Science Stories for 2017

America's Doctors Are Performing Expensive Procedures That Don't Work 233
Construction Workers Find 30 Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Eggs 65
How Big Tech is Getting Involved in Your Health Care 50
Neuro, Cyber, Slaughter: Emerging Technological Threats In 2017 38
Math Says You're Driving Wrong and It's Slowing Us All Down 404
The Biggest Rocket Launches and Space Missions We're Looking Forward To in 2018 112
Russia Lost a $45 Million Satellite Because 'They Didn't Get the Coordinates Right' 101
How Pirates Of The Caribbean Hijacked America's Metric System 440
People Who Know How the News Is Made Resist Conspiratorial Thinking 368
Leaving the House Linked To Longevity in Older Adults 54
The WHO May Recognize Excessive Video Gaming As Mental Health Disorder 125
Empirical Research Reveals Three Big Problems With How Patents Are Vetted 94
If Dogs Can Smell Cancer, Why Don't They Screen People? 106
Google's Voice-Generating AI Is Now Indistinguishable From Humans 101
Flying in Airplanes Exposes People To More Radiation Than Standing Next To a Nuclear Reactor 275
NASA Begins Planning For An Interstellar Mission In 2069 143
Should Plant-Based Meat Replace Beef Completely? 669
CMU Researchers Reveal How Their AI Beat The World's Top Poker Players 36
Wired Publishes Fake Christmas Letter By Elon Musk 32
Days Before Christmas, Theranos Secures $100 Million in New Funding 96
Can We Get Global Broadband From Low-Earth Orbit Satellites? 134
Experts Cast Doubt on 'Alien Alloys' in the New York Times' UFO Story 206
The Lower Your Social Class, the 'Wiser' You Are, Suggests New Study 311
SpaceX Rocket Stuns Californians As It Carries 10 Satellites Into Space 105
Elon Musk Shows Off the Tesla Roadster That SpaceX Will Send Beyond Mars 118
Elon Musk Shows Off Near-Complete Falcon Heavy Rocket 150
US Drugmaker Raises Price of Vitamins By More Than 800% 275
Where in the World is Mars' Water? 102
FDA Approves First-Ever Gene Therapy For Inherited Form of Blindness 58
A Federal Ban On Making Lethal Viruses Is Lifted 156
NASA Advances Missions To Land a Flying Robot on Titan or Snatch a Piece of a Comet 49
Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua' Appears To Be Wrapped In An Organic Insulation Layer 242
France Passes Law To Ban All Oil, Gas Production By 2040 259
Scientists Confirm There Was Life On Earth 3.5 Billion Years Ago 176
Older Adults' Forgetfulness Tied To Faulty Brain Rhythms In Sleep, Study Says 70
CDC Director Says No Words Are Actually Banned At the CDC 177
Flat Earther Now Wants To Launch His Homemade Rocket From a Balloon 314
Trump Administration Prohibits CDC Policy Analysts From Using the Words 'Science-Based' 458
The US Military Admits It Spent $22 Million Investigating UFOs 166
NASA Uses Its First Recycled SpaceX Rocket For a Re-Supply Mission 93
Don't Keep Cellphones Next To Your Body, California Health Department Warns 344
The Science That's Never Been Cited 91
Contact Lens Startup Hubble Sold Lenses With a Fake Prescription From a Made-up Doctor 325
Astronomers Have Come Up With a Better Way To Weigh Millions of Solitary Stars 43
Noninvasive Radiation Therapy Halts Deadly Heart Rhythm 28
NASA, Google Spot Eighth Planet in Solar System Rivaling Ours 69
Space Is Not a Void 285
Solar Power and Batteries Are Encroaching On Natural Gas In Energy Production 182
The Environmental Cost of Internet Porn 302
Universities Spend Millions on Accessing Results of Publicly Funded Research 76
Why Meteoroids Explode Before Hitting the Earth 58
Paris Summit Finds New Money, Tech To Fight Climate Change 203
Ask Slashdot: What Is Your View On UFO Sightings? 384
Synthetic DNA-Based Drug Is First To Slow Progress of Huntington's Disease 35
President Trump Is Sending NASA Back To The Moon 307
Google's Machine Learning Is Analyzing Data From NASA's Kepler Space Telescope 27
Researchers Say Human Lifespans Have Already Hit Their Peak 247
New Satellite Experiment Helps Confirm Einstein's Equivalence Principle 71
Reading Information Aloud To Yourself Improves Memory 54
Toyota's New Power Plant Will Create Clean Energy From Manure 75
'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking 69
Almost All Bronze Age Artifacts Were Made From Meteorite Iron 132
Boeing CEO Says Boeing Will Beat SpaceX To Mars 128
What It Looks Like When You Fry Your Eye In An Eclipse 135
The Firestorm This Time: Why Los Angeles Is Burning 231
Earth Will Likely Be Much Warmer In 2100 Than We Anticipated, Scientists Warn 379
Victims of Mystery Attacks In Cuba Left With Anomalies In Brain Tissue 233
FCC Chair Ajit Pai Falsely Claims Killing Net Neutrality Will Help Sick and Disabled People 207
Air Pollution Harm To Unborn Babies May Be Global Health Catastrophe, Warn Doctors 132
The International Space Station is Super Germy 88
New Evidence Points To Icy Plate Tectonics On Europa 67
'Watershed' Medical Trial Proves Type 2 Diabetes Can Be Reversed 224
Why Some People Can Hear Silent GIF 167
The Compelling Case For Working Less 176
The World's Astonishing Dependence On Fossil Fuels Hasn't Changed In 40 Years 243
Fewer Toys Gives Kids a Better Quality of Playtime, Study Claims 145
Nations Agree To Ban Fishing in Arctic Ocean For At Least 16 Years 96
Silicon Valley Billionaires Award $22 Million in 'Breakthrough Prizes' 23
Two Stars Collided And Solved Half of Astronomy's Problems. Now What? 171
Can Researchers Detect Irregular Heart Rhythms with the Apple Watch? 42
Your Brain 'Blinks' When Your Attention Shifts, Researchers Discover 87
A Programing Error Blasted 19 Russian Satellites Back Towards Earth 90
SpaceX Plans To Blast a Tesla Roadster Into Orbit Around Mars 272
China's Dark Matter Probe Detects Tantalizing Signal 37
Controversial Study Claims 'Smartphone Addiction' Alters the Brain 64
Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years 127
Health Risks To Farmworkers Increase As Workforce Ages 77
SpaceX's First Falcon Heavy Launch Will Now Take Place In 2018 131
CNN Visualizes Climate Change-Driven Arctic Melt With 360-Degree VR Video 163
An Unconscious Patient With a 'DO NOT RESUSCITATE' Tattoo 454
Study Finds Dogs Are Brainier Than Cats 330
Bacteria Found On ISS May Be Alien In Origin, Says Cosmonaut 240
DNA Analysis Finds That Yetis Are Actually Bears 121
Physicists Made An Unprecedented 53 Qubit Quantum Simulator 70
Scientists Call For Ban On Glitter, Say It's a Global Hazard That Pollutes Oceans 121
This Impenetrable Program Is Transforming How Courts Treat DNA Evidence 186
AI Goes Bilingual -- Without a Dictionary 99
Destiny 2 Misrepresented XP Gains To Its Players Until the Developers Got Caught 112
Scientists Have Built Robot Muscles That Can Lift 1,000 Times Their Own Weight 119
Facebook Rolls Out AI To Detect Suicidal Posts Before They're Reported 171
Could Collapsing Antarctic Glaciers Raise Sea Levels Sooner Than Expected? 418
Big Tobacco Loses 11-Year Fight, Forced To Broadcast 'Dangers of Smoking' Ads 274
Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin? 189
Flat Earther's Homemade Rocket Launcher Breaks Down in His Driveway 246
Lightning Can Trigger Nuclear Reactions, Creating Rare Atomic Isotopes 75
Living In Nuclear Disaster Fallout Zone Would Be No Worse Than Living In London, Research Suggests 278
How Coral Researchers Are Coping With the Death of Reefs 57
Devs Working To Stop Go Math Error Bugging Crypto Software 73
Why Do Left-Handers Excel at Certain Elite Sports But Not Others? 131
Flowing Water On Mars' Surface May Just Be Rolling Sand Instead 81
Study Finds Different Types of Alcohol Can Determine Different Moods 156
Apple Scientists Disclose Self-Driving Car Research 34
Night Being 'Lost' To Artificial Light 119
The Feds Are Officially Cracking Down on Basement Biohackers 220
Turkeys Are Twice as Big as They Were in 1960 158
Russia Detects a Significant Radiation Spike In Mountains Close To Soviet-Era Nuclear Plant 125
How the Sugar Industry Tried To Hide Health Effects of Its Product 50 Years Ago 283
Flat Earther Plans To Launch Homemade Manned Rocket 555
Study of Recent Interstellar Asteroid Reveals Bizarre Shape 144
UCLA Researchers Use Solar To Create and Store Hydrogen 61
Upsurge in Big Earthquakes Predicted for 2018 88
First Ever Anti-Aging Gene Discovered In a Secluded Amish Community 159
What They Don't Tell You About Climate Change 624
46% of Americans Now Have High Blood Pressure 295
Scientists Develop Kill Switches In Case Bioengineered Microbes Go Rogue 66
Could a Helium-Resistant Material Usher In an Age of Nuclear Fusion? 128
Study of 500,000 Teens Suggests Association Between Excessive Screen Time and Depression 128
A Stable Plasma Ring Has Been Created In Open Air For the First Time Ever 113
The House's Tax Bill Levies a Tax On Graduate Student Tuition Waivers 578
Stanford Trains AI To Diagnose Pneumonia Better Than a Radiologist In Just Two Months 75
Astronomers Find An Earth-Size World Just 11 Light Years Away 175
Researchers Analyze DNA From 'Supercentenarians' Aged 110+ To Discover Secret To Longevity 98
League of Legends Rank Predicts IQ, Study Finds 85
US Scientists Try 1st Gene Editing in the Body 74
Elon Musk's 'Scientific Method' 240
What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? 197
FDA Approves Digital Pill That Tracks If Patients Have Ingested Their Medication 72
Study Finds SpaceX Investment Saved NASA Hundreds of Millions 156
More Than 15,000 Scientists From 184 Countries Issue 'Warning To Humanity' 405
Bill Gates Pledges $100 Million To Find an Alzheimer's Cure, His First Commitment To a Non-communicable Disease 135
New Study Suggests We Don't Understand Supervolcanoes 105
Asgardia Becomes the First Nation Deployed in Space 176
NASA Funds Designs for a Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Rocket 172
Is Physical Law an Alien Intelligence? 264
Your Visual Skills Are Not Correlated To Your IQ 201
Study Finds Robot Surgeons Are Actually Slower and More Expensive 44
How Two Scientists Accurately Predicted Global Warming in 1967 218
The Computer Scientist Who Prefers Voting With Paper 219
NASA Discovers Mantle Plume That's Melting Antarctica From Below 244
Ford Pilots a New Exoskeleton To Lessen Worker Fatigue 48
Exit Interview: Scott Kelly 62
Human Mini-Brains Growing Inside Rat Bodies Are Starting To Integrate 193
Cities Are Scolding Countries at UN Climate Conference To Cut Emissions 159
Indian Capital Declares Emergency as Toxic Smog Thickens By the Hour 129
NASA: We're Not Building Flying Taxi Software For Uber 24
Scientists Save Child's Life By Growing Him New Skin 107
SpaceX Rocket Engine Explodes During Test 115
NASA Is Working With Uber on Its Flying Taxi Project 51
NASA Astronaut Dick Gordon, Pilot of Gemini and Apollo 12, Dies At 88 58
EPA Approves Release of Bacteria-Carrying Mosquitoes To 20 States 133
'Quark Fusion' Produces Eight Times More Energy Than Nuclear Fusion 173
New Technology Should Be Neither Feared Nor Trusted 61
The US Is Now the Only Country In the World To Reject the Paris Climate Deal 719
Florida Attempts the Largest Hydraulic Restoration Project In the World To Save the Everglades 98
Sleep Deprivation Disrupts Brain-Cell Communication, Study Finds 87
US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub 165
The Disappearing American Grad Student 268
China Plans to Also Launch Reusable Spaceplanes by 2020 92
Hole In The Ozone Layer Smallest In 29 Years 181
Jeff Bezos Just Sold $1.1 Billion in Amazon Stock 69
3D Printing Doubles the Strength of Stainless Steel 96
Laika, the Pioneering Space Dog, Was Launched 60 Years Ago Today 74
Five New Asteroids Surprise Astronomers In Hubble Images 33
Massive Government Report Says Climate Is Warming and Humans Are the Cause 415
'Discovery of the Century': Mysterious Void Discovered In Egypt's Great Pyramid 299
The International Space Station Is Getting Its First Printer Upgrade in 17 Years 174
Scientists Have Mathematical Proof That It's Impossible To Stop Aging 177
The Asteroid That Wiped Out Dinosaurs Plunged Earth Into Catastrophic Winter 103
NASA Wants Private Company To Take Over Spitzer Space Telescope 37
Every Other Summer Will Shatter Heat Records Within a Decade 322
Can Japan Burn Flammable Ice For Energy? 153
Scientists Prove Emoticons Are Not Universally Understood 122
Entrepreneurial Space Age Began In 2009, Says Report 67
MIT Researchers Trained AI To Write Horror Stories Based On 140,000 Reddit Posts 37
New VibWrite System Uses Finger Vibrations To Authenticate Users 44
Algorithm Can Identify Suicidal People Using Brain Scans 87
SpaceX Lands the 13th Falcon 9 Rocket of the Year In Flames 106
Carbon Pollution Touched 800,000 Year Record in 2016, WMO Says 354
How Data Science Powered the Search for MH370 133
SLAC Uses Nobel Prize-Winning Technique To Investigate Battery Fires 17
Can Science Make Alcohol Safer? 107
India, China, and Japan Are All Planning Moon Missions 114
NotPetya Outbreak Left Merck Short of HPV Vaccine Gardasil 63
SpaceX Eyes 19 Launches In 2017 50
First Extrasolar Object Observed Racing Through Our Solar System 133
Scientists Find a Better Way To Wash Pesticides Off Your Apples 138
Monsanto Attacks Scientists After Studies Show Trouble For Weedkiller Dicamba 60
Many Junior Scientists Need To Take a Hard Look at Their Job Prospects 152
New Science Suggests the Ocean Could Rise More -- and Faster -- Than We Thought 204
CERN Scientists Conclude that the Universe Should Not Exist 456
The Geometry of Islamic Art Becomes a Treasure of a Game 213
New York State Bans E-Cigarettes Everywhere Traditional Cigarettes Are Prohibited 541
Anti-Aging Stem Cell Treatment Proves Successful In Early Human Trials 84
Astronaut Paul Weitz Dies At 85; Veteran of Skylab and Shuttle Missions 15
Bird Feeders Might Be Changing Bird Beaks 116
Star Trek: Discovery Is Returning For a Second Season 478
High-Nicotine E-Cigarettes May Make Teens Vape More, Study Warns 173
Stephen Hawking's Thesis Crashes Cambridge Site After It's Posted Online 79
Chinese Scientists Create Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs 181
The Oceanic Pole of Inaccessibility: Where Spacecraft Go To Die 100
Data Science Meets Sports Gambling: How Researchers Beat the Bookies 78
Blue Origin Successfully Test Fires Game-Changing BE-4 Rocket Engine 95
Doctors To Breathalyse Smokers Before Allowing Them NHS Surgery 486
Discovery of 50km Cave Raises Hopes For Human Colonisation of Moon 140
Turning the Optical Fiber Network Into a Giant Earthquake Sensor 15
Flying Insects Have Been Disappearing Over the Past Few Decades, Study Shows 178
Intelligent People More At Risk of Mental Illness, Study Finds 276
Over 30,000 Published Studies Could Be Wrong Due To Contaminated Cells 106
Peer Pressure Forced Whales and Dolphins To Evolve Big Brains Like Humans, Says Study 99
Google Maps Now Lets You Explore Your Local Planets and Moons 53
Essential Is Getting Sued For Allegedly Stealing Wireless Connector Technology 43
Ophelia Became a Major Hurricane Where No Storm Had Before 180
Leave It To the Heat to Dull Autumn's Glory 140
Astronomers Strike Gravitational Gold In Colliding Neutron Stars 109
China's Scientists Set New International Record -- For Faked Peer Reviews 75
Elon Musk Teases Reddit With Bad Answers About BFR Rocket 100
Scientists Selectively Trigger Suicide In Cancer Cells 47
8.5-Ton Chinese Space Station Will Crash To Earth In a Few Months 104
Microwave Tech Could Produce 40TB Hard Drives In the Near Future 151
Magic Mushrooms 'Reboot' Brain In Depressed People, Study Suggests 133
Recordings of the Sounds Heard In the Cuban US Embassy Attacks Released 300
Researcher Turns HDD Into Rudimentary Microphone 65
World's First 'Negative Emissions' Plant Has Begun Operation 218
Octopuses Show Scientists How To Hide Machines in Plain Sight 63
FDA Advisers Endorse Gene Therapy To Treat Form of Blindness 15
'Maybe Wikipedia Readers Shouldn't Need Science Degrees To Digest Articles About Basic Topics' 304
Evidence Suggests Updated Timeline Towards Yellowstone's Supervolcano Eruption 320
Scientists Discover Ring Around Dwarf Planet Haumea Beyond Neptune 49
SpaceX Successfully Landed the 12th Falcon 9 Rocket of 2017 118
A Giant, Mysterious Hole Has Opened Up In Antarctica 270
'Sooty Birds' Reveal Hidden US Air Pollution 80
'Staying Longer At Home' Was Key To Stone Age Technology Change 60,000 Years Ago 74
Tokyo Preparing For Floods 'Beyond Anything We've Seen' 98
Half the Universe's Missing Matter Has Just Been Finally Found 247
SpaceX's Mars Vision Puts Pressure on NASA's Manned Exploration Programs 142
Mondays Are the Worst, Data Science Proves 103
Carbon-Emitting Soil Could Speed Global Warming, Warns 26-Year Study 203
Astronaut Scott Kelly Describes One Year In Space -- And Its After Effects 200
Microsoft Develops New Programming Language For Quantum Computers 120
Publishers Take ResearchGate To Court, Seek Removal of Millions of Papers 66

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