron Collider Upgrade 'Could Upend Particle Physics' 196
The Most Important Study of the Mediterranean Diet Has Been Retracted 115
Making Buildings, Cars and Planes From Materials Based on Plant Fibres 51
Stephen Hawking's Voice Beamed Into Space as His Ashes Are Interred 111
Antarctica Is Melting Three Times As Fast As a Decade Ago 289
Nearly Half the Patents on Marine Genes Belong To Just One Company 157
MIT's AI Uses Radio Signals To See People Through Walls 76
Giant African Baobab Trees Die Suddenly After Thousands of Years 175
Honeybees Seem To Understand the Notion of Zero, Study Finds 154
Mars Opportunity Rover Is In Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm 105
Experimental Spit Test Could Identify Men Most At Risk of Prostate Cancer 58
A Serious New Hurdle For CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find Two Studies 110
Canada's 'Random' Immigration Lottery Uses Microsoft Excel, Which Isn't Actually Random 224
NASA Makes Two Decades of Satellite Images of Earth Available To the Public 43
In the Trump Administration, Science Is Unwelcome. So Is Advice. 711
University Seeks Volunteers For 'Hotel Influenza' 51
Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Seeks Investors For New Company 108
New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes Up To Prepare For Historic Flyby of Distant Object 36
Suicide Rates Are Up 30 Percent Since 1999, CDC Says 478
Sucking CO2 From Air Is Cheaper Than Scientists Thought 383
NASA Mars Rover Finds Organic Matter in Ancient Lake Bed 148
Why a Group of Physicists Watched a Clock Tick For 14 Years Straight 106
Majority of Americans Believe It Is Essential That the US Remain a Global Leader in Space 286
Hurricanes Are Moving More Slowly, Which Means More Damage 96
Judge Orders EPA To Produce Science Behind Pruitt's Climate Claims 428
An Average Earth Day Used To Be Less Than 19 Hours Long 113
Scientists May Have Discovered a New Fundamental Particle: Sterile Neutrino 94
NASA Extends Juno Jupiter Mission By Three Years 21
SpaceX Delays Plans To Send Space Tourists To Circle Moon 124
Doctors Hail World First as Woman's Advanced Breast Cancer is Eradicated 162
Russian Scientists Upgrade Nuclear Battery Design To Increase Power Output 150
How Microbes Survive Clean Rooms and Contaminate Spacecraft 24
NASA Wants 40 Social Media Users To Attend SpaceX's Next Launch 23
Is Pluto Actually a Mash-Up of a Billion Comets? 74
Scientists Race To Find Who is Pumping a Dangerous Gas Into the Atmosphere 355
NASA Spacecraft Finds Methane Ice Dunes On Pluto 32
FDA Halts One of the First Human CRISPR Studies Before it Begins 109
China Overtakes US For Healthy Lifespan, WHO Data Finds 286
AI Better Than Dermatologists At Detecting Skin Cancer, Study Finds 60
Great Barrier Reef Has Died Five Times In Last 30,000 Years, Study Says 97
Sonic and Ultrasonic Attacks Damage Hard Drives and Crash OSes 102
De Beers To Sell Diamonds Made In a Lab 415
HoloLens Can Act As Eyes For Blind Users and Guide Them With Audio Prompts, New Research Shows 25
Why Thousands of AI Researchers Are Boycotting the New Nature Journal 62
Invisible Scum on Sea Cuts CO2 Exchange With Air 'By Up To 50%' 94
Ask Slashdot: Can a City Really Sue an Oil Company For Climate Change? 301
U.S. Passes 'Right to Try' Law Allowing Experimental Medical Treatments 169
How Canada Ended Up As An AI Superpower 64
Birds Had To Relearn Flight After Meteor Wiped Out Dinosaurs, Fossil Records Suggest 60
Gut Sensor Could Monitor Health -- and Beam Results to a Smartphone 27
As The Planet Warms, We'll Be Having Rice With A Side Of CO2 275
Is Cockroach Milk the Ultimate Superfood? 254
Newest NOAA Weather Satellite Suffers Critical Malfunction 53
Missing Climate Goals Could Cost the World $20 Trillion 219
Ariane Chief Seems Frustrated With SpaceX For Driving Down Launch Costs 165
Money's Better Than E-Cigs Or Nicotine Gum At Helping Smokers Quit, Says Study 132
Legend of Loch Ness Monster Will Be Tested With DNA Samples 75
Giant Predatory Worms Are Invading France 250
SpaceX Flies Satellites For Iridium, NASA In 10th Launch of 2018 28
Asteroid From Another Star System Found Orbiting Wrong Way Near Jupiter 84
German Test Reveals That Magnetic Fields Are Pushing the EM Drive 309
A New World's Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine 82
Human Race Just 0.01% of All Life But Has Destroyed 83% of Wild Mammals, Study Finds 192
China Launches Satellite To Explore Dark Side of Moon 120
Scientists Transfer Memory Between Snails 92
Did Octopuses Come From Outer Space? 256
Anti-GMO Activists Slow Scientists Breeding a CO2-Reducing Superplant 211
Astronomers Discovered the Fastest-Growing Black Hole Ever Seen 69
Can This New Treatment Stop the Common Cold? 67
In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need? 34
US Government Wants To Start Charging For Landsat, the Best Free Satellite Data On Earth 239
'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio 236
US Births Dip To 30-Year Low 571
Kilauea Volcano Erupts On Hawaii's Big Island 56
NASA's Atomic Fridge Will Make the ISS the Coldest Known Place in the Universe 98
First Measurement of Distribution of Pressure Inside a Proton 174
NASA Says Humans Are Causing Massive Changes In Location of Water Around the World 99
Scientists Find Physically Demanding Jobs Are Linked To Greater Risk of Early Death 169
A Fleet of Sailing Robots Sets Out To Quantify the Oceans 76
California Bypasses Science To Label Coffee a Carcinogen 277
Moon of Jupiter Prime Candidate For Alien Life After Water Blast Found 134
California Study To Examine the Influence of a Healthy Diet On Patients 242
Plastic Bag Found at the Bottom of World's Deepest Ocean Trench 166
Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' 199
James Harrison, Who Has Helped Save Lives of More Than 2.4 Million Australian Babies, Retires 97
Reporter Shares Experience of Visiting a Flat Earth Convention 356
AI Systems Should Debate Each Other To Prove Themselves, Says OpenAI 56
Illinois To Sue EPA For Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls 127
Scientists To Grow 'Mini-Brains' Using Neanderthal DNA 71
NASA Will Send Helicopter To Mars To Test Otherworldly Flight 103
SpaceX Successfully Launches Satellite With New Upgraded 'Block 5' Falcon 9 Rocket 85
Earth's 'Bigger, Older Cousin' Maybe Doesn't Even Exist 52
'Father of GPS' Receives the IEEE Medal of Honor 22
AI Trained To Navigate Develops Brain-Like Location Tracking 40
Trump White House Quietly Cancels NASA Research Verifying Greenhouse Gas Cuts 291
Large Island Declared Rat-Free in Biggest Removal Success 134
'Yes, Pluto Is a Planet' 301
Supercomputers Are Driving a Revolution In Hurricane Forecasting 66
One of the Milky Way's Fastest Stars Is an Invader From Another Galaxy 92
States Turn To an Unproven Method of Execution: Nitrogen Gas 646
Jay-Z's Tidal Accused of Faking Kanye West, Beyonce Streaming Numbers 43
Congress Is Quietly Nudging NASA To Look for Aliens 113
Potential New Cure Found For Baldness 132
A Stealthy Harvard Startup Wants To Reverse Aging in Dogs, and Humans Could Be Next 170
Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? 391
Orbits of Jupiter and Venus Affect Earth's Climate, Says Study 208
Ask Slashdot: Do Citizen Science Platforms Exist? 105
Could SpaceX Rocket Technology Put Lives At Risk? 296
Alan Turing's Chemistry Hypothesis Turned Into a Desalination Filter 38
Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Reach Highest Point In 800,000 Years 433
'Biohacker' Who Injected Himself With DIY Herpes Treatment Found Dead 251
NASA Launches a New Mission To Mars 73
Yale Physicists Find Signs of a Time Crystal 58
Abbott Addresses Life-Threatening Flaw In a Half-Million Pacemakers 20
'Biology Will Be the Next Big Computing Platform' 70
60-Year-Old Maths Problem Partly Solved By Amateur 161
Can We Live Without Concrete? 407
NASA Successfully Tests New Nuclear Reactor For Future Space Travelers 178
Hawaii's Kilauea Volcano Erupts, Prompting Evacuation Orders 69
Graphene Makes Concrete Twice As Strong While Reducing Carbon Emissions 90
Lightning Struck Her Home. Then Her Brain Implant Stopped Working. 68
Hawaii To Ban Certain Sunscreens To Protect Coral Reefs 112
The Longest Straight Path You Could Travel On Water Without Hitting Land 141
NASA To Send 1 Million People's Names To the Sun 76
YouTube Is Removing Some Nootropics Channels 243
Calcium-Based MRI Sensor Enables More Sensitive Brain Imaging 30
Russia Launches Floating Nuclear Power Plant That's Headed To the Arctic 163
AI Researchers Revolt Against a New Paywalled Nature Journal 49
Pristine Lakes Are Filled With Toxins 100
Great Barrier Reef Gets $379 Million Boost After Coral Dies Off 104
Blue Origin Launches Its First Test Flight of 2018 57
Can A New HIV Drug Kill The Virus That Causes AIDS? 73
Can We Fight Climate Change With Carbon-Absorbing Rocks? 167
Scientists Confirmed a New DNA Structure Inside Human Cells 36
Bill Gates: U.S. Education Harder to Improve Than Infant Mortality Rates 252
EU Votes To Ban Bee-Harming Pesticides 130
Blue Light Like That From Smartphones Linked To Some Cancers, Study Finds 140
Rick Dickinson, Designer of Sinclair Spectrum Home Computers, Dies 49
In First, Doctors Treat Rare Genetic Disorder With an Injection In Utero 52
NASA To Cancel Lunar Resource Prospector Mission 95
NASA To Pay More For Less Cargo Delivery To the Space Station 172
Einstein's 'Spooky Action' Has Been Demonstrated On a Massive Scale For the First Time 278
Jeff Bezos Says He Liquidates a $1 Billion of Amazon Stock Every Year To Pay For His Rocket Company Blue Origin 96
Researchers Are Keeping Pig Brains Alive Outside the Body 150
ESA Releases Largest Star Map Ever Online 26
Medicare To Require Hospitals To Post Prices Online 156
Scientists Discover That Uranus Smells Like Rotten Eggs 76
Incredible New Gif Shows Cosmic 'Snow' On the Surface of a Comet 89
EPA Proposes Limits To Science Used In Rulemaking 314
Scientists Plan Huge European AI Hub To Compete With US 69
Cow Could Soon Be Largest Land Mammal Left Due To Human Activity, Says Study 245
AI Trained on Images from Cosmological Simulations Surprisingly Successful at Classifying Real Galaxies in Hubble Images 20
Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? 457
MIT Researchers Developed a 'System For Dream Control' 54
Google's AR Microscope Quickly Highlights Cancer Cells 42
Doctors Tried To Lower $148K Cancer Drug Cost; Makers Tripled Its Price 384

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