Science Stories for 2019

Physicists Propose Listening For Dark Matter With Plasma-Based 'Axion Radio' 29
Rocket Lab Launches Highest Mission Yet To Put Astro Digital Satellite In Orbit 27
Mars InSight's 'Mole' Is Moving Again 35
Earth-Like Planets May Be Common Outside Our Solar System, Scientists Discover 52
Machine Learning Can't Flag False News, New Studies Show 42
Paris Zoo Unveils the 'Blob,' An Organism With No Brain But 720 Sexes 156
Magic Mushrooms Can Help Smokers Kick the Habit 80
SpaceX Says 12,000 Satellites Isn't Enough, So It Might Launch Another 30,000 142
Hubble Observes First Confirmed Interstellar Comet 50
California's New Law Bans Schools From Starting Before 8am 203
Testosterone Significantly Boosts Women's Athletic Performance, Study Shows 280
In New Headache, WeWork Says It Found Cancer-Causing Chemical in Its Phone Booths 72
NASA Engineer's 'Helical Engine' May Violate Laws of Physics 150
Mini Gravitational-Wave Detector Could Probe Dark Matter 34
A Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In More Than 100 Published Studies 20
NASA Consultant 'Convinced We Found Evidence of Life on Mars in the 1970s' 69
Study: Many Popular Medical Apps Send User Info To 3rd Or 4th Parties 18
Should High School Computer Science Classes Count as a Math Credit? 222
Python Code Glitch May Have Caused Errors In Over 100 Published Studies 121
Twisted Elastic Fibers Could Cool Your Food, Study Finds 24
The First All-Female Spacewalk Is Scheduled For This Month 108
Fired EPA Scientists To Release Air Pollution Report They Say Agency Unqualified To Issue 128
US Navy Files Patent For Compact Fusion Reactor 172
A Look at Earth Archive, a Project To Produce Detailed Maps of All the Land on Earth Through Laser Scanning 14
Alexei Leonov, the First Human To Walk In Space, Has Died At Age 85 22
NASA Aims For First Manned SpaceX Mission in First-Quarter 2020 31
Lab-Grown Meat Could Be On Store Shelves By 2022 127
Changing Your Diet Can Help Tamp Down Depression and Boost Mood, Study Finds 56
Some Corals Grow After 'Fatal' Warming 112
The Most Detailed Map of Auto Emissions In America 153
Da Vinci Bridge Design Holds Up Even After 500 Years, MIT Proves 79
Quantum Computing May Be Closer Than Expected With 'Game Changer' Discovery 58
Researchers Created Lenses a Thousand Times Thinner To Hopefully Eliminate Ugly Smartphone Camera Bumps 132
Today's Politics May Be Bad for Your Health 203
A Growing Number of Astrophysicists Are Leaving Academia To Work For Tech Startups 75
Lithium-Ion Batteries Win Nobel Prize for Chemistry 28
Saturn Overtakes Jupiter As Host To Most Moons In Solar System 34
Cows Painted Like Zebras Attract Fewer Flies 118
Nobel Prize in Physics: 2019 Winners Made Significant Cosmological Discoveries 31
Nobel Prize in Medicine Goes To 3 Scientists For Discovering How Cells Use Oxygen 10
China Is Breeding Giant Pigs the Size of Polar Bears 119
First Meat Grown In Space Lab 248 Miles From Earth 29
Hospitals That Are Turning Away Patients Reportedly Pay Ransomware Attackers 100
Can Vegetarianism Stop Climate Change? 269
Is It Possible To Build a Warp Drive? 166
Aliens May Have Bugged Co-Orbital Space Rocks To Spy On Earth, Scientist Says 135
Researchers Repurpose Failed Cancer Drug Into Printable Semiconductor 9
NASA Will Soon Start Testing Its First All-Electric X-Plane 21
Montreal Law Firm Looks To Launch Class-Action Lawsuit Against Fortnite Developer 90
In the Pancreas, Common Fungi May Drive Cancer 17
Paralysed Man Moves in Mind-Reading Exoskeleton 30
Intel Wants To Use AI To Reconnect Damaged Spinal Nerves 31
Organic Compounds Found In Plumes of Saturn's Icy Moon Enceladus 34
NASA Mic'd Up Mars and Uploaded It To Soundcloud 23
Ditching Platinum For the Ocean Could Make Hydrogen Cheap 195
315 Billion-Ton Iceberg Breaks Off Antarctica 88
New Theory On Mysterious Oumuamua Space Object Revealed 54
Government Plans To Collect DNA From Detained Immigrants 232
Lung Damage From Vaping Resembles Chemical Burns, Report Says 146
Ocean Plastic Waste Probably Comes From Ships, Report Says 97
Eat Less Red Meat, Scientists Said. Now Some Believe That Was Bad Advice. 315
Human Babies In the Womb Have Lizard-Like Hand Muscles 74
Startup That Aims To 3D-Print Rockets Says It's Fully Funded For Its First Commercial Missions 73
Putin Could Decide For the World On CRISPR Babies 148
NASA Launches a New Earth-like Planet Hunting Telescope Using a Giant Balloon 17
Ransomware Forces 3 Hospitals To Turn Away All But the Most Critical Patients 89
New Studies Warn of Cataclysmic Solar Superstorms 102
Is 'Amazon Care' a True Benefit Or Industrial Era-Style Healthcare? 155
Woman Who Sleeps In $500 EMF-Blocking Sack Wants Area-Wide Wi-Fi Limits 301
China Grew Two Cotton Leaves on the Moon 43
SpaceX Has Starry-Eyed Ambitions for Its Starship 108
Giant Planet Around Tiny Star 'Should Not Exist' 82
CRISPR Might Be the Banana's Only Hope Against a Deadly Fungus 89
Elon Musk Is Webcasting a Live Update About 'Starship' 156
NASA Partners With General Electric To Advance The Future Of Electric Flight 79
NASA Wants To Send Nuclear Rockets To the Moon and Mars 111
Scientists Prepare To Drill For Million-Year-Old Ice In Antarctica 64
Transferring Vaginal Fluids Could 'Revolutionize' Women's Health, Researchers Say 83
AI Equal With Human Experts in Medical Diagnosis, Study Finds 37
Number Theorist Fears All Published Math Is Wrong 123
Gigantic Chinese Telescope Opens To Astronomers Worldwide 28
Earth's Oceans Are Getting Hotter and Higher, And It's Accelerating, UN Report Warns 331
Plastic Tea Bags Shed Millions of Microplastic Particles Into the Cup, Study Finds 140
Why Is Earth So Biologically Diverse? Mountains Hold the Answer 42
What 'Ad Astra' and Brad Pitt Get Wrong About Space Travel, Science and Life In the Cosmos 89
Brain Research On Boys' Preference For Video Games and Girls' For Social Media 161
Climate Change Causes and Impacts Are Increasing, UN Report Says 355
Ask Slashdot: Could Climate Change Be Solved By Manipulating Photons in Space? 382
Apple Watch May Have Saved A Biker's Life 63
Did a Prehistoric Asteroid Breakup Shower Earth With Enough Dust To Change the Climate? 24
Was Cuba's Mysterious Sonic Weapon Just Mosquito Gas? 60
SpaceX Tries Buying Out Homeowners Around Starhopper's Texas Launchpad 132
Could A Scalp-Zapping Cap Help Reverse Male Balding? 30
Makers of Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Respond To Criticism of Healthfulness 129
Mysterious Magnetic Pulses Discovered On Mars 54
AI Takes On Earthquake Prediction 13
Why Prescription Drugs Cost So Much More in America 348
Experts Warn World 'Grossly Unprepared' For Future Pandemics 148
Japan's Hayabusa 2 Targets Final Asteroid Landing 11
Vaping Criminal Probe Announced By FDA As Illnesses Rise To 530 100
North America Has Lost 3 Billion Birds in 50 Years 96
Research Finds Black Carbon Breathed By Mothers Can Cross Into Unborn Children 107
C-Section Babies Have More Potentially Infectious Gut Bacteria 28
India Bans E-cigarettes as Global Vaping Backlash Grows 105
A Lunar Space Elevator Is Actually Feasible and Inexpensive, Scientists Find 161
AI Learned To Use Tools After Nearly 500 Million Games of Hide and Seek 71
Massive, Blimplike Experiment Lowers Weight Limit On Neutrino 59
Earth Warming More Quickly Than Thought, New Climate Models Show 471
Millions of Americans' Medical Images and Data Are Available On the Internet 22
Comet Visitor From Outside Our Solar System Will Wow Scientists For Months 34
Richard Stallman Resigns From MIT 725
MIT Unveils New 'Blackest Black' Material and Makes a Diamond Disappear 52
The World Has a Third Pole -- and It's Melting Quickly 146
There's a Lost Continent 1,000 Miles Under Europe 30
Tonight's Asteroid Will Pass So Close To Earth, Home Telescopes Can See It 43
Europe's Space Industry Is Working On Reusable Rockets With Environmentally-Friendly Fuel 72
Are Plant-Based Meat Alternatives Really Healthier Than Meat? 211
Transgenic Mosquitoes Transferred Their Genes Into a Natural Population 79
Study Finds the Universe Might Be 2 Billion Years Younger 132
CRISPR Gene-Editing May Offer Path To Cure For HIV, First Published Report Shows 32
A $30 Device Turns the Cold of Outer Space Into Renewable Energy 62
Climate Change is Real and Things Will Get Worse -- But Because We Understand the Driver of Potential Doom, It's a Choice, Not a Foregone Conclusion 268
Water Found On a Potentially Life-Friendly Alien Planet 71
Astronomers Have Spotted An Interstellar Comet Flying Toward Earth 49
No Bones About It: People Recognize Objects By Visualizing Their 'Skeletons' 49
Two Mathematicians Solve Old Math Riddle, Possibly the Meaning of Life 93
Objects Can Now Change Colors Like a Chameleon 21
Trump Calls On FDA To Ban All Flavored Vapes After Mystery Lung Illness 197
Apple's iPhone 11 Pro Is Triggering 'Fear of Holes' Or Trypophobia In Some 158
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked 166
SpaceX Confirms It's Almost Ready To Test Its Orbital Starship 89
Diesel Cars Emit More Air Pollution On Hot Days, Study Finds 107
Scientists Discover New Evidence of the Asteroid That Killed Off the Dinosaurs 54
New Models Suggest Titan Lakes Are Explosion Craters 19
Artificial Leaf Produces First Drugs Using Sunlight 34
New Prosthetic Legs Let Amputees Feel Their Foot and Knee In Real-Time 15
Juul Violated Federal Rules by Marketing Vaping Products as Safer Than Cigarettes, FDA Says 95
Biohackers Use a Raspberry Pi to Implant a Networked Hard Drive 118
Short Film 'The Comet' Uses Real Images From ESA's Rosetta Space Probe 6
Chandrayaan-2's Orbiter Is Still Going Strong 31
First Long-Distance Heart Surgery Performed Via Robot 25
Squirrels Listen To Birds' Conversations As Signal of Safety 45
Cases of Vaping-Related Lung Illness Surge, Health Officials Say 115
India Loses Communication With Lunar Lander Shortly Before Scheduled Landing On the Moon 95
Watch India's Chandrayaan-2 Make Its Historic Moon Landing Attempt 56
Drinking More Than 2 Sodas Per Day Can Increase Your Risk of Dying, Study Finds 118
Silicon Valley Heavyweights Fire Up Plan For an Open Lunar Settlement 197
Chinese Scientists Regrow Tooth Enamel In 48 Hours With Phosphate Gel 46
One Number Shows Something Is Fundamentally Wrong With Our Conception of the Universe 260
22 Million Pounds of Plastics Enter the Great Lakes Each Year 98
Crystalline Nets Harvest Water From Desert Air, Turn CO2 Into Liquid Fuel 151
Lab-Testing Startup uBiome Files For Bankruptcy 5
Human Speech May Have a Universal Transmission Rate: 39 Bits Per Second 102
Study Shows Some Political Beliefs Are Just Historical Accidents 237
Michigan Set To Become First State To Ban Flavored E-cigarettes 100
SpaceX Satellite Was On 'Collision Course' Until ESA Satellite Was Re-Routed 65
Soft Drinks, Including Sugar-Free, Linked To Increased Risk of Early Death 229
A Fingerprint of Earth From Space 14
Optimism Increases Lifespan By 11-15%, New Study Finds 76
On the Far Side of the Moon, China's Rover Discovers a Strangely-Colored Gel-Like Substance 67
Physicists Release Step-by-Step Instructions For Building a Wormhole 73
US Air Force's Mysterious X-37B Space Plane Sets New Record For Time In Space 50
Study Shows Some Exoplanets May Have Greater Variety of Life Than Exists On Earth 125
Scientists Excited By Discovery of an Impossibly Large Black Hole 41
Intermittent Fasting May Be As Beneficial As Counting Calories 71
The Internet Is Coming To the Rest of the Animal Kingdom 42
Some of the World's Most-Cited Scientists Have a Secret That's Just Been Exposed 88
Plasma Thrusters For Small Satellite Systems Hit Hyper Drive 17
Mutant Sheep Are Being Bred In Lab To Fight Lethal Child Brain Disease 16
CRISPR Now Cuts and Splices Whole Chromosomes 18
Much Fridge Food 'Goes There To Die' 157
Engineers Develop Bone-Like Metal Foam That Can Be 'Healed' At Room Temperature 23
Trump Launches Space Command 190
Is It Time to Upend the Periodic Table? 90
16-Bit RISC-V Processor Made With Carbon Nanotubes 50
Whole Foods CEO Says Eating Plant-Based 'Meats' is Unhealthy 233
North Carolina Sues 8 E-Cigarette Companies For Allegedly Marketing To Kids 81
SpaceX Launches Starship 'Hopper' On Dramatic Test Flight 126
Chemists Discover Water Microdroplets Spontaneously Produce Hydrogen Peroxide 36
Study Suggests Link Between Air Pollution and Psychiatric Disorders 87
A Growing Community Called Randonauts Believe That Journeying To Random Locations Can Help Put Us in New Realities 134
Purdue Pharma Offers $10-12B To Settle Opioid Claims 68
Mutant Sheep Are Being Bred in Lab To Fight Lethal Child Brain Disease 53
KFC is Testing Beyond Meat 'Chicken' in an Atlanta Restaurant 160
Sheriff Warns Angry Locals To Vacate Houses Before SpaceX's 'Starhopper' Test 121
Musk and Bezos' Satellite Internet Could Save Consumers Billions of Dollars 96
New Technique Can Bioprint Living Tissue In Seconds 19
US Govt Considers Changing Requirements for Rocket Launches. Commercial Space Group Objects 14
First Alleged Crime In Space? 70
India's Chandrayaan-2 Spacecraft Enters the Moon's Orbit 14
Quantum Radar Has Been Demonstrated For the First Time 37
Complex Quantum Teleportation Achieved For the First Time 17
Seattle Has Figured Out How To End the War On Drugs 316
Graphics That Seem Clear Can Easily Be Misread 54
Vaping Is Suspected In Severe Lung Illnesses 166
Maglev Heart Could Keep Cardiac Patients Alive 49
Researchers Are Creepily Close To Predicting When You're Going To Die 77
How Flat Earthers Nearly Derailed a Space Photo Book 167
Pig To Human Heart Transplants 'Possible Within Three Years' 83
NASA Mission To Jupiter Moon Europa Moves Step Closer To Launch 26
A Diet Based on Caloric Restriction Might Make You Live Longer. It'll Certainly Feel Like Longer. 168
How SpaceX Plans To Move Starship From Cocoa Site To Kennedy Space Center 42
Scientists Are 99 Percent Sure They Just Detected a Black Hole Eating a Neutron Star 41
Newt Gingrich Trying To Sell Trump on a Cheap Moon Plan 95
Researchers Find New State of Matter, Claim It Could Aid Quantum Computing and Data Storage 19
YouTube's Algorithms Blamed For Brazil's Dangerous Conspiracy Video-Sharing on WhatsApp 69
Elon Musk Begins Selling $25 'Nuke Mars' T-Shirts 101
A New Species of Leech Is Discovered Near Washington, D.C. 80
Researchers Build a Heat Shield Just 10 Atoms Thick To Protect Electronic Devices 20
NASA Made a Rare Flight Right Through a Thundercloud Formed by a Wildfire 8
Chemists Make First-Ever Ring of Pure Carbon 37
Counterintuitive Physics Property Found To Be Widespread In Living Organisms 58
Scientists Discover New Pain-Sensing Organ 15
Scientists Reverse Aging Process In Rat Brain Stem Cells 34
Scientists Have Created a Vaccine For Cat Allergies, But You Can't Have It Yet 64
Scientists Discover a Cure For the Deadliest Strain of Tuberculosis 26
The Arrogance of the Anthropocene 123
Microscopic Fibers Are Falling From the Sky In Rocky Mountains 128
Insect 'Apocalypse' in US Driven by 50x Increase in Toxic Pesticides 148
How One City Saved $5 Million by Routing School Buses with an Algorithm 85
The Banana Is One Step Closer To Disappearing 195
Nuclear Reactor For Mars Outpost Could Be Ready To Fly By 2022 114
Ebola Is Now Curable 66
Tesla Owner Implants RFID Chip From Her Model 3's Keycard Into Her Arm 135
Study Blames Rise In Teens Who Need Glasses On Excessive Screen Time 53
Many of the 'Oldest' People in the World May Not Be as Old as We Think 52
US Significantly Weakens Endangered Species Act 146
Does Quantum Cryptography Need a Reboot? 56
New Electric Motor Design Massively Boosts Power, Torque, and Efficiency 207
Middle-Aged Hearing Loss Doubles Risk of Dementia 61
MacGyvering Mars: How NASA's Curiosity Team Worked Around A Broken Drill 15
Researchers Can Accurately Measure Blood Pressure Using Just A Cellphone Video Of Your Face 37
The World's Smartest Chimp Has Died 70
Something Big Just Slammed Into Jupiter 63
Increasingly Frequent Marine Heatwaves Can Kill Coral Almost Instantly, Study Finds 37
Dark Matter May Predate the Big Bang, New Math Suggests 112
Mysterious, Ancient Radio Signals Keep Pelting Earth. Astronomers Designed an AI to Hunt Them Down. 51
Scientists Develop 'Artificial Tongue' To Detect Fake Whiskies 99
Tardigrades Are Now On the Moon Thanks To a Crashed Israeli Spacecraft 164
SpaceX Successfully Launches Twice-Flown Falcon 9, Catches Fairing At Sea 91
Physicists Overturn a 100-Year-Old Assumption On How Brain Cells Work 135
One Search To (Almost) Rule Them All: Hundreds of Hidden Planets Found in Kepler Data 39
Best Milky Way Map Yet Confirms Our Galaxy Is Warped and Twisted 82
Scientists Are Using the Cold of Outer Space To Rethink Air Conditioning 218
First Human-Monkey Chimera Raises Concern Among Scientists 175
Possible Link Found Between Body Weight and the Immune System 211
SpaceX Makes Plans For Up To 24 Starship Launches A Year From Florida 35
NASA Cut 385 Acres of Trees In Florida For a Better View of Launch Pads 108
DoubleTree Hotels Wants The ISS Astronauts To Bake Cookies 88
Scientists Top List of Most Trusted Professionals In US 232

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