Science Stories for 2018

Walmart Patents Cart That Reads Your Pulse, Temperature 116
Physics Holds the Key To Performing the Flipping Water Bottle Trick 56
Salmon Farmers Are Scanning Fish Faces To Fight Killer Lice 106
Economics Nobel Laureate Paul Romer Is a Python Programming Convert 106
Successful Correction of Genetic Problems In Mice Before Birth Raises Hopes of Similar Treatments For Humans 26
Hubble Telescope Hit By Mechanical Failure 141
IPCC Climate Change Report Calls For Urgent Action To Phase Out Fossil Fuels 478
First SpaceX Mission With Astronauts Set For June 2019 48
Scientists Are Working To Eliminate Senescent Cells 151
Scientists Connect the Brains of Three People, Allowing Thought-Sharing 136
Stunt Woman Tests Apple Watch With Violent Fake Falls 96
Can We Test the Speed of Light Using 'Lensing' from Supernovae? 112
NASA Switches Curiosity Rover To Backup Computer Following Glitch 78
Humans Having Sex With Neanderthals Gave Us Protection Against Ancient Epidemics 202
Researchers Created 'Quantum Artificial Life' For the First Time 55
US Military Program Could Be Seen As a Bioweapon, Scientists Warn 91
Jeff Bezos Is Planning To Ship 'Several Metric Tons of Cargo' To the Moon 108
Artificial Sweeteners Are Toxic To Digestive Gut Bacteria, Study Finds 192
A Shadowy Op-Ed Campaign Is Now Smearing SpaceX In Space Cities 264
Researchers Create 'Sans Forgetica,' a Memory-Boosting Font 151
Company That Sucks CO2 From Air Announces a New Methane-Producing Plant 142
Evidence is Mounting That a World the Size of Neptune Could be Orbiting a Giant Planet Far, Far Away 66
Wide-Scale US Wind Power Could Cause Significant Warming, Study Says 320
Lockheed Martin Unveils Plans For Huge Reusable Moon Lander For Astronauts 74
Australia Set To 'Eliminate' Cervical Cancer By 2028 181
Psychedelic Mushrooms Are Closer To Medicinal Use 79
Brain Scans Can Detect Who Has Better Skills, Research Says 39
Leon Lederman, 96, Explorer and Explainer of the Subatomic World, Dies 38
Remote Access System Hacking Is No. 1 Patient Safety Risk 35
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Awarded to Trio of Evolutionary Scientists 78
Discovery of 'Goblin' Solar System Object Bolsters the Case For Planet Nine 102
New Study Finds Incredibly High Carbon Pollution Costs -- Especially For the US and India 190
Physics Nobel Won By Laser Wizardry -- Laureates Include First Woman in 55 Years 151
The Story of Starlite, the 'Blast Proof' Material 206
At a Workshop Last Week, a CERN Scientist Said 'Physics Was Invented and Built by Men -- Not By Invitation'; CERN Has Suspended the Scientist 606
James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo Win Nobel Prize For Medicine 54
Physicists Investigate Why Matter and Antimatter Are Not Mirror Images 164
New Spray-On Coating Can Make Buildings, Cars, and Even Spaceships Cooler 86
100 Years Ago, Influenza Killed 50 Million People. Could It Happen Again? 270
Rechargeable Zinc-Air Battery Nears Commercial Release 64
Python Developer Builds Moon Lander Game As an Alexa Skill 19
Arrays of Atoms Emerge As Dark Horse Candidate To Power Quantum Computers 34
Bizarre Particles Keep Flying Out of Antarctica's Ice, and They Might Shatter Modern Physics 158
Trump Administration Sees a 7-Degree Rise in Global Temperatures By 2100 436
Researchers Refine a Device That Can Both Harvest and Store Solar Energy, and They Hope It Will One Day Bring Electricity To Rural and Underdeveloped Areas 51
Scientists Accidentally Blow Up Their Lab With Strongest Indoor Magnetic Field Ever 154
Satellite Company Partners With Jeff Bezos' AWS To Bring Internet To 'Whole Planet' 60
Scientists Can Now Peek Inside Mummies In a Whole New Way 60
Moon is Stepping Stone, Not Alternative To Mars, NASA Chief Says 64
Study Links Restricting Screen Time For Kids To Higher Mental Performance 57
After Century of Removing Appendixes, Docs Find Antibiotics Can Be Enough 77
Spheres Can Make Concrete Leaner, Greener 98
Japanese Company Announces Long-Term Plan To Develop the Moon 148
Study of 1.6 Million Grades Shows Little Gender Difference in Math and Science at School 370
Roundup Weed Killer Could Be Linked To Widespread Bee Deaths, Study Finds 209
Humans Are Causing the Earth To Wobble More Than It Should, NASA Finds 205
Across The Arctic, Lakes Are Leaking Dangerous Greenhouse Gases 127
Gut-Brain Connection Could Lead To a 'New Sense' 91
Mosquitoes Genetically Modified To Crash Species That Spreads Malaria 248
Implanted Device Helps Two People With Paralysis Walk Again 19
Alcohol Causes One In 20 Deaths Worldwide, Says WHO 211
Famed Mathematician Claims Proof of 160-Year-Old Riemann Hypothesis 193
Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land On Asteroid Ryugu 76
Researchers Create 'Spray-On' 2D Antennas 42
IAU Ad Hoc Committee Publishes Revised Set of Definitions For SETI Terms 28
MIT Develops New Type of Battery That Gobbles Up Carbon Dioxide 59
Space Junk Successfully Captured In Orbit For the First Time (with Video) 66
Japan Has Attempted To Land Two Tiny Rovers On a Distant Asteroid 51
Massive Undersea Walls Could Stop Glaciers From Melting, Scientists Say 142
Southern California Sees Its Longest Streak of Bad Air In Decades 107
Divers Are Attempting To Regrow Great Barrier Reef With Electricity 23
Giant Spiderweb Cloaks Land in Aitoliko, Greece 42
Microplastics Can Spread Via Flying Insects, Research Shows 38
What Ecstasy Does To Octopuses 129
Radio Astronomers Are Increasingly Using Convolutional Neural Networks To Sift Through Massive Amounts of Data 15
Titans of Mathematics Clash Over Epic Proof of ABC Conjecture 105
Scientists Find 'Super-Earth' In Star System From 'Star Trek' 114
Humans Simply 'Hardwired' For Laziness, Study Says 163
Reimagining of Schrodinger's Cat Breaks Quantum Mechanics -- and Stumps Physicists 273
People Tend To Cluster Into Four Distinct Personality 'Types,' Says Study 214
SpaceX Will Send Japanese Billionaire Yusaku Maezawa Around the Moon 214
Scientists Followed a Leatherback Turtle Through Hurricane Florence -- Here's What They Saw 54
Nvidia Researchers Generate Synthetic Brain MRI Images For AI Research 48
India's Space Agency Successfully Launches 2 UK Earth Observation Satellites 48
For Decades, Some of the Atomic Matter in the Universe Had Not Been Located. Recent Papers Reveal Where It Has Been Hiding 58
To Fight Climate Change, California Says 'We're Launching Our Own Damn Satellite' 308
Quantum Experiment Confirms Causality Is Fuzzy 163
SpaceX Says It Signed First Private Passenger To the Moon 143
Study Suggests BPA-Free Plastics Are Just As Harmful To Health 84
What Cardiologists Think About the Apple Watch's Heart-Tracking Feature 90
Why Can't More Than Four People Have a Conversation at Once? 75
Road Makers Turn To Recycled Plastic For Tougher Surfaces 109
FBI Mysteriously Closes New Mexico Observatory 261
Plan To Build a Genetic Noah's Ark Includes a Staggering 66,000 Species 78
Australia's Great Barrier Reef Showing 'Signs of Recovery' 50
MIT Is Building a Health-Tracking Sensor That Can See Through Walls 49
China Now the Most Prolific Contributor To Physical Sciences, Engineering, and Math 201
Scientists Discover a 'Tuneable' Novel Quantum State of Matter 82
The Explosive Problem With Recycling Phones, Tablets and Other Gadgets: They Literally Catch Fire. 66
Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% 670
FDA Chief Considers Ban of All Flavored E-Cigarettes 341
Windows 10 Will Use the Cloud To Free Up Disk Space 204
Climate Change Drives Bigger, Wetter Storms -- Storms Like Florence 270
Actuarial Science Ranked As Most Valuable College Major 216
NASA May Sell Corporate Naming Rights For Rockets, Spacecraft 141
'You Can See Almost Everything.' Antarctica Just Became the Best-Mapped Continent on Earth 110
Giant Trap Is Deployed To Catch Plastic Littering the Pacific Ocean 227
An Autonomous Sailboat Successfully Crosses Atlantic Ocean 59
Engineering Firm Plans To Tow Icebergs From Antarctica To Parched Dubai 412
'Mindful People' Feel Less Pain, Study Finds 101
OxyContin Billionaire Patents Drug To Treat Opioid Addiction 204
Wikipedia Seeks Photos of 20 Million Artifacts Lost in Brazil Museum Fire 56
Pluto Should Be Reclassified as a Planet, Experts Say 194
NASA Is Offerring $1 Million To Turn CO2 Into Sugar 174
World's Largest Offshore Wind Farm Opens Off Northwest England 175
Study Finds Probiotics 'Not As Beneficial For Gut Health As Previously Thought' 115
MIT Graduate Creates Robot That Swims Through Pipes To Find Out If They're Leaking 35
Bizarre Hexagon On Saturn May Be 180 Miles Tall 106
Japan Confirms First Radiation-Linked Death Out of Fukushima 179
Theranos To Close Shop 107
Japan To Test Mini 'Space Elevator' 114
Russia Thinks Someone With a Drill Caused the Recent ISS Air Leak 255
European Science Funders Ban Grantees From Publishing In Paywalled Journals 123
Mystery of the Cargo Ships That Sink When Their Cargo Suddenly Liquefies 183
This is the Story of the 1970s Great Calculator Race 187
Procrastination Is More About Managing Emotions Than Time, Says Study 70
CRISPR Gene Editing Fixes Muscular Dystrophy In Dogs, Humans Could Be Next 112
Lego Wants To Completely Remake Its Toy Bricks Using Plant-Based Or Recycled Materials 120
Physicists Measure Gravity With Record Precision 161
Small Leak Discovered on Russian Side of International Space Station, NASA Says 109
Climate Change Could Lead To Nutrient Deficiency For Hundreds of Millions 249
Texas Lawmakers Press NASA To Base Lunar Lander Program In Houston 128
CERN's Pioneering Mini-Accelerator Passes First Test 30
NASA Releases Thousands of Hours of Apollo 11 Mission Audio 98
China Has Withheld Samples of a Dangerous Flu Virus 239
Scientists Discover Hidden Deep-Sea Coral Reef Off South Carolina Coast 49
Air Pollution Causes 'Huge' Reduction in Intelligence, Study Reveals 269
New Computer System Helps Slash Cholera Cases in Yemen By Predicting Where Outbreaks Will Occur 44
Six To Eight Hours of Sleep Best For the Heart, Says Study 71
Sportsbooks Start Refusing More Bets From 'Wise Guys' Trying To Win 167
Nanotubes Can Shape Water Molecules Into 'Two-Dimensional Ice' 36
America's Energy Department Works With Bill Gates To Test Mini Nuclear Reactors 394
Massive Recall of Homeopathic Kids' Products Spotlights Dubious Health Claims 119
Scientists Deliver a Longer-Lasting Lithium-Oxygen Battery 82
No Healthy Level of Alcohol Consumption, Says Major Study 590
VP Pence Talks Moon Return and Mars Mission at NASA 146
New Research Suggests Evolution Might Favor 'Survival of the Laziest' 153
Poor Sleep Alters Metabolism and Boosts Body's Ability To Store Fat, Study Finds 233
Facebook Wants To Use Machine Learning To Make MRIs Faster 67
NASA Supports SpaceX Plan To Fuel Rockets With Astronauts On Board 165
Tiny Plastic Is Everywhere 210
Summer Weather Is Getting 'Stuck' Due To Arctic Warming 387
Scientists Find Direct Evidence of Ice On the Moon 16
Construction Begins On $1 Billion Telescope That Will Take Pictures 10 Times Sharper Than Hubble's 97
Vitamin D, the Sunshine Supplement, Has Shadowy Money Behind It 151
Two Months Later: NASA's Opportunity Rover Is Still Lost On Mars After Huge Dust Storm 46
Low-Carb Diets Could Shorten Life, Study Suggests 170
Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones 277
This Company Embeds Microchips in Its Employees, and They Love It 250
The Psychedelic Drug DMT Can Simulate a Near-Death Experience, Study Suggests 120
FDA Approves First Generic Version of EpiPen 136
A Paper Posted Last Month Claims To Have Achieved Superconductivity at Room Temperature, But Other Physicists Say the Data May Be Incorrect 163
NYU Offers Full-Tuition Scholarships for All Medical Students 167
Climate Change Has Doubled the Frequency of Ocean Heatwaves 260
Florida's Gulf Coast Battles Deadly And Smelly Red Tide 123
India To Launch First Manned Space Mission By 2022 73
Scientists Find Way To Make Mineral Which Can Remove CO2 From Atmosphere 307
SpaceX Reveals the Controls of Its Dragon Spacecraft For the First Time 119
Scientists Calculate the Speed of Death In Cells And It's 30 Micrometers Per Minute 32
Vaping Can Damage Vital Immune System Cells, Researchers Find 137
Mathematicians Solve Age-Old Spaghetti Mystery 73
Hackers Can Falsify Patient Vitals 26
Hundreds of Researchers From Harvard, Yale and Stanford Were Published in Fake Academic Journals 81
US Warns on Russia's New Space Weapons 179
AI Identifies Heat-Resistant Coral Reefs In Indonesia 86
IBM Promised Its AI Platform Watson Would Be a Big Step Forward in Treating Cancer. But After Pouring Billions Into the Project, the Diagnosis is Gloomy. 90
The Mining Town Where People Live Under the Earth 105
Google DeepMind's AI Beats Doctors at Spotting Eye Disease in Scan 40
Should the US Air Force Bomb Forest Fires? 342
NASA Successfully Launches Parker Solar Probe 63
Will the Food Industry Botch the Introduction Of Gene-Edited Foods? 166
Study Finds Flaw In Emergent Gravity 50
Japan's Hayabusa2 Spacecraft Reaches 'Spinning-Top' Space Rock Ryugu 43
PSA: NASA's Parker Solar Probe Is Launching Saturday Morning; Here's How To Watch 35
Monsanto Ordered To Pay $289 Million In Roundup Cancer Trial 219
EPA Staff Objected To Agency's New Rules on Asbestos Use, Internal Emails Show 212
Scientists Claim To Have Solved the Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle 235
Chemists Discover How Blue Light Speeds Blindness 144
Hack Causes Pacemakers To Deliver Life-Threatening Shocks 72
US Scientist Who Edited Human Embryos With CRISPR Responds To Critics 131
VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force 528
NASA's Newest Spacecraft Will Fly Through the Sun's Scorching Hot Atmosphere 96
AI Can Now Help Write Wikipedia Pages For Overlooked Scientists 97
US Invaded By Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating 178
Engineers Teach a Drone To Herd Birds Away From Airports Autonomously 47
When Working in Virtual Reality Makes You Sick 73
Women Die More From Heart Attacks Than Men -- Unless the ER Doc Is Female 275
Plan To Replicate 50 High-Impact Cancer Papers Shrinks To Just 18 29
Europe's Heatwave is Forcing Nuclear Power Plants To Shut Down 281
SpaceX Successfully Launches Its Used Block 5 Rocket 85
Planet At Risk of Heading Towards Irreversible 'Hothouse Earth' State 1159
Nonmonetary Incentives and the Implications of Work as a Source of Meaning 148
Satellite Internet Is Driving the Global Space Economy 29
New Anti-Cancer Drug Put Cancers To Sleep In Mice -- Permanently 56
Iconic Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Wakes Up, Phones Home 29
Air Pollution Linked To Changes In Heart Structure, Study Shows 29
High Speed Internet Is Causing Widespread Sleep Deprivation, Study Finds 63
NASA Unveils the Astronauts Who Will Relaunch Human Space Flights From US Soil 54
Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants 168
New Study Finds It's Harder To Turn Off a Robot When It's Begging For Its Life 327
Rare Blue Diamonds Lurk Deep In Earth's Core 77
Regular Sauna Users May Have Fewer Chronic Diseases 189
A Material Found To Carry Current In a Way Never Before Observed 72
Software Can Model How a Wildfire Will Spread 32
Tesla Is Building Its Own AI Chips For Self-Driving Cars 157
Fields Medals Awarded To 4 Mathematicians 75
3D-Printed Deep Learning Neural Network Uses Light Instead of Electrons 76
Bacteria Becoming Resistant To Hospital Disinfectants, Warn Scientists 122
Earth Overshoot Day Came Early This Year. That's a Bad Thing. 341
Ancient Public Library Discovered In Germany 129
NASA's Space-Suit Drama Could Delay Our Trip To the Moon 160
Terraforming Might Not Work on Mars, New Research Says 281
European Court Ruling Raises Hurdles For CRISPR Crops 100
Dads Pass On More Than Genetics In Their Sperm 108
US Military Told To Move From 'Expendable' To 'Reusable' Rockets 90
A New Shape Called the 'Scutoid' Has Been Discovered In Our Cells 29
'World View' Wants To Send You To the Stratosphere in a Balloon 26
New Richter-Like Scale Is Here To Measure Alien Signals 29
An Open Source, DIY Spacesuit Is About To Get Its First Life Or Death Test 28
Scientists Resurrect 40,000-Year-Old Worms Buried In Ice 125
'Blood Moon', the Longest Total Lunar Eclipse of the Century, Underway 45
The Peculiar Math That Could Underlie the Laws of Nature 242
Star's Black Hole Encounter Puts Einstein's Theory of Gravity To the Test 66
New Crime-Predicting Algorithm Borrows From Apollo Space Mission Tech 127
Star Spotted Speeding Near Black Hole at Centre of Milky Way 99
Native American Tribe Can't Be a 'Sovereign' Shield During Patent Review, Says Court 150
This Week's Total Lunar Eclipse Is the Longest of the Century 52
IBM Watson Reportedly Recommended Cancer Treatments That Were 'Unsafe and Incorrect' 103
Two Big Rockets Launched Early Wednesday -- Then One Landed In High Seas 81
Evidence Detected of Lake Beneath the Surface of Mars 100
Impossible Burgers' Key, Bloody Ingredient Wins FDA Approval 445
Moon Could Have Been Habitable Once, Scientists Speculate 87
A Nanoscale Look At a Complete Fly Brain 73
Scientists Take Step Toward Creating Artificial Embryos 118
SpaceX Enters a New Stage of Reusability 151
People Like Getting Thank You Notes, Research Finds 68
Rome's Subway Expansion Reveals Artifacts From The Ancient Past 42
Cell Phone Radiation May Affect Memory Performance In Adolescents, Study Finds 89
Nanoengineer Finds New Way To Recycle Lithium-Ion Batteries 72
Star Trek: Discovery's Season 2 Trailer Teases Spock, Christopher Pike, and Tig Notaro 164

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