More from Dan Robitzski (Page 12)

Generation X and especially millennials are aging shockingly poorly, according to a massive new study on health outcomes.
Studies

Millennials Are Aging Really Badly, Experts Say

By Dan Robitzski

The anti-masker woman who assaulted her Uber driver in that horrifying viral video turned herself in to the police and faces up to 20 years in prison.
Developments

Woman Faces Years in Prison For Coughing on Uber Driver

By Dan Robitzski

A recent survey of human-made chemicals inside pregnant women's bodies found dozens of plastics and other compounds that scientists can't identify.
Studies

Scientists Detect Chemicals Inside Pregnant Women They Can’t Even Identify

By Dan Robitzski

A new satellite called ELSA-d will snare space junk and drag it to safety with a powerful magnet to help clean up low-Earth orbit.
Off-World

Just-Launched Spacecraft Will Use Grappling Hook to Destroy Space Junk

By Dan Robitzski

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Military

Haunting Photos Show Missiles Milliseconds Before Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that they could use precise ultrasound to read neural activity and even predict behavior before it happens.
Neuroscience and Brain

Caltech Scientists Say They Can Read Human Brain With Ultrasound

By Dan Robitzski

The architecture firm ABIBOO released mockups for a futuristic Martian city that would become a sustainable, off-world home to 250,000 people.
Mars

Plans Unveiled for Grand Mars City

By Dan Robitzski

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Food

Scientists Link Eating This Common Baseball Stadium Food With Dementia Risk

By Dan Robitzski

Terrifying video footage shows a Tesla Model Y, with its self-driving system engaged, start to drift into multiple lanes of oncoming traffic.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Watch Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Mode Steer Toward Oncoming Highway Traffic

By Dan Robitzski

Janelle Shane trained the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 to write some incredible pickup lines. We think they have a shot at actually working.
Artificial Intelligence

You Should Definitely Try These Horrible Pickup Lines Written by AI

By Dan Robitzski

Rancho Mirage, California will soon become home to the first neighborhood made entirely of 3D-printed houses in the United States.
3D Printing

An Entire 3D-Printed Neighborhood Is Springing Up in a California Desert

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's Starship does a white-knuckles "belly flop" maneuver during its test hops. Here's what it would feel like to ride inside Starship during it.
Starship

This Is What It Would Be Like to Ride Starship During Its Epic “Belly Flop” Maneuver

By Dan Robitzski

Other planets and asteroids might have volcanoes made of metal instead of rock. Scientists tried to model what an eruption actually looks like.
Science & Energy

Here’s What a Metal Volcano Would Look Like

By Dan Robitzski

BioNTech cofounder Ozlem Tureci says that the company is returning to its original goal of developing a vaccine against cancer.
Cancer

COVID Vaccine Developer: Cancer Shots Are Next

By Dan Robitzski

A new approach to brain-computer interface takes away implants and replaces them with millions of nanoparticles that can read neural activity.
Neuroscience and Brain

DARPA Is Funding Nanoparticles That Permeate Brain to Read Neural Signals

By Dan Robitzski

A professor at Canada's York University refused to reschedule an exam that a student in Myanmar was unable to take because of a military coup.
Future Society

Professor Refuses to Reschedule Exam Because of Military Coup

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a mountain of seismic data from NASA's InSight spacecraft, scientists finally took a precise measurement of the size of Mars' core.
Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Measure the Size of Mars’ Core

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary research suggests that coronavirus vaccines might also serve as a treatment for persistent long-hauler symptoms.
Viruses

Coronavirus Vaccines Seem to Treat Long-Hauler Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

In recent years, China has exported hundreds of its heavily-armed "Pterodactyl" combat drones to countries around the world.
Drones

China Is Selling Deadly “Pterodactyl” Drones Around the World

By Dan Robitzski

The marketing agency ICF Next promised employees a coronavirus vaccine. Instead, it was a surprise test on cybersecurity practices.
Viruses

A Company Promised Employees Vaccines as a Phishing Test

By Dan Robitzski

The UAE is testing a system that uses drones to electrocute clouds and trigger rainfall in hopes of replenishing dwindling water supplies.
Drones

The UAE Is Using Drones to Manipulate Weather

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization investigators probing the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic finally seem to have some answers.
Developments

WHO Investigators Think They Found Where the Pandemic Really Began

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers grew a working tear gland in the lab that they say can help them study disease and perhaps someday might be used as a transplant.
Developments

Lab Grows Human Tear Glands That Can Actually Cry

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing pile of evidence that dark matter bosons can clump together and form "ghost stars" that are totally invisible to our eyes and telescopes.
Science & Energy

There’s Growing Suspicion That The Universe Is Filled With Invisible “Ghost Stars”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists confirmed that a powerful antineutrino crashed into Antarctica in 2016, triggering a subatomic phenomenon that had never been verified before.
Physics

Scientists Confirm an Incredibly Powerful Antimatter Particle Crashed Into Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists dropped a spherical telescope into Lake Baikal, where they hope it will spot subatomic neutrinos zipping by as they pass through the Earth.
Physics

Scientists Dump Telescope Into the World’s Deepest Lake to Hunt for Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently released footage of the first dust devil, a tiny, traveling twister, spotted by the Perseverance rover on Mars.
Science & Energy

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Just Spotted a Tiny Twister on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Pfizer executives recently announced that they're looking into raising the price of the coroanvirus vaccine once the worst of the pandemic is over.
Viruses

Pharma Execs Scheming About How to Make More Money Off COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study found that walking speed seemed to help predict COVID disease severity and deaths, regardless of related factors like obesity.
Viruses

Your Walking Speed Might Predict Whether COVID Kills You

By Dan Robitzski

A new kind of smart fabric integrates electronics that can turn clothes into glowing, billboard-like screens or even working keyboards.
Science & Energy

New Smart Fabric Can Turn Clothing Into a Huge Screen

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a way to turn food scraps into viable jet fuel that burns cleaner than traditional petroleum fuels and works with the planes we have today.
Food

Food Waste Could Power the Jet Engines We’re Currently Flying With, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Medical residents are now under investigation for posting pictures of removed organs on Instagram as if they were game show hosts.
Developments

Doctors Investigated For Posting Surgically Removed Organs on Instagram

By Dan Robitzski

After the military coup in Myanmar, Japan's space agency halted a joint project with Myanma scientists to prevent it from being exploited by the army.
International Space Station

Satellites Are Stranded on the ISS Because of a Military Coup

By Dan Robitzski

Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak tweeted that the term "video game" won't properly encapsulate the digital entertainment neuralink is working on.
Future Society

Neuralink Co-Founder: “We’re Gonna Need a Better Term Than ‘Video Game'”

By Dan Robitzski

As new data on how coronavirus vaccines protect against different variants emerges, the South African strain seems particularly troubling.
Viruses

This Particular COVID Variant Has Vaccine Experts Concerned

By Dan Robitzski

Beer giant Molson Coors filed a report with the SEC revealing that it's the victim of a hack that seems to have brought beer production to a stop.
Science & Energy

Hackers Bring Beer Production To a Halt

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists submitted a new cancer medication for the FDA's approval without having experimented on a single animal.
Cancer

Scientists Create Cancer Drug Without Any Animal Tests

By Dan Robitzski

Oculus founder Palmer Luckey recently said that video games would be a whole lot more interesting if we faced real-world danger for dying in-game.
Robots and Machines

Oculus Founder Suggests Video Games That Kill You in Real Life

By Dan Robitzski

In order to protect Earth's biodiversity from global crises, a team of engineers suggests building a massive sperm bank and seed vault on the Moon.
Moon

Scientists Are Aiming to Send 6.7 Million Sperm Samples to the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Nanoprobes called bioharmonophores can seek out and bind to cancer cells, making them glow brightly under medical scanners.
Cancer

Cancer-Hunting Nanotech Makes Tumors Light Up

By Dan Robitzski

A meteor rocketed over Vermont and exploded with such a powerful blast that it shook buildings and registered as seismic activity.
Science & Energy

This Meteor Exploded So Violently That It Shook Entire Buildings Below

By Dan Robitzski

A Kroger clinic in Virginia accidentally gave some people injections of air instead of the coronavirus vaccines they thought they were getting.
Viruses

Vaccine Distribution Site Accidentally Gave Out Empty Shots

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's new Mars rover Perseverance scooped up its first rock and soil samples, officially beginning the hunt for extraterrestrial life.
Mars

Perseverance Is Now Officially Searching for Life on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Citizens were outraged after the mayor of the Japanese town Suttsu volunteered to be considered as a nucelar waste storage site.
Nuclear Fusion

Japanese Mayor’s House Firebombed to Protest Nuclear Power

By Dan Robitzski

Some scientists suggest that gene-hacking trees to grow faster and be more resilient could help fight climate change by restoring carbon sinks.
Climate Change

Report: Climate Change Is Now Causing “Worrying” Health Impacts

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought the asteroid belt was either the remains of a destroyed planet or the raw materials to make a new one, but the answer is more complex.
Off-World

Is the Asteroid Belt What’s Left of an Obliterated Planet?

By Dan Robitzski

An Australian soccer player with an injury that left him with quadriplegia is learning to walk again with the help of a robotic exoskeleton.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Soccer Player Walks Again Using Exoskeleton Suit

By Dan Robitzski

As the vaccine rollout continues, a smaller proportion of people who catch the coronavirus are being sent to the hospital.
Viruses

COVID Hospitalizations Are Plummeting With Vaccine Rollout

By Dan Robitzski

Canadian police seized a Boring Company "Not-a-Flamethrower" during a drug bust, despite the weapon perhaps being technically legal.
Elon Musk

Police Just Seized Another Elon Musk Flamethrower During a Drug Bust

By Dan Robitzski

Google pulled text from old memes in its search results, as evidenced by when it said throwing car batteries into the ocean was good for the planet.
Google

Why Was Google Telling People to Throw Car Batteries Into the Ocean?

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists took a closer look at the comet-like tail that our Moon often grows and figured out that it comes from sporadic meteor impacts.
Science & Energy

The Moon Has a Huge, Invisible, Comet-Like Tail

By Dan Robitzski

China seems to be nearing completion on Sharp Eyes, which is its plan to surveil every public area in the country with spy cameras,
Future Society

China Is Blanketing Every Public Space in Spy Cameras

By Dan Robitzski

NASA research reveals that Mars dust is whipping around the inner solar system, blasting spacecraft and even reaching Earth.
Science & Energy

Mars Is Spraying the Earth With Dust Storms, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

There are several major coronavirus variants spreading throughout the world. Here's what you should know about the most important ones.
Viruses

Five Coronavirus Variants That You Should Know About

By Dan Robitzski

Given a choice, a surprising number of people prefer the convenience of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine over the increased effectiveness of the others.
Viruses

People Are Obsessed With the Vaccine That Only Requires One Dose

By Dan Robitzski

Saharan dust carrying radioactive isotopes from France's nuclear bomb tests in the 1960s is now blowing back into France.
Environment

France Tested Nuclear Weapons in Africa. Now Radioactive Dust Is Drifting Back Into France.

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new survey, 69 percent of Americans either want or have at least partially received a coronavirus vaccine, signalling growing optimism.
Viruses

69 Percent of Americans Want the COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A startup wants to deliver cancer drugs directly to brain tumors via tiny, injectible devices that look like little drills.
Brain

Startup Creates Tiny Drill to Burrow Through Your Brain With Magnets

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's Boston Dynamics robodog named "Zeus" was spotted sniffing around the site of the recent Starship SN10 test and explosion.
Robot Dogs

There’s a Robodog Walking Around the Site of the SpaceX Starship Explosion

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered water and organic matter on the surface of an asteroid, suggesting that impacts could have brought life's precursors to Earth.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Water, Organic Materials on Surface of Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

"Wolverine," a top-secret project by the Alphabet-owned moonshot company X, is building devices that grant superhuman hearing.
Prosthetics and Devices

Secret Alphabet Project “Wolverine” Aims to Give People Superhuman Hearing

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors are identifying patients who were simultaneously infected by multiple coronavirus variants, raising concerns about new mutations.
Developments

People Are Catching Two COVID Strains at the Same Time

By Dan Robitzski

The CDC updated its official recommendations for surviving a zombie apocalypse. Experts say it's actually a valuable resource.
Developments

CDC Updates Guidelines For Zombie Apocalypse

By Dan Robitzski

Experts expected a new baby boom during the COVID-19 era, but the birth rate dropped instead. Experts say that this is a growing crisis for the country.
Developments

Experts: The United States’ Dropping Birth Rate is Becoming a “Crisis”

By Dan Robitzski