Science Stories for 2018

Scientists Drill Into 3,500 Feet of Ice To Reach a Mysterious Antarctic Lake 88
Nancy Grace Roman, 'Mother Of Hubble' Space Telescope, Has Died, At Age 93 65
Under Current Policies, Residential Batteries Increase Emissions In Most Cases 182
A Journey Into the Solar System's Outer Reaches, Seeking New Worlds To Explore 88
EPA Proposes Rule Change That Would Let Power Plants Release More Toxic Pollution 400
Hybrid Rice Engineered With CRISPR Can Clone Its Seeds 145
Tech Firm Sigfox Develops Tiny Tracker To Help Fight Rhino Poaching 46
AI Automatically Sorts Cancer Cells 27
Whale Shark Tourism Harms Coral Reefs 62
50 Years Ago Today, Apollo 8 Changed Humanity's Vision of Earth Forever 92
Trump Signs Legislation To Boost Quantum Computing Research With $1.2 billion 120
'Sending Astronauts To Mars Would be Stupid' 473
SpaceX Launches Air Force's Most Powerful GPS Satellite Ever Built 48
Researchers Show Parachutes Don't Work, But There's A Catch 185
Climate Change Drives Fish Into New Waters, Remaking an Industry 87
'Something Weird Is Going On' as New Horizons Approaches Distant Asteroid 83
51st Known Mersenne Prime Number Found 65
What Happens After Surprising DNA Test Results? 238
Scientists Find a Brain Circuit That Could Explain Seasonal Depression 43
An Amoeba-Based Computer Found Solutions To 8-City Traveling Salesman Problem 87
Mars Express Beams Back Images of Ice-Filled Korolev Crater 104
China Launched More Rockets Into Orbit In 2018 Than Any Other Country 58
Breakthrough Ultrasound Treatment To Reverse Dementia Moves To Human Trials 167
Researchers Genetically Modify Common Houseplant To Remove Air of Hazardous Compounds 69
Giant Trap Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean Isn't Working 199
India Launches Hefty Communications Satellite Into Orbit to Cap Busy 2018 48
2018 Statistic of the Year: 90.5 Percent of Plastic Waste Has Never Been Recycled 162
Saturn's Rings Are Disappearing At a 'Worst-Case Scenario' Rate, NASA Says 228
Researchers Demonstrate Teleportation Using On-Demand Photons From Quantum Dots 76
SpaceX Raising $500 Million To Help Build Its 'Starlink' Satellite Broadband Network 116
Researchers Make RAM From a Phase Change We Don't Entirely Understand 104
The Most-Distant Solar System Object Discovered 79
Junk Food Cravings Linked To a Lack of Sleep, Study Suggests 42
Emergence of Lab-Grown Meat Poses New Questions for Religious Leaders 340
The Decline of American Peyote 81
A Bright Green 'Christmas Comet' Will Fly the Closest To Earth In Centuries 111
Nearly 200 Countries Agree On Global Climate Pact Rules After Impasse 194
Screen Time Changes Structure of Kids' Brains, NIH Study Shows 94
NASA's Hubble Telescope Discovers An 'Evaporating' Planet 47
NASA's Jupiter Mission Juno Reveals Giant Polar Storms 21
Supernovae May Explain Mass Extinctions of Marine Animals During Pliocene Era 76
Neurosurgery Could Spread Protein Linked To Alzheimer's, Study Finds 63
Virgin Galactic Successfully Reaches Space 87
Arctic Posts Second Warmest Year On Record In 2018, NOAA Says 207
The Record For High-Temperature Superconductivity Has Been Smashed Again 145
South Australia To Be Home To Australia's New Space Agency 71
Scientists Identify Vast Underground Ecosystem Containing Billions of Micro-organisms 87
Nasa's Voyager 2 Probe 'Leaves the Solar System' 151
Scientists Say Most Diverse Coral Site Ever Seen on Great Barrier Reef Discovered 38
Freshwater is Getting Saltier, Threatening People and Wildlife 164
Were Those Strange Waves Rippling Across Earth Caused By Magma Shfits? 55
'Great Dying': Rapid Warming Caused Largest Extinction Event Ever, Report Says 210
Mice Given an Experimental Gene Therapy Don't Get Fat 167
NASA's InSight Lander Captures First 'Sounds' of Wind On Mars 40
China's Chang'e-4 Launches On Mission To the Moon's Far Side 41
Scientists Develop 10-Minute Universal Cancer Test 83
Apple Watch Series 4 ECG, Irregular Heart Rate Features Are Now Available 39
Sea Levels May Rise More Rapidly Due To Greenland Ice Melt 282
24 Amazon Workers Sent To Hospital After Robot Accidentally Unleashes Bear Spray 221
First Baby Born After Deceased Womb Transplant 43
SpaceX Sends Dragon To ISS But Falcon 9 Rocket Misses Landing Pad 133
Bizarre 'Dark Fluid' With Negative Mass Could Dominate the Universe 166
China Set To Launch First-Ever Spacecraft to the Far Side of the Moon, Will Attempt To Grow Plant There 138
Google's DeepMind Predicts 3D Shapes of Proteins 51
Sci-Hub 'Pirate Bay of Science' Blocked In Russia Over Medical Studies 65
SpaceX Launches More Than 60 Small Satellites Into Orbit 54
Despite CRISPR Baby Controversy, Harvard University Will Begin Gene-Editing Sperm 167
New Male Contraceptive Gel Enters Clinical Trials 193
Why It's Easier To Make Decisions For Someone Else 70
Italian Bioengineer Develops 3D-Printed Vegan Steak From Plant-Based Proteins 297
Dark Web Dealers Voluntarily Ban Deadly Fentanyl 158
Monarch Butterfly Populations In the West Are Down an Order of Magnitude 100
Can New Metal-Air Transistors Replace Semiconductors and Continue Moore's Law? 153
Richard Branson Says He's Going to Send People Into Space by Christmas 89
Recent Quasar Observations Support Lots of Mini-Bangs Instead of One Big Bang 263
Astronomers Measure Total Starlight Emitted Over 13.7 Billion Years 108
Shocking Maps Show How Humans Have Reshaped Earth Since 1992 88
Turns Out Mitochondria Can Come From Fathers Too 64
NIST's New Atomic Clock Is So Precise Our Ability To Measure Gravity Constrains Its Accuracy 92
NASA Is Outsourcing Its Next Moon Lander To a Private Company 83
US Life Expectancy Falls Further 336
China Halts Work by Team on Gene-Edited Babies 80
Amazon Is Launching Pay-As-You-Go Cloud Computing In Space 30
Researchers Develop Hydrogel-Based Electrodes For Brain Implants 32
Google Has a Plan To Eliminate Mosquitoes Around the World 326
Amazon Starts Selling Software To Mine Patient Health Records 84
Large Genetic Study Finds First Genes Connected With ADHD 117
China Expands Research Funding, Luring US Scientists and Students 93
CO2 Emissions Rose for the First Time in 4 Years 317
China is Planning To Build a Deep Sea Base For Unmanned Submarine Science and Defense Operations in the South China Sea 69
Trump Says He Doesn't Believe Government Climate Report Finding in a New Low 673
ISS Marks 20 Years Orbiting Earth With Longest Timelapse Ever Made In Space 54
NASA's InSight Successfully Lands on Mars 175
Chinese Scientist Says He's First To Create Genetically Modified Babies Using CRISPR 142
In a Wide-Ranging Interview, Elon Musk Talks About Visiting Mars, Battle To Keep Tesla Afloat, and Neuralink 180
Scientists Discover Rare Giant Viruses Lurking In Harvard Forest Soil 94
Many of the Climate Impacts Predicted in the Last National Climate Assessment, in 2014, Are No Longer Theoretical 346
Standing Desks Are Overrated 108
Seaweed Could Make Cows Burp Less Methane and Cut Their Carbon Hoofprint 89
Science Journals Are Laughing All the Way To the Bank, Locking the Results of Publicly Funded Research Behind Exorbitant Paywalls. This Must Be Stopped. 140
Rising Seas Give Island Nation a Stark Choice: Relocate or Elevate 243
Controversial Spraying, Sun-Dimming Method Aims To Curb Global Warming 256
Climate Change Will Have Dire Consequences For US, Federal Report Concludes 314
Leaning Tower of Pisa is Leaning Less Than Before, Say Experts 77
NASA Will Land InSight on Mars With Cunning -- and Lots of Cork 70
Decaf Tea Found In The Wild 101
Nearby Star Is Sun's Long-Lost Sibling 95
First Ever Plane With No Moving Parts Takes Flight 264
Paralyzed Individuals Operate Tablet With Brain Implant 61
Elon Musk Renames Big Falcon Rocket To 'Starship' 124
Human Images From World's First Total-Body Scanner Unveiled 54
Elon Musk's Extracurricular Antics Reportedly Spark a NASA Safety Probe At SpaceX 225
Hawaii's Mars Simulations Are Canceled 87
NASA Chooses the Landing Site For Its Mars 2020 Rover Mission 58
New Experimental Lockheed Supersonic Jet Starts Production 88
NASA Considers Selling Seats on the Spacecraft Used For International Space Station 75
NASA 'Will Eventually' Retire Its New Mega-Rocket if SpaceX, Blue Origin Can Safely Launch Their Own Powerful Rockets 113
Bill Nye: We Are Not Going To Live on Mars, Let Alone Turn It Into Earth 646
Is Quantum Computing Impossible? 222
Antares Successfully Launches ISS Re-Supply Cargo Ship 40
Mars Opportunity Rover Appears To Contact Earth; Turns Out To Be a False Alarm 55
Some Birds Are Excellent Tool-Makers 81
People Sensitive To Caffeine's Bitter Taste Drink More Coffee, Study Finds 60
Alphabet Unit Halts Glucose-Detecting Contact Lens Project 43
NASA Decommissions the Kepler Space Telescope 60
There Is No Link Between Insomnia and Early Death, Study Finds 58
Science is Getting Less Bang for Its Buck 248
Kilogram Gets a New Definition 187
Remote Workers Can Get a Cushy Apartment, Free Office Space, and $10K If They Move To Tulsa 190
Inventors of Omnidirectional Wind Turbine Win James Dyson Award 129
SpaceX Launched and Landed Another Used Falcon 9 Rocket, Marking Its Record-Tying 18th Launch of the Year 72
Fake Fingerprints Can Imitate Real Ones In Biometric Systems, Research Shows 64
A Massive Impact Crater Has Been Detected Beneath Greenland's Ice Sheet 172
Climate Change is Making Hurricanes Even More Destructive, Research Finds 212
United Nations Considers a Test Ban on Evolution-Warping Gene Drives 150
Scientists Acknowledge Key Errors in Study of How Fast the Oceans Are Warming 280
Google Accused of 'Trust Demolition' Over Health App 60
Large, Strangely Dim Galaxy Found Lurking On Far Side of Milky Way 68
Tantalizing But Preliminary Evidence of a 'Brain Microbiome' 65
Google Is Absorbing DeepMind's Health Care Unit To Create An 'AI Assistant For Nurses and Doctors' 27
Douglas Rain, Voice of HAL 9000 In '2001: A Space Odyssey,' Dies At 90 53
Study Opens Route To Ultra-Low-Power Microchips 41
Better 'Nowcasting' Can Reveal What Weather is About To Hit Within 500 Meters 45
Rocket Lab's Modest Launch Is Giant Leap For Small Rocket Business 36
How Nature Defies Math in Keeping Ecosystems Stable 103
Did We Miss an Interstellar Comet Four Years Ago? 59
AI Researchers Predict Alzheimer's Years Before Diagnosis 43
How Biologists Are Creating Life-like Cells From Scratch 42
How Dad's Stresses Get Passed Along To Offspring 109
A Robot Scientist Will Dream Up New Materials To Advance Computing 41
NASA is Showering One City With Sonic Booms and Hoping No One Notices 95
Corneas Could Be the First Mainstream Application of Bioprinting 35
A New Method To Produce Steel Could Cut 5 Percent of CO2 Emissions 121
United Nations Says Earth's Ozone Layer Is Repairing 142
The Future of the Kilo: a Weighty Matter 207
Existing Laser Technology Could Be Fashioned Into Earth's 'Porch Light' To Attract Alien Astronomers, Study Finds 257
Why Doctors Hate Their Computers 292
Mystery Math Whiz and Novelist Advance Permutation Problem 108
Harvard Researchers Suggest Interstellar Object Might Have Been From Alien Civilization 162
SpaceX's Helipad-Equipped Boat Will Bring Astronauts Safely Home 29
Google Has Enlisted NASA To Help it Prove Quantum Supremacy Within Months 87
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Wellcome Trust, Two of the World's Largest Biomedical Research Funders, Back Europe's Ambitious Open-Access Plan 22
Childhood Obesity Linked To Air Pollution From Vehicles 166
How Llamas Could Help Us Fight the Flu 56
People Who Prefer Black Coffee Are More Likely To Have Psychopathic Or Sadistic Traits, Study Finds 378
America Braces For Daylight Saving Time - And Missing Medical Records 368
Billionaires Are Chasing The Holy Grail of Energy: Fusion 185
Are Touchscreens Robbing a Generation of Surgeons of Their Dexterity? 68
Bill Gates Backs A Company That Doubles the Shelf Life of Vegetables 108
Have We Really Wiped Out 60 Percent of Animals? 86
NASA, ESA Release First 8K Video From Space 21
Tetris May Help Sooth Your Worried Mind, Study Says 40
CERN Begins New Antimatter Gravity Experiments 90
Researchers Launch Plan To Sequence 66,000 Species In the UK 13
Russia Blames a Bad Sensor For Its Failed Soyuz Rocket Launch 57
NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Is Dead 86
Study of Cellphone Risks Finds 'Some Evidence' of Link To Cancer, At Least In Male Rats 153
About That Monstrous Black Hole We're All Orbiting 101
Elon Musk Shakes Up SpaceX's Starlink Satellite Division By Firing a Bunch of Managers 136
Scientists Find Link Between Parkinson's Disease and the Appendix 135
Spinal Implant Helps Three Paralyzed Men Walk Again 25
Scientists Warn That World's Wilderness Areas Are Disappearing 72
How NASA Will Use Robots To Create Rocket Fuel From Martian Soil 79
Startling New Research Finds Large Buildup of Heat in the Oceans, Suggesting a Faster Rate of Global Warming [Update] 407
Hawaii Supreme Court Approves Thirty Meter Telescope On Mauna Kea 177
With Fuel Exhausted, NASA Retires Kepler Telescope 124
How a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone In a Medical Facility 290
Humanity Has Wiped Out 60% of Animal Populations Since 1970 303
Air Pollution Is the 'New Tobacco,' Warns WHO 161
Your Brain Waves Could Soon Replace Passwords Entirely 104
Forget Better Batteries, Nothing That Exists Or is in Development Can Store Energy as Well, And as Cheaply, as Compressed Air 307
In a Crash, Should Self-Driving Cars Save Passengers or Pedestrians? 2 Million People Weigh In 535
Chinese Privately Developed Rocket Fails To Reach Orbit 66
China Produces Nano Fibre That Can Lift 160 Elephants - and a Space Elevator? 240
Does Eating Organic Food Help Prevent Cancer? 151
NASA Revives Hubble Space Telescope After Three-Week Mechanical Failure 25
Mysterious White Cloud Hangs Over Martian Volcano 59
FDA Approves First New Flu Drug In 20 Years 39
Experts Want To Ban Organophosphate Pesticides To Protect Children's Health 71
Cerebellum More Involved In Cognition Than Previously Believed 40
SpaceX Is Planning To Launch a Falcon 9 For the Third Time 84
Lavender's Soothing Scent Could Be More Than Just Folk Medicine 118
Medtronic Co-Founder Who Created Wearable Pacemaker Dies At Age 94 22
Microplastics Found In Human Stools For the First Time 307
Oxygen-Rich Liquid Water May Exist on Mars 44
A Device That Can Pull Drinking Water From the Air Just Won the Latest XPrize 359
Not Exercising Worse For Your Health Than Smoking, Diabetes and Heart Disease, Study Reveals 213
How the Finnish Survive Without Small Talk 283
New Material Could Up Efficiency of Concentrated Solar Power 80
Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks Tonight With Bits of Halley's Comet 19
NASA Has Explored Manned Missions To Venus 122
Spacecraft BepiColombo Poised For Mission To Mercury 29
Earth's Inner Core Is Solid, But Squishier Than Previously Thought 66
Quantum Computers Will Break the Encryption that Protects the Internet 166
IBM Finally Proves That Quantum Systems Are Faster Than Classical Systems 79
Measurement Shows the Electron's Stubborn Roundness 103
Microplastics Found In 90 Percent of Table Salt 190
Automation is Democratizing Experimental Science 52
Earth on Pace For Fourth-Warmest Year on Record, NOAA and NASA Say 310
One of the World's Largest Organisms is Shrinking 108
Scientists Discover Weird Sounds In Antarctic Ice Shelf 40
NASA Astronaut Details Fall To Earth After Failed Soyuz Launch 80
Chinese City 'Plans To Launch Artificial Moon To Replace Streetlights' 196
The Results of Your Genetic Test Are Reassuring. But That Can Change. 57
How Paul Allen Saved the American Search For Extraterrestrial Intelligence 48
Stephen Hawking Warns That AI and 'Superhumans' Could Wipe Humanity; Says There's No God in Posthumous Book 733
'Hyperalarming' Study Shows Massive Insect Loss 336
Microsoft Co-Founder Paul Allen Dies of Cancer At Age 65 201
Jeff Bezos Predicts We'll Have 1 Trillion Humans in the Solar System, and Blue Origin Wants To Help Get Us There 184
Climate Change Will Cause Beer Shortages and Price Hikes, Study Says 317
New Startup By a Trio of Doctors Uses Phone App To Collect Measures of People's Cognition and Emotional Health and Attempts To Detect Signs of Depression 50
Personal Genomics is Booming, But There's a Nationwide Shortage of Genetic Counselors Who Can Make Sense of that DNA Data 56
UK Steps Towards Zero-Carbon Economy 240
Struggle With Statistics? Your 'Fixed Mindset' Might Be To Blame 151
Scientists Are Getting Seriously Worried About Synthetic Smallpox 93
Stephen Hawking's Last Paper Is Now Online 70
Google AI Claims 99 Percent Accuracy In Metastatic Breast Cancer Detection 34
World's Fastest Camera Shoots 10 Trillion Frames a Second 62
Scientists Have Laid Out a Plan To Search For Life in the Universe 59
Bees Stop Flying During Total Solar Eclipses 86
Self-Healing Material Can Build Itself From Carbon In the Air 63
Scientists Create Healthy Mice With Same-Sex Parents 183
Researchers Develop 3D Printed Objects That Can Track and Store How They Are Used 16
How Genealogy Websites Make It Easier To Catch Killers 73
Moons Can Have Their Own Moons and They Could Be Called Moonmoons 168
Huge Reduction in Meat-Eating 'Essential' To Avoid Climate Breakdown 629
The Military Chooses Which Rockets It Wants Built For the Next Decade 107
Newly Discovered Volcanic 'Lost World' Is a Haven For Marine Life 47
Amazon Patents New Alexa Feature That Knows When You're ill and Offers To Sell You Medicine 59
There Could Be Massive Shards of Ice Sticking Out of Jupiter's Moon Europa 63

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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. -- Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", 1928