Science Stories for 2019

Chinese Scientist Who Edited Babies' Genes Sentenced To Prison 186
NASA Showcases Its New Mars Rover, Calls It Precursor to Humans on Mars 71
Microsoft Wants Schoolchildren Playing Minecraft To Learn Math 39
What Exactly Happened During Boeing's Starliner Mission to the ISS? 80
Russia Claims New Missile is 27 Times Faster Than Sound 189
Google/NASA/Maxar Images Reveal This Decade's Engineering Accomplishments As Seen From Space 18
US Tests Ways To Sweep Space Clean of Radiation After Nuclear Attack 78
China's Long March 5 Rocket Returns To Flight 20
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 21
Trump Could Mandate Free Access To Federally Funded Research Papers 194
The Story of the World's Loneliest Tree 24
First Active Fault Zone Found on Mars 27
Information Teleported Between Two Computer Chips For the First Time 185
Scientists Attempt To Recreate 'Overview Effect' From Earth 70
How Cruise Ships Bring 1,200 Tons of Toxic Fumes To Brooklyn a Year 71
'Ring of Fire' Eclipse Enthrals Skywatchers in Middle East, Asia 10
The US Government Has Approved Funds for Geoengineering Research 150
MIT Reveals First Ever Laser Ultrasound Pictures of a Human Body 15
Bushfires Release Over Half Australia's Annual Carbon Emissions 70
Scientists Store Data in Synthetic DNA Embedded in a Plastic Bunny 11
Why Your Brain Needs Exercise 47
Proposed CO2 Capture System Could Reduce Truck Emissions By 90 Percent 83
The Human Brain Evolved When Carbon Dioxide Was Lower 137
Bringing Rocks Back From Mars 65
Ethiopia Has Launched its First Satellite Into Space 46
Could Spacecraft Catch the Solar Winds With 'Electric Sails'? 62
Researcher Uses Focused Gallium Ions To Build A Microscopic Gingerbread House 17
40% of Anti-Vaccine Group's Funding Came From Wealthy 'Alternative Health' Vendor 110
Retired US General Claims Revolutionary Transport Technology, Warns China Could Dominate Space 161
Earth's Magnetic North Pole Changes Time Zones, Just Keeps Drifting 108
President Trump Officially Adds a New Branch to the U.S. Military: Space Force 249
FDA Approves First-Ever Ebola Vaccine 34
Vaping-Related Lung Injuries Declining, As CDC Confirms Vitamin E Acetate As Main Culprit 107
New Boson Appears In Nuclear Decay, Breaks Standard Model 71
The Big Business of Being a Space Janitor 49
Boeing Capsule Goes Off Course, Won't Dock at Space Station 158
The BBC's 1992 TV Show About VR, 3D TVs With Glasses, and Holographic 3D Screens 54
Enormous Methane Leak From Ohio Gas Well Was One of Worst In American History, Satellites Reveal 72
What's it Like To Install a Weather Station at the Top of the World? 21
Worried About 5G's Health Effects? Don't Be 99
Depression and Suicide Linked To Air Pollution In New Global Study 64
Missing Stars Could Point To Alien Civilizations, Scientists Say 289
Playing With Weapons Was a 'Normal' Part of Prehistoric Childhood, Study Finds 83
Former NASA Engineer Thwarts Porch Pirates Again With 'Glitter Bomb 2.0' 94
DNA From 'Chewing Gum' Provides Clues To Life 5,700 Years Ago 34
Facebook Has a Neural Network That Can Do Advanced Math 36
Europe's Cheops Telescope Will Profile Distant Planets 37
The Struggle To Name Lab-Grown Meat 258
New Jersey's Largest Hospital System Pays Up In Ransomware Attack 34
Wildfires Have Changed. It's Time the Science Did Too. 19
America's Air Force Seeks Commercial Technologies For 'Space Domain Awareness' 27
America Considers Declassifying Military Information on US, Chinese, and Russian Space Programs 55
Physicists Use Bubbling Quantum Vacuum To Hopscotch Heat Across Empty Space 23
Astronomers Find 19 More Galaxies Missing Their Dark Matter 90
Tony Brooker, Pioneer of Computer Programming, Dies At 94 26
A Space Probe Has Mapped the Winds Above Mars for the First Time 5
Mathematician Proves Huge Result on 'Dangerous' Problem 167
Cigna Uses AI To Check If Patients Are Taking Their Medications 32
New Zealand Orders 1,300 Square Feet of Skin From US To Help Burned Volcano Victims 65
Crows Could Be the Smartest Animal Other Than Primates 130
Rude Paper Reviews Are Pervasive and Sometimes Harmful, Study Finds 135
Larry Page Is Quietly Funding Efforts To Develop a Universal Flu Vaccine 57
'Monster' Black Hole Announced Last Week Is Nothing Special 39
Low-Risk Ultrasound Procedure Destroys 80 Percent of Prostate Cancers In One-Year Study 78
Chronic Pain is an Impossible Problem 180
Gamma-Ray Laser Moves a Step Closer To Reality 85
Greenland's Ice Sheet Melting Seven Times Faster Than In 1990s 282
Researchers Report Breakthrough In 'Distributed Deep Learning' 16
Scientists Find a Weak Spot In Some Superbugs' Defenses 27
NHS Gives Amazon Free Use of Health Data Under Alexa Advice Deal 25
Scientists Dodge FDA To Offer a $1 Million Anti-Aging Treatment in Colombia 145
When a DNA Test Says You're a Younger Man, Who Lives 5,000 Miles Away 76
Eat For 10 Hours. Fast For 14. This Daily Habit Prompts Weight Loss, Study Finds 226
Oceans Losing Oxygen at Unprecedented Rate, Experts Warn 201
Ohio Neighborhood Temporarily Evacuated Over Misplaced Fears of a Homemade Nuclear Reactor 188
Astronomers Find the Biggest Black Hole Ever Measured 110
Tesla Wants To Clean Windshields With Laser Beams 98
Researchers Call Chronic Inflammation 'A Substantial Public Health Crisis' 91
Hospitals' New Issue: A 'Glut' of Machines Making Alarm Sounds 77
Scientists Propose Using Mountains To Build a New Type of Battery For Long-Term Energy Storage 200
Recordings Reveal That Plants Make Ultrasonic Squeals When Stressed 59
Early Humans Domesticated Themselves, New Genetic Evidence Suggests 133
Anti-Vaxxer Arrested As Samoa Executes Mass-Vaccination Campaign To Stop Measles Outbreak 226
European Plan To Tackle Space Debris? Hug it Out 22
Fractured Forests Are Endangering Wildlife, Scientists Find 38
Scientists Fed an Ancient Earth Organism Space Metals. It Started 'Dancing' 43
142,000 People, Mostly Children, Died From Measles In 2018 168
SpaceX Sends Dragon Soaring To the ISS 31
Scientists' Brains Shrank a Bit After an Extended Stay in Antarctica 49
World's Most-Isolated City Lures NASA Talent in Hunt for Resources Tech 17
Even 50-Year-Old Climate Models Correctly Predicted Global Warming 407
Rivers Could Generate 2,000 Nuclear Power Plants Worth of Energy With 'Blue' Membrane 129
China Gene-Edited Baby Experiment 'May Have Created Unintended Mutations' 77
NASA Spacecraft Unraveling Sun's Mysteries as it Spirals Closer To Our Star 30
Climate Change is Forcing One Person From Their Home Every Two Seconds, Oxfam Says 184
India's Crashed Vikram Moon Lander Spotted On Lunar Surface 60
Cracks in the Greenland Ice Sheet Are Producing Massive Waterfalls, Raising Scientists' Concerns For Sea Level Rise 176
Doctors Are Turning To YouTube To Learn How To Do Surgical Procedures 59
Reptiles Known as 'Living Rocks' Show Surprising Cognitive Powers 23
Archivists Are Trying To Make Sure a 'Pirate Bay of Science' Never Goes Down 57
Amazon Lets Doctors Record Your Conversations and Put Them in Your Medical Files 66
Physicists Have Identified a Metal That Conducts Electricity But Not Heat 83
Can We Save Coral Reefs Using Underwater Loudspeakers? 26
What Happened After The Explosion at a Virology Campus in Siberia? 34
Astronomers Have Now Photographed A Second Interstellar Comet 22
Did Protocells Serve As Software 'Code' In Early Evolutionary Biology? 163
Genetically-Engineered Microbe No Longer Needs to Eat Food To Grow 78
Wild Silkworms Produce Proteins Primed for Bioprinting 9
Study Reveals Music's Universal Patterns Across Societies Worldwide 45
With Suction Cups and Lots of Luck, Scientists Measure Blue Whale's Heart Rate 19
Scientists Turn Undersea Fiber Optic Cables Into Seismographs 12
Mystery Sounds From Storms Could Help Predict Tornadoes 34
Mathematicians Catch a Pattern By Figuring Out How To Avoid It 26
Monster Black Hole That 'Should Not Exist' Discovered in the Milky Way 49
Toshiba Claims Its Device Tests For 13 Cancer Types With 99% Accuracy From a Single Drop of Blood 56
The World May Already Have Crossed a Series of Climate Tipping Points 341
Greenhouse Gas Emissions Are Still Rising, UN Report Says 263
2 Months After Failed Moon Landing, India Acknowledges Its Craft Crashed 42
Solid State Battery Breakthrough Could Double the Density of Lithium-ion Cells 107
Back To the Future: the Original Time Crystal Makes a Comeback 40
Health Concerns Mount As More Old Sewer Pipes Are Lined With Plastic 95
Psilocybin For Major Depression Granted Breakthrough Therapy By FDA 89
There Still Aren't Any Rules Preventing Rogue Scientists From Making Gene-Edited Babies 118
How Texas Instruments Monopolized Math Class 220
Why 536 Was 'the Worst Year To Be Alive' 146
Jeff Bezos' Plan to Save Earth? 'Move All Heavy Industry into Space' 210
Introducing Mosquitos Infected with Bacterium Reduced Dengue Fever Cases By 75% 28
An Alarming Discovery In an Astronaut's Bloodstream 90
Hungarian Scientists May Have Found a Fifth Force of Nature 86
A Blind Man Sees His Birthday Candles Again, Thanks To a Bionic Eye and a Brain Implant 13
Does SpaceX's Starlink Project Pose an Existential Threat to Astronomy? 132
Physicists Have Finally Seen Traces of the Long-Sought 'Axion' Particle 40
Astronomers Detect Water Vapor Around Jupiter's Moon Europa 30
One-Third of Tropical African Plant Species at Risk of Extinction 43
Oxford Dictionaries Declares 'Climate Emergency' the Word of 2019 118
Bold Space Mission To Bring Back Rocks From Mars Takes Shape 48
Finland Has an App Showing Shopping's True Carbon Footprint 57
Scientists Can Now Identify Someone From a Single Strand of Hair 76
Vertebrates Became Predators By Tweaking the Neural Crest 15
A Mysterious Burst of Energy In Space Has Smashed Records 82
Ayahuasca Alters Brain Waves To Produce Waking Dream-Like State, Study Finds 115
SpaceX's Prototype Starship Rocket Partially Bursts During Testing In Texas 76
Humans Placed in Suspended Animation For the First Time 166
Ask Slashdot: What Happened To Holographic Data Storage? 86
The Flat-Earth Conspiracy Continues To Spread Around the Globe 388
Why Office Noise Bothers Some People More Than Others 97
MIT Teaches Autonomous Cars How To Deal With Selfish Drivers 117
China Now Launches More Rockets Than Anyone In the World 65
Woman Who Inherited Huntington's Disease Sues Doctors 142
Juul Sued by California for Marketing E-Cigarettes To Teens 68
A Black Hole Threw a Star Out of the Milky Way Galaxy 116
'Sci-fi Makes You Stupid' Study Refuted by Scientists Behind Original Research 107
Germany Makes Measles Vaccinations Compulsory For Children 130
Declaring State of Emergency, Samoa Makes Measles Vaccinations Compulsory 89
The Next Graphene? Shiny and Magnetic, a New Form of Pure Carbon Dazzles 36
This Company Is Using Mushrooms To Reduce Plastic Waste 29
Researcher Finally Explains Why Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has 'Tiger Stripes' 6
Quantum Computer Made From Photons Achieves New Record 23
Something Strange Seems To Be Causing Distant Galaxies To Synchronize 191
Pointless Work Meetings 'Really a Form of Therapy' 109
US Workers Show Little Improvement In 21st Century Skills 88
Fuel Cell Drone Makes An Epic Ocean Crossing 31
White House Unveils Rules Requiring Online Disclosure of Hospital Prices 119
Physicists Irreversibly Split Photons By Freezing Them In a Bose-Einstein Condensate 50
The Black Death Plague Just Reappeared In China 115
SpaceX Successfully Tests Crewed Dragon Launch Abort Engines 31
China Completes Crucial Landing Test For First Mars Mission in 2020 55
Hologram-Like Device Animates Objects Using Ultrasound Waves 53
Health Websites Are Sharing Sensitive Medical Data with Google, Facebook, and Amazon 22
The Curiosity Rover Detects Oxygen Behaving Strangely on Mars 56
Physics Experiment With Ultrafast Laser Pulses Produces a Previously Unseen Phase of Matter 42
UCLA Now Has the First Zero-Emission, All-Electric Mobile Surgical Instrument Lab 26
Study Reveals How Two Strains of One Bacterium Combine To Cause Flesh-Eating Infection 17
EPA To Limit Science Used To Write Public Health Rules 273
SpaceX Launches Another 60 Starlink Satellites, Sets Two Rocket Reuse Records 73
Surgeons Transplanted Pig Skin Onto Humans for the First Time 62
How Some Fast Rood Restaurant Chains Are Confronting the Threat of Antibiotic Resistance 69
Company Seeks FDA Approval For Single-Dose Drug To Cure HIV/AIDS 92
Did Life Originate From 'Protocells' By Hydrothermal Vents? 86
AI Cracks Centuries-Old 'Three Body Problem' In Under a Second 146
Acetaminophen In Pregnancy May Be Linked To Higher Risk of ADHD, Autism 57
'Is Eating Red Meat OK, After All? Probably Not' 185
What Shape Is the Universe? A New Study Suggests We've Got It All Wrong 93
The World's First Gattaca Baby Tests Are Finally Here 166
Vaping Illnesses Linked To Vitamin E Acetate, CDC Says 51
House Plants Have Little Effect on Indoor Air Quality, Study Concludes 44
NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found 'Super Emitters' 63
Ambrosia, the Young Blood Transfusion Startup, Is Quietly Back in Business 83
Ransomware, Data Breaches At Hospitals Tied To Uptick In Fatal Heart Attacks 35
The Cost For Each SLS Launch Is Over $2 Billion 99
Sea Levels Will Rise For Centuries Even If Greenhouse Gas Emissions Goals Are Met 280
First New HIV Strain In 19 Years Identified 70
A Bipartisan Group of Senators Wants To Extend the Space Station To 2030 56
Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets For China 58
Earth Just Experienced Its Hottest-Ever October 275
Screen Time Might Be Physically Changing Kids' Brains 56
'Alarming' Loss of Insects and Spiders Recorded 167
SpaceX Goes For Two Big Reuse Milestones With Next Launch 22
More Than 11,000 Scientists From Around the World Declare a 'Climate Emergency' 395
Alcohol Breath Tests, a Linchpin of the Criminal Justice System, Are Often Unreliable 136
Interstellar Space Even Weirder Than Expected, NASA Probe Reveals 152
With a Laser, Researchers Say They Can Hack Alexa, Google Home or Siri 65
NASA Livestreams a Test of Boeing's 'Starliner' Spacecraft 30
Second 'Oumuamua-Like Comet From Beyond Our Solar System Suggests 'Alien' Comets May Be Common 24
Neonicotinoids Disrupt Aquatic Food Webs and Decrease Fishery Yields, Says Study 22
Iceland Livestreams 10-Year-Old McDonald's Cheeseburger That Won't Decompose 200
Scientists Find a Way To Target the Protein Behind Huntington's Disease 22
13-Year-Old Scientist Designs Alternative To Hyperloop 138
Black Salve Is A Dangerous Fake Cancer Cure, But It Continues To Flourish In Facebook Groups 163
Astronomers Catch Wind Rushing Out of Galaxy 31
Deep Sleep May Help the Brain Clear Alzheimer's Toxins 57
Asthma Carbon Footprint 'As Big As Eating Meat' 221
NHS Pagers Are Leaking Medical Data 29
Tracking Satellites Through Crowdsourcing 30
Juul Shipped At Least A Million Contaminated Pods, New Lawsuit Says 159
Sea-Level Rise Could Flood Hundreds of Millions More Than Expected 214
Lab Cultured 'Steaks' Grown On An Artificial Gelatin Scaffold 117
Origin of Modern Humans 'Traced To Botswana' 67
Physicists Simulate Critical 'Reheating' Period That Kickstarted the Big Bang 69
Hospital Algorithms Are Biased Against Black Patients, New Research Shows 79
After Two Years The Air Force's X-37B Space Plane Finally Lands 39
Samsung Satellite Crashes Into Family's Backyard 63
Could We Grow Crops On The Moon -- And on Mars? 75
Calculation Errors and Inadequate Peer Review Led To Miami Bridge's Collapse 73
Migrating Russian Eagles Run Up Huge Data Roaming Charges 37
Why Ants Are Practically Immune To Traffic Jams 57
Man Kept Getting Drunk Without Drinking. Docs Found Brewer's Yeast In His Guts 72
Glacial Rivers Absorb Carbon Faster Than Rainforests, Scientists Find 16
NASA Plans To Send Water-Hunting Robot To Moon Surface in 2022 18
Organic Farming is Actually Worse For Climate Change 280
Google Researchers Taught An AI To Recognize Smells 18
How Flagstaff, Arizona, Switched To LEDs Without Giving Astronomers a Headache 88
Researchers Train Rats To Drive Tiny Cars 81
Researchers Find Racial Bias In Hospital Algorithm 114
The Universe Is Made of Tiny Bubbles Containing Mini-Universes, Scientists Say 104
You Got a Brain Scan at the Hospital. Someday a Computer May Use It To Identify You. 19
Some of the Universe's Heavier Elements Are Created By Neutron Star Collisions 53
Forecast Suggests Rainforest Could Stop Producing Enough Rain To Sustain Itself By 2021 164
AI Allows Paralyzed Person To 'Handwrite' With His Mind 9
Tom DeLonge's UFO Research Group Signs Contract With US Army To Develop Far-Future Tech 77
Air Pollution 'Triggers Hundreds More Heart Attacks and Strokes,' Study Finds 58
Ocean Acidification Can Cause Mass Extinctions, Fossils Reveal 90
New Gene Editing Tool Could Fix Most Harmful DNA Mutations 30
Traffic Lights Worldwide Set To Change 161
Venezuela's Water System is Collapsing 229
Mathematician Solves 48-Year-Old Problem, Finds New Way To Multiply 107
Unnatural Selection: the Eye-Opening Netflix Docuseries On Gene Editing 27
US Astronauts Embark on the First All-Female Spacewalk 141
Facing Unbearable Heat, Qatar Has Begun To Air-Condition the Outdoors 183
Most U.S. Dairy Cows Are Descended From Just 2 Bulls. That's Not Good 85

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