Science Stories for 2015

New Maps Show Spread and Impact of Drought On California Forests 88
Dog With 3D-Printed Legs Gets an Upgrade 36
Last Operating Magnox Nuclear Reactor Closes 98
Exploding Munitions Caught On Seismometer 20
SpaceX To Test Recovered First Stage, Then Put It On Display 108
Posture Affects Standing, and Not Just the Physical Kind 77
Emergency Room Visits From Distracted Walking Skyrocket 142
Russia Cancels All Moon Missions Till 2025 135
Interviews: Ask Ray Kurzweil a question 174
NASA Uncertain How To Proceed In Developing Deep Space Module 120
Fixing JavaScript's Broken Random Number Generator 136
The AI Anxiety 207
Allegations of Data Manipulation At Theranos 97
Giant Squid Filmed At Japanese Marina 57
How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? 194
Star Wars Fans and Video Game Geeks 'More Likely To Be Narcissists,' Study Finds 182
NASA and China's Yutu Rover Are Still Making Discoveries On the Moon 34
Why String Theory Is Not Science 288
UCLA Creates Super-Strong, Super-Light Metal 70
Estimating SpaceX's Reusable Rocket Cost Savings 163
NASA Rings Out 2015 With Close Looks At Ceres and Enceladus 15
Apollo 17 Soil Matches Ancient Earth's Ocean Ridges In Water Content 78
Physicists Theorize Out How To Retrieve Information From a Black Hole 82
Now NASA Wants To Grow Potatoes On Mars For Real 95
Before Google There Was the Chemical Rubber Company 143
ORNL Restores US Capability To Produce Plutonium-238 129
Nicolas Cage To Return Rare Stolen Dinosaur Skull To Mongolia 95
Poverty Stunts IQ In the US But Not In Other Developed Countries 519
Cold Fusion and the Reputation Trap 344
The Science Behind the Paris Climate Accords 118
Sketchable, Stretchable Circuits 34
NASA Has Suspended Its Next Mission To Mars 46
SpaceX Lands Falcon 9 Rocket At Cape Canaveral 373
NASA Is Creating a Virtual Reality Mission To Mars 24
Can Electric Signals In Earth's Atmosphere Predict Earthquakes? 71
Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong 294
Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself With 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria 206
Should a Mars Colony Be Independent? 295
Games Involving Candy Stimulate Kids' Appetites 43
Andy Weir, Author of 'The Martian,' Is Writing a Novel Set On the Moon 73
ISRO Launches Six Singaporean Satellites 29
Physicists Find New Evidence For Helium 'Rain' On Saturn 27
Astronomers Successfully Predict Appearance of Supernova 86
Contradicting Previous Study, Cancer Risk Has Strong Environmental Component 54
NSF and Federal Partners Award $37M To Advance Nation's Co-robots 13
How Brain Architecture Leads To Abstract Thought 106
China Launches Dark Matter Space Probe 71
As Sea Levels Rise, Are Coastal Nuclear Plants Ready? 302
Geneticists Push For Databases Over Journals As Main Source of Information 31
Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions 340
The FAA To Facilitate American Commercial Participation In the ESA Moon Village 31
Budget Agreement Boosts US Science 52
Hype In Science Papers On the Rise 84
The Astronaut Hopeful's Manifesto 33
Mars Colonies and Class Warfare 414
Galloping Gertie, Engineering's Most Misunderstood Failure 168
What the Mites On Your Face Say About Where You Came From 72
Leaded Gas, CFCs, and the Dark Side of Progress 184
NASA Looks To PlayStation VR To Train Space Robot Operators 13
Clouds May Hide Water On Alien Worlds 27
European Space Agency Records Leaked For Amusement, Attackers Say 74
Persistent Storm Detected On Low-Mass Star 39
Asteroid Impact Helped Create the Birds We Know Today 67
Looking Back At Apollo 17, and Why We Stopped Going To the Moon 189
Why Haven't the Arms of Spiral Galaxies Wound Up After All This Time? 94
Chipotle Plans To DNA Test Produce After E-Coli Outbreaks In Nine States 147
Looking For Jupiter-Class Planets Indicates Solar Systems Like Ours Are Rare 90
Why Is Gravity the Weakest Force? 207
Huge, Jupiter-Like Storm Rages On Cool 'Failed Star' 38
Rodent Neural Activity Has a Geometric Structure 27
Study: Happiness Won't Extend Your Life After All 108
Physicists (String Theorists) and Philosophers Debate the Scientific Method 383
Quantum Computer Security? NASA Doesn't Want To Talk About It 86
Musk Announces Return-to-Flight Date For Falcon 9 Rocket 114
1 in 3 Patients Will Have Their Healthcare Records Compromised 68
Simulation Pinpoints the Most Likely Spots For Life In the Milky Way 86
Japan Releases AKATSUKI's Pictures of Venus 44
Disease-Resistant Pigs Latest Win For Gene Editing Technology 125
How the Thirty Meter Telescope Ruling Will Impact Future Astronomy Projects 251
Spike TV Is Turning Red Mars Into a TV Series 39
MIT Researchers Develop Triple Helix MicroRNA Cancer Treatment 29
Prolonged Sitting and Poor Sleep Can Work Together To Shorten Your Life 115
Google Finds D-Wave Machine To Be 10^8 Times Faster Than Simulated Annealing 157
What If Someone Uses This DIY CRISPR Kit To Make Mutant Bacteria? 115
Japan Defends Scientific Value of New Plan To Kill 333 Minke Whales 214
A New Technique For Creating Diamonds Discovered 119
Japanese Space Probe Akatsuki Enters Orbit Around Venus Five Years Late 51
NASA 'Moving On' From Low-Earth Orbit 118
Movies of Cold War Bomb Tests Hold Nuclear Secrets 61
Paris Climate Change Talks Yield First Draft 138
Cygnus Launches In First Mission Since Antares Rocket Explosion 39
Researchers Are Developing Cure for Human Pain 151
India Wins Contract To Launch Private Weather Satellites 34
Google Proposes 'Needle-less' System For Drawing Blood 91
Disease Threatens 99% of the Banana Market 199
Astronomers Spot Baby Galaxies Cradled In Dark Matter 73
Graphene Shows Promise For Super Strong Dental Fillings 75
New Horizons' First Ultra High Resolution Photos of Pluto Released 52
Take a Visual Tour of CyberKnife Radiosurgery 36
Scientists Working To Extend Lifespan of Pets 209
Apollo 16 Booster Impact Site Found 65
Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable 117
Controversial Experiment Sees No Evidence That the Universe Is a Hologram 157
If Climate Change Is a Problem Then Lunar Helium-3 Fueled Fusion Is the Solution 267
Scientists Begin Another Attempt To Drill Through the Earth's Crust 171
More Than Half of Kepler's Giant Exoplanets Were False Positives 88
Harvard Prof. Says Cure For Aging Could Emerge Within 5 Years 385
Giant Telescope Project Stalled By Hawaiian Natives 177
New Scientific Journal To Publish "Discrete Observations Rather Than Complete Stories" 45
Mother Blames Wi-Fi Allergy For Daughter's Suicide 503
The Race To Create a Hyperloop Heats Up 172
Why Some People Think Total Nonsense Is Really Deep 411
The Brains of Men and Women Aren't Really That Different, Study Finds 163
Xbox Kinect Technology Helps Create Higher-Quality X-Rays 14
Washington Hosts Summit On Gene Editing and 'Designer Babies' 137
Experimental Study of 29 Polyhedral Dice Using Rolling Machine, OpenCV Analysis 247
Russian Moon Landing May Take As Many As Six Launches 242
Swallow the Doctor: The Present and Future of Robots Inside Us 31
Young Climate Activists Sue Obama Over Climate Change Inaction 475
Diamond Nanothreads Could Support Space Elevator 171
Canadian, UK Law Professors Condemn Space Mining Provisions of Commercial Space Act 218
2 Planets Can Share the Same Orbit, In 3 Different Ways 73
NASA Prepares To Launch an Orion and 3 Cubesats To Deep Space: 3 Years To Go 54
Scientists Turn Gold Into Foam That's Nearly As Light As Air 70
Parts of the SpaceX Falcon-9 Rocket Found Off the Isles of Scilly 29
NASA Concludes That Comets, Not Alien Megastructures Orbit KIC 8462852 105
Japanese Company Makes Low-Calorie Noodles Out of Wood 159
Japanese Rocket Launches Its First Commercial Satellite 31
Neil deGrasse Tyson Touches Off Debate With Remarks On Commercial Space 373
Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists 497
Dark Matter Grows Hair Around Stars and Planets 171
How Computer Scientists Cracked a 50-Year-Old Math Problem 96
2015 'Dance Your PhD' Winner Announced 18
Hospitals Can 3D Print a Patient's Vasculature For Aneurysm Pre-Op Practice 21
Lori Garver Claims That NASA Is 'Wary' of Elon Musk's Mars Plans 103
Blue Origin "New Shepherd" Makes It To Space... and Back Again 121
Gene Drive Turns Mosquitoes Into Malaria Fighters 69
Understanding the Antikythera Mechanism 75
NASA Contracting Development of New Ion/Nuclear Engines 70
Ransomware Expected To Hit 'Lifesaving' Medical Devices In 2016 108
How Close Are We To a Mars Mission? 173
Telemedicine: The State of Telepresence In Healthcare 34
The Moon's Two Sides Look So Different Thanks To 4.5 Billion-Year-Old Physics 96
Pesticides Turn Bumblebees Into Poor Pollinators 93
US and China Setting Up "Space Hotline" 15
A Post-Antibiotic Future Is Looming 137
New Spectroscope Perfect For Asteroid Mining, Planetary Research 56
Florida Group Wants To Make Space a 2016 Presidential Campaign Issue 118
Satellite Wars 98
Researchers Create Plant-Circuit Hybrid 39
NASA Orders SpaceX Crew Mission To International Space Station 69
Investigation Reveals How Easy It Is To Hijack a Science Journal Website 18
You Can Look Forward To 8 More Years of Leap Second Problems 143
First Images Ever Taken of a Planet Being Formed, 450 Light-Years From Earth 36
The Information Theory of Life 90
FDA Signs Off On Genetically Modified Salmon Without Labeling 514
ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon 330
NASA Selects Universities To Develop Humanoid Robot Astronauts 21
Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home 222
MIT Helping NASA Build Valkyrie Robots For Space Missions 35
Scientists Grow Working Vocal Cord Tissue In the Lab 25
How Bill Nye Insulted NASCAR Fans About the Sport Being the "Anti-NASA" 387
First Liquid-Cooling Laser Could Advance Biological Research 55
AMA Calls For Ban On Direct-To-Consumer Advertising of Prescription Drugs 305
ULA Concedes GPS Launch Competition To SpaceX 55
DoJ Going After Makers of Dietary Supplement 161
Tape Disintegration Threatens Historical Records, But Chemistry Can Help 76
Could a Change In Wording Attract More Women To Infosec? 291
Inside the Mission To Europa 106
This October Was the Hottest Ever Measured 369
Journalist: NASA Administrator Has Short Memory on Changing Space Policy 87
Microsoft To Provide New Encryption Algorithm For the Healthcare Sector 85
World's First "Porous Liquid" Could Be Used For CO2 Sequestration 91
The Next Big IT Projects From the University Labs 29
'Shrinking Bull's-eye' Algorithm Speeds Up Complex Modeling From Days To Hours 48
Louis Friedman Says Humans Will Never Venture Beyond Mars 378
Experimental Drug Targeting Alzheimer's Disease Shows Anti-Aging Effects 101
Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon 152
Experiment On Public Pre-reviewing and Discussion of Workshop Paper Submissions 41
Neurons Can Be Changed From One Type To Another, Communication Paths Rewired 31
Earth May Have Kept Its Own Water Rather Than Getting It From Asteroids 45
Lunar Scientist Proposes Dozens of Impact Probes To Map Moon's Water 35
Space Exploration Politics -- and an Explanation of the Apollo Flag 'Mystery' (Video) 39
UK May Blacklist Homeopathy 287
It's Way Too Easy To Hack the Hospital 116
Usernames Reveal the Age and Psychology of Game Players 262
Paper Retracted After Anti-Immigrant Scientist Bans Use of His Software 418
Comet Catalina To Pass By Earth For the Final Time 54
Bill Confirming Property Rights For Asteroid Miners Passes the Senate 171
Astronomers Spot Most Distant Object In the Solar System 85
DNA Data From California Newborn Blood Samples Stored, Sold To 3rd Parties 187
The Two Modern Space Races 99
Stanford Creates Tricorder-Like Devices For Detecting Cancer and Explosives 34
Gambling Could Reveal Which Scientific Studies Are Worth Their Salt 63
Icy Volcanoes May Erupt On Pluto 32
SETI Fails To Detect Signals Coming From KIC 8462852 99
Interviews: Ask Mathematician Neil Sloane a Question 189
Global Temperature Set To Reach 1 Degree C Over Pre-Industrial Levels 735
The Neuroscientist Who Tested a Brain Implant On Himself 58
Science's "Breakthrough" Winners Earn Over $21 Million In Prizes 18
Persian Gulf Temperatures May Be At the Edge of Human Tolerance In 30 Years 488
British Spaceplane Skylon Could Revolutionize Space Travel 226
Muzzled Canadian Scientists Can Now Speak Freely With Public 197
Controversial Company Offers a New Way To Make a Baby 80
New vs. Old: a Comparison of 23andMe's Health Reports and the Raw Data 96
Veteran Spaceflight Engineer Talks About Governance for Space Exploration (Video) 12
Why New Antibiotics Never Come To Market 345
Breakthrough Algorithm Reported For Graph Isomorphsim 86
3D Printed Objects Found Toxic To Fish Embryos 108
Canada Reinstates Mandatory Census, To Delight of Social Scientists 284
When Slide Rules Were Like Cellphones 220
NASA's Maven Mission Solves the Mystery of Mars' Lost Atmosphere 120
Deep Magma Chambers Seen Beneath Mount St. Helens 66
NASA's Cassini Discovers Hydrocarbon Dunes On Titan 77
TV Networks Open Neuroscience Labs To Improve Their Shows and Ads 109
Leading Theory of Solar System's Formation Just Disproven 143
Huge Survey Shows Correlation Between Autistic Traits and STEM Jobs 345
Stanford Identifies Potential Security Hole In Genomic Data-Sharing Network 23
NASA Eagleworks Has Tested an Upgraded EM Drive 203
Why Gravity Is the Ultimate Space Telescope 42
The International Space Station Turns 15 69
US Government IT Outsourcing Is Poorly Managed 85
Forecasting the Economic Impact of a Changing Climate 249
All Editors Quit Top Linguistics Journal To Protest Elsevier's Pricing 135
Feds Have a Plan For Catastrophic Solar Flares 188
Greenland Ice Sheet Not Covered In Soot 119
Bumblebees Used For Targeted Pesticide Deliveries 23
Celebrate the 200th Birthday of George Boole With Logic 63
NASA Study Shows Net Gains For Antarctic Ice 319
NASA Releases First Images of Cassini's Dive Through the Geyser of Enceladus 26
Crime Lab Scandals Just Keep Getting Worse 245
Mother of All Apes May Have Been Surprisingly Small 33
Harnessing EVE Online For Science 49
New Artificial Fingerprints Feel Texture, Hear Sound 21
Leap Second May Be On the Chopping Block 291
University Reprimands Professor For Assigning Cheaper Textbook 363
Google Wants To Monitor Your Mental Health 105
Junkyard Owner Saves Lunar Rover Prototype 130
NASA's Bolden Claims NASA Is 'Doomed' Unless It Stays the Course To Mars 162
Chinese Hackers Targeted Insurer To Learn About US Healthcare 157
Solar Energy in Space is not Necessarily Easy to Harvest (Video) 85
FDA Approves Drug That Uses Herpes Virus To Fight Cancer 76
Evolution Can Occur Much Faster Than Previously Thought 208
Investigating the Complexity of Academic Writing 160
Cassini Probe Will Dive Through Enceladus's Water Jets 65
The International Space Station Is Home To Potentially Dangerous Bacteria 112
British Engineers Create Sonic Tractor Beam 88
Physicists Uncover Novel Phase of Matter 50
Study: Cutting Sugar From Diet Shows Immediate Health Benefits 428
Alabama Man Sold a Priceless Apollo-Era Lunar Rover Protoype For Scrap Metal 241

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