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Scientists found traces of aluminum in the same place in donor brains as the toxic protein clumps that eventually cause Alzheimer's Disease.
Neuroscience and Brain

The Stuff Beer Cans Are Made From Is Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

By Dan Robitzski

New reports suggest that scientists should only pursue geoengineering experiments like blocking sunlight once they better understand possible side effects.
Climate Change

Scientists Warn That Blocking Out the Sun Could Have Unintended Consequences

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink recently showcased a macaque playing "Pong" with its mind. Researchers in the field are unimpressed.
Neuroscience and Brain

Famed Neurobiologist Slams Neuralink’s Monkey Demo

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just funded a project that wants to explore the clouds of Venus with a swarm of kite-like spacecraft that glide through the atmosphere.
Science & Energy

NASA Funds Spacecraft “Swarm” to Explore Venus

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell says the Starlink network could provite global connectivity after just five more satellite launches.
Science & Energy

SpaceX Says That in Just Five Launches, It’ll Have Full Global Connectivity

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a blood test for clinical depression that they say will make diagnoses and treatments far more specific.
Health & Medicine

New Test Detects Depression in Blood Samples

By Dan Robitzski

Matt Gaetz seems to have further incriminated himself in an ongoing sex trafficking scandal by leaving his Venmo on public.
Science & Energy

Congressman’s Sex Scandal Explodes Because He Left Venmo Transactions on Public

By Dan Robitzski

Experts say that ethical concerns over growing brain-like neural organoids or implanting human brain cells into animals are unfounded, at least for now.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists: Don’t Worry, Adding Human Brain Cells to Animal Brains Is Fine

By Dan Robitzski

The University of Chicago and two national labs are launching the first quantum tech startup-focused accelerator in the country.
Quantum Physics

The First-Ever Startup Accelerator for Quantum Tech Just Launched

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that major depressive disorder might actually make people's bodies start to age faster than they should be at a cellular level.
Health & Medicine

Yet Another Reason To Treat Depression: It Could Literally Age You

By Dan Robitzski

When a robot messes up, people are way more likely to find it infuriating if it looks like a person. But we're also more likely to accept its apology.
Robotics

Study: Humanoid Robots Are More Annoying When They F*ck Up

By Dan Robitzski

Lakes and rivers on Mars likely dried up and reappeared several times over the course of history before they went away for good.
Science & Energy

The Lakes of Mars Likely Dried Up Multiple Times Before Totally Vanishing

By Dan Robitzski

an Australian startup built a laser that could blast orbital debris orbiting the Earth out of the way without needing to launch any new spacecraft.
Space

Startup Says Its Super Powerful Laser Can Blast Space Junk From Down on the Earth’s Surface

By Dan Robitzski

Oceanic life is fleeing the increasingly-hot equator for more hospitable water, and a mass extinction event is likely to follow.
Climate Change

Scientists: Mass Extinction Is Coming as Organisms Flee the Equator

By Dan Robitzski

A man from Missouri was just sentenced to 12 years in prison after he repeatedly tried to buy chemical weapons with Bitcoin.
Science & Energy

Man Sentenced for Buying Chemical Weapons With Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing body of evidence that the chemical TCE, banned in several countries but common in the US, is causing a huge wave of Parkinson's Disease.
Developments

A Common Chemical Is Causing a Huge Wave of Parkinson’s Disease, Doctor Warns

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers says it discovered entirely new coronaviruses in genetic data released by agricultural labs in China.
Viruses

Scientists Claim to Discover “Unexpected” New Viruses in Wuhan

By Dan Robitzski

Roughly one in three coronavirus patients are diagnosed with some sort of neurological or psychological condition within six months, according to a study.
Brain

A Third of COVID Patients Are Diagnosed With “Brain Disease”

By Dan Robitzski

A new model shows that we don't need dark energy to explain the expansion of the universe. It might be caused by some new property of dark matter instead.
Energy

Dark Energy, Thought to Comprise Most of the Universe, Might Be Totally Fake

By Dan Robitzski

In a massive review of existing mouse research, scientists linked a high-sugar, high-fat diet to cognitive impairments later in life.
Food

Mice Fed Fast Food Get Noticeably Stupider, Scientists Warn

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just dropped a 14,000 pound model of its Orion spacecraft into a big pool to make sure that it would hold up during a splashdown.
NASA

Watch as NASA Drops a Spacecraft Into a Huge Dunk Tank

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple research teams are working toward a vaccine that protects against every coronavirus at once, including COVID-19 and the common cold.
Viruses

Scientists About to Start Testing a Universal Coronavirus Vaccine in Humans

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations show that a compact fusion reactor with compressed plasma would actually produce more electricity than it takes in.
Energy

Simulation Shows This Fusion Reactor Doing Something Amazing

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook has been permitting the Chinese government to buy ads that deny it's committing acts of genocide against its Muslim Uyghur population.
Future Society

Facebook Lets Chinese Government Run Genocide-Denying Ads

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists says that robodogs could become a suitable, lower-cost replacement for biological seeing eye dogs for visually impaired people.
Robot Dogs

Scientists Want to Replace Seeing Eye Dogs With Robodogs

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers posted the leaked private information of over 533 million Facebook users online. The breach was so big it even includes Mark Zuckerberg's data.
Science & Energy

New Facebook Leak Was So Huge It Included Mark Zuckerberg’s Personal Data

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists finally figured out what caused the gigantic spider-like formations on Mars' south pole by recreating the planet's environment in a lab.
Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Explain Mysterious “Spiders” Spotted on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time in the US, a formerly-homeless person moved into a 3D-printed house that he says turned his life around.
Future Society

Formerly Homeless Man Now Living in 3D Printed House

By Dan Robitzski

The gigantic blobs buried within the Earth's mantle, thought to be fragments of the ancient protoplanet Theia, are unfathomably huge.
Science & Energy

Pieces of Alien Planet Buried Inside Earth Are “Millions of Times Larger Than Mount Everest”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has been teasing that there are two yet-undiscovered Easter eggs on its Perseverance Rover. Anyone who wants to find them has until Easter to try.
Mars

NASA Says There Are Still Easter Eggs on Its Mars Rover That Nobody Has Discovered

By Dan Robitzski

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine can be exhilarating. Not only from the personal security, but also the experience of a public health program actually working.
Viruses

People Are Experiencing a “Contact High” at Vaccination Centers

By Dan Robitzski

China's space station is preparing for the first crewed missions to launch and assemble its next space station, Tiangong-3.
Off-World

Chinese Astronauts Prepare To Assemble Space Station in Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers in China are recording sex tapes marketed as "home videos" from people's home security cameras. They claim to have thousands and thousands of them.
Science & Energy

Hackers Are Stealing Sex Vids From Home Security Systems and Selling Them

By Dan Robitzski

According to a high-ranking organizer, it's possible the Summer Olympics in Tokyo will be canceled due to the international coronavirus outbreak.
Developments

Japan Is Still Trying to Hold the Olympics in 2021

By Dan Robitzski

A truck carrying barrels of uranium heafluoride, a radioactive ingredient used to make nuclear power plant fuel, crashed on Wednesday morning.
Science & Energy

Truck Carrying Uranium Crashes in North Carolina, Prompting HAZMAT Response

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists accidentally discovered that their experimental gene therapy could restore a blind patient's vision for over 15 months.
Gene Editing

Gene Therapy Injected Into Eyeball Restores Blind Patient’s Vision

By Dan Robitzski

The Solar Orbiter, a NASA and ESA spacecraft that's exploring the Sun, is kept safe from heat and radiation by a coating of charred, ground-up bones.
Science & Energy

NASA’s Sun-Exploring Spacecraft Contains Powdered Bones

By Dan Robitzski

For some reason, people love to vandalize Google offshoot Waymo's self-driving vehicles, especially by throwing eggs and ice cream.
Self-Driving Vehicles

People Are Throwing Eggs at Google’s Self-Driving Vans

By Dan Robitzski

The UK Army is drastically reducing the number of human soldiers in its ranks, partly to make room for new military robots.
Robotics

Anticipating Robot Soldiers, Britain Is Downsizing Its Human Troops

By Dan Robitzski

430,000 years ago, a powerful blast of ultrahot, superaccelerated air hit Earth and incinerated a huge area of Antarctica.
Science & Energy

Ancient Antarctica Was Blasted by a Giant Flamethrower From Space

By Dan Robitzski

Uranus is giving off X-rays, according to a new study. Now scientists need to take a closer look and figure out what's actually causing them.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover X-Rays Blasting Out of Uranus

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist working on an artifiical placenta that provides oxygen for babies born prematurely says it may be ready for human experiments in five years.
Prosthetics and Devices

Artificial Placentas for Human Babies Coming Within Five Years, Scientist Says

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists can now filter freely-floating DNA out of the air, allowing them to track and monitor what animals are in the area.
Science & Energy

New Technique Identifies DNA Floating Through the Air

By Dan Robitzski

Crypto scammers are publishing apps that imitate real bitcoin wallet companies to scam crypto owners out of their savings.
Science & Energy

Man Downloads Wrong App, Losing $600,000 in Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

World Health Organization investigators say it's "extremely unlikely" that the coronavirus leaked from a lab, but the WHO chief isn't satisfied.
Developments

WHO Head: We’re Still Not Sure if COVID Escaped From a Lab

By Dan Robitzski

Low-tech Magazine's entire site is powered by solar panels on the author's balcony. It's part of a plan to make the internet less energy-intensive.
Solar Power

This Magazine’s Website Is 100 Percent Solar Powered

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built a bacteria's genetic code from scratch and, after years of improvements, got it to reproduce just like the real thing.
Biology

Scientists Engineer Synthetic Bacteria That Multiplies Like the Real Thing

By Dan Robitzski

The US Strategic Command, an agency that oversees the nuclear arsenal, tweeted our some nonsense. Here's what happened behind the scenes.
Future Society

Child Tweets Nonsense From Official US Military Account

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental antibody treatment made adult mice regrow missing teeth, hinting that a treatment for people could be around the corner.
Treatments

New Treatment Makes Teeth Grow Back

By Dan Robitzski

COVID case numbers in the US have started to slowly creep upward, and that has CDC Director Rochelle Walensky deeply scared.
Developments

CDC Director Says She’s “Scared,” Begs Americans to Take COVID Seriously

By Dan Robitzski

Blasting mouse livers with ultrasound beams made the mice lose excess weight, potentially giving doctors a way to prevent diabetes.
Health & Medicine

Ultrasound Blasts Made Overfed Mice Lose Weight, and Scientists Say it Might Prevent Diabetes

By Dan Robitzski

The US military is developing an aircraft carrier loaded up with semi-autonomous drones that flies in the air instead of floating on water.
DARPA

DARPA Is Working on a Gigantic, Flying Aircraft Carrier

By Dan Robitzski

In 2018, Elon Musk implied that Tesla employees would lose their stock options if they unionized. Now, the federal government decided that he broke the law.
Elon Musk

Government Orders Elon Musk to Delete Anti-Union Tweet

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious disease outbreak in Sokoto, Nigeria killed one student and infected 30 others. The government still doesn't know what it was.
Developments

Mystery Disease Outbreak Kills Girl in Nigeria, Sickens Dozens More

By Dan Robitzski

Here's what people want to do with their time as soon as they're fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and can partially reenter society.
Developments

After Their Second Vaccine Kicks In, This Is How People Are Reentering Society

By Dan Robitzski

Mathematician and astronomer Claudio Maccone published more research on how to defend Earth from asteroids with orbital missiles.
Off-World

Scientist: If Asteroids Threaten Earth, We Should Blow Them Up With Missiles

By Dan Robitzski

A study suggests that the mysterious, giant blobs hidden in the Earth's mantle might be the remains of a protoplanet that crashed billions of years ago.
Science & Energy

There Appears to Be a Huge Chunk of an Ancient Planet Buried Inside Earth

By Dan Robitzski

The European Southern Observatory published a video that shows what it would be like to leave Earth, plunge into M87, and arrive at its central black hole.
Science & Energy

Amazing Video Zooms All the Way From Earth to First Photographed Black Hole

By Dan Robitzski

IBM's Project Debater AI is getting better and better at crafting arguments. We're dreading what will happen when that thing makes its way to the public.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Is Designed to Debate People, and It Could Ruin Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Crypto fan Cameron Winklevoss says that the NFT fad is going to "liberate art." This whole exercise is getting exhausting.
NFTs

Crypto Titan Makes Grandiose, Nonsense Claim That NFTs “Liberate” Art

By Dan Robitzski

Europe Builds Autonomous Robotic Orb to Explore Lunar Caves
Robotics

Europe Builds Autonomous Robotic Orb to Explore Lunar Caves

By Dan Robitzski

Richard Stallman, the former MIT scientist who defended Jeffrey Epstein and criticized age of consent laws, was just restored to a position of power.
Future Society

Scientist Who Defended Epstein and Pedophilia Reinstated to Free Software Foundation Board

By Dan Robitzski

A gruesome study found that one kind of brain cell actually gets more active and starts to grow for hours after people die.
Neuroscience and Brain

After You Die, Some Cells in Your Brain Become More Active

By Dan Robitzski

Blue Origin and NASA are developing artificial gravity by rotating the entire rocket and using centrifugal force, kind of like a carnival ride.
Blue Origin

NASA and Blue Origin Developing Artificial Gravity Trick

By Dan Robitzski