More from Dan Robitzski (Page 13)

Elon Musk and SpaceX want to rename Boca Chica Village, the community near its Starship launch site, to "Starbase, Texas."
Off-World

Elon Musk Wants to Rename a Texas Town “Starbase”

By Dan Robitzski

An Indian official announced that a major power outage initially dismissed as a technical failure seems to have been caused by Chinese hackers.
Science & Energy

Indian Official Claims Huge Blackout May Have Been a Hack

By Dan Robitzski

President Biden announced that the US will likely have enough coronavirus vaccines to inoculate every adult in the country by the end of May.
Viruses

White House Says US Will Have Enough Vaccine For All Adults by May

By Dan Robitzski

Quantum phenomena like proton tunneling can, in unusual cases, cause point mutations in human DNA, according to a new study.
DNA

Quantum Physics Can Mutate Human DNA, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A study shows that the coronavirus can directly attack and kill heart cells, potentially settling a longstanding scientific debate.
Viruses

Study: COVID-19 Can Kill Heart Cells

By Dan Robitzski

The Archdiocese of New Orleans just issued a dangerous statement calling the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine "morally compromised."
Viruses

Catholic Archdiocese Calls COVID Vaccine “Morally Compromised”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suggest putting a fish farm on the Moon after discovering that seabass and meagre eggs could survive the rough journey.
Moon

Scientists Suggest Farming Fish on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary data suggests that the coronavirus variant P.1 is capable of reinfecting people who already survived COVID-19.
Viruses

New P.1 Strain Can Re-Infect People Who Already Caught COVID

By Dan Robitzski

Vaccination passports could allow immunized people to travel or re-enter society, but many people in already-vulnerable groups would be excluded.
Developments

Expert: Vaccination Passports Could Become a “Dystopian Nightmare”

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is preparing for a grounded voltage test of its all-electric X-57 Maxwell airplane, which will prepare the team for actual test flights.
Advanced Transport

NASA Is Testing an All-Electric Airplane

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are calling on NASA to rename the James Webb Space Telescope due to Webb's extended legacy and questionable human rights record.
James Webb Space Telescope

James Webb Hated Gay People. Why Are We Naming a Telescope After Him?

By Dan Robitzski

Simon Kindleysides, who's paralyzed from the waist down, walked over 100 miles in a powered exoskeleton during February to raise money for the NHS.
RX and Medicine

Paralyzed Man Walks More Than 100 Miles in Powered Exoskeleton

By Dan Robitzski

A company Brain Scientific is developing an "e-tattoo" that can be injected under the skin in epilepsy patients and scan their brains for looming seizures.
Prosthetics and Devices

This Startup Wants to Tattoo Brain-Reading Electrodes on Your Skull

By Dan Robitzski

Plastic surgeon Scott Green signed into a courtroom Zoom proceeding to fight a traffic violation while he was operating on a patient.
Developments

Surgeon Contests Traffic Ticket While Operating on Patient

By Dan Robitzski

The British military is running drills and combat exercises in virtual reality, using simulations that run on the Unreal Engine.
Virtual Reality

British Soldiers Training for Combat in Virtual Reality

By Dan Robitzski

A trio of robotics executives share how they try to prevent their products from being misused once a customer buys them for whatever purposes.
Robotics

Robotics Executives: Here’s How to Keep Our Creations in Line

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers figured out how to make smart tattoos with built in lights that could become useful medical sensors — or at the very least look extremely cool
Science & Energy

New Smart Tattoos Have Built-In Lights

By Dan Robitzski

After an internal and public outcry over how it mishandled AI ethics, Google is trying to save face and restore trust in its work.
Google

Google Promised Staff They’ll Be Less Evil With AI

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Japanese scientists simulated 4,000 entirely new universes to try and understand what happened in the earliest moments of ours.
Science & Energy

Scientists Simulate Thousands of New Universes to Understand How Ours Began

By Dan Robitzski

New studies show that people who already recovered from COVID-19 and have antibodies in their system get "robust" protection from a single Pfizer dose.
Viruses

Single Pfizer Dose “Robust” For Those Who Have Had COVID

By Dan Robitzski

Russian engineers built a bizarre pilotless aircraft that flies by flapping its six wings like a gigantic, terrifying dragonfly.
Robots and Machines

Look At This Horrifying Aircraft That Flaps Its Wings Like a Dragonfly

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found ancient dust that they say is conclusive evidence an asteroid killed the dinosaurs tens of millions of years ago.
Science & Energy

Scientists Find Smoking Gun Evidence in Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Case

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates wants everyday Bitcoin investors to remember that Elon Musk can afford to cut and run, but they likely cannot.
Elon Musk

Bill Gates: You Should Probably Not Follow Elon Musk ‘To The Moon’ On BTC

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that the artificial intelligence algorithm GPT-3 is perfectly capable of writing college papers, as long as you don't mind a mediocre GPA.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Will Give Perfectly Accurate Half-Assed Effort In Writing Your Term Paper

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA research suggests that Mars' dust storms make the planet give off gravitational waves that push its already-scarce atmosphere out into space.
Mars

Mars Is Radiating Gravity Waves, Which Is Bad News For Human Settlers

By Dan Robitzski

Since they peaked in the middle of January, the number of new daily coronavirus infections deaths has been in consistent decline.
Developments

COVID Deaths Have Dropped Dramatically Since January

By Dan Robitzski

The heart failure drug ivabradine seems to treat the long-hauler symptoms that can last for months after a coronavirus infection.
Viruses

Doctors Find Drug That Seems to Treat Long-Hauler COVID Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

When scientists took a closer look at a baby with COVID-19, they found that the kid caught a previously-undiscovered variant and had a massive viral load.
Viruses

This Baby Had 51,000 Times as Much Coronavirus as Expected

By Dan Robitzski

The European Union wants to become climate neutral by 2050, so scientists are building a simulation of the entire planet to help it get there.
Climate Change

Scientists Start Work on Simulation of Entire Earth

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists ground up ancient Mars rocks to see if microbes could survive on it. They did, and its biosignatures could help the Perseverance team.
Science & Energy

Scientists Grow Microbes on Actual Mars Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that black holes made of dark matter might be lurking inside neutron stars and eating them from the inside.
Science & Energy

Black Holes May Devour Stars From the Inside, Like Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

Whistleblowers at the Arizona Department of Corrections say hundreds of inmates are being held past their release date due to buggy management software.
Science & Energy

Whistleblowers: Flawed Software Held Hundreds of Prisoners Past Release Dates

By Dan Robitzski

The United States Army is building a machine gun-like laser weapon 1 million times more powerful than anything else in its arsenal.
Robots and Machines

US Army Testing Machine Gun-Style Laser Weapon That Vaporizes Targets

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers built an artificial muscle material that gets stronger as it works, potentially leading to soft robots that adapt to their jobs.
Robots and Machines

Scientists Invent Artificial Muscle That Gets Stronger With Exercise

By Dan Robitzski

Prominent physicist Sabine Hossenfelder argues that simulation theory more closely resembles religious belief than a serious scientific hypothesis.
Future Society

Physicist Trashes Simulation Theory, Says It’s Basically a Religion

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just released a map that shows over 25,000 different supermassive black holes in a tiny portion of the night sky.
Science & Energy

Behold This Sky Map of 25,000 Supermassive Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists cloned an endangered species for the first time with the successful birth of Elizabeth Ann, a black-footed ferret.
Science & Energy

For the First Time, Scientists Clone Endangered Species

By Dan Robitzski

Anthony Levandowski decided to shut down the artificial intelligence-focused church he started and donated its funds to the NAACP.
Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence-Worshipping Church Officially Shuts Down

By Dan Robitzski

Another earthquake hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Saturday, further complicating the effort to manage and decommission it.
Energy

Another Earthquake Nails the Crumbling Fukushima Power Plant

By Dan Robitzski

The US Department of Justice indicted three state-backed North Korean hackers for stealing a massive pile of cryptocurrency.
Cryptocurrency

WANTED: Three North Korean Hackers For Trying to Steal $1.3B In Crypto

By Dan Robitzski

Scienists managed to open a two-way line of real-time communication with people who were having lucid dreams, some of whom were able to solve math problems.
Science & Energy

Scientists Communicate With Lucid Dreamers During Sleep

By Dan Robitzski

Steve Jurczyk was catapulted from third-in-line to acting leader of NASA when Biden took office. Here's some of what we know about him and his leadership.
NASA

Seven Facts About the New Head of NASA, Steve Jurczyk

By Dan Robitzski

When Perseverance lands, NASA engineers will need to start living and working on Mars time to make the most of the mission's beginning.
Mars

NASA Scientists Need to Live and Work on “Mars Time”

By Dan Robitzski

New coronavirus infections in the United States and around the world dropped by a significant number over the previous week.
Viruses

Coronavirus Cases Around the World Are Finally Dropping

By Dan Robitzski

Computer scientist and investor Sailesh Ramakrishnan says that the space industry is about to see a "gold rush" that will transform off-world exploration
NASA

Former NASA Scientist Predicts “Gold Rush” in Space

By Dan Robitzski

New York just sued Amazon over its failure to protect warehouse workers from the coronavirus and for punishing anyone who spoke out.
Viruses

New York State Sues Amazon Over Coronavirus Protocols

By Dan Robitzski

Severe cases of COVID-19 might lead to the formation of growths called nodules behind people's eyeballs, but scientists aren't yet sure what that means.
Viruses

Severe COVID-19 Might Lead to Strange Growths Behind the Eyes

By Dan Robitzski

Russia has tentatively agreed to collaborate on an upcoming lunar base with China, threatening NASA's position as the world's top space agency.
Off-World

China and Russia Agree to Collaborate on Lunar Base

By Dan Robitzski

British scientists are cleared to begin a human challenge study on the coronavirus, in which volunteers are willingly infected in a controlled environment.
Viruses

Scientists Are About to Give Research Subjects COVID on Purpose

By Dan Robitzski

A new artificial intelligence algorithm can create full human genomes indistinguishable from the real thing, but it's not clear how useful it is.
Artificial Intelligence

New Algorithm Generates Synthetic Human Genetic Code

By Dan Robitzski

Epic Games plans to release a browser tool that will quickly create almost-photorealistic CGI characters with the Unreal Engine.
Science & Energy

New Browser App Lets You Create Photorealistic Fake People

By Dan Robitzski

A group that dispenses instructions on how to 3D print functional guns at home is about to release an upgraded assault rifle.
3D Printing

You Can Now 3D Print an Entire Semi-Automatic Rifle at Home

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates says that he doesn't really see the appeal of investing in rockets to Mars, saying money would be better spent on climate change and medicine.
Mars

Bill Gates Says That Going to Mars Is Silly

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency wants astronauts to better represent humanity, so its recruiting more women and people with physical disabilities.
Off-World

Europe Invites People With Disabilities to Become Astronauts

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that future Martian explorers should be able to grow their own oxygen-producing bacteria without relying on air shipments from Earth.
Mars

Scientists Show That Algae Could Grow Using Only Mars Resources

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified seven new coronavirus variants that seem to have emerged independently of each other within the United States.
Viruses

New COVID Strains Appear to Have Evolved in United States

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a gene-hacked version of the fall armyworm, a notorious pest, that lays eggs that die off before hatching.
Biology

Scientists Gene-Hacked a Pest Caterpillar’s Eggs to Self-Destruct

By Dan Robitzski

In four years, Jaguar will start to exclusively sell electric-powered cars as part of a company-wide shift away from gas-burning vehicles.
Advanced Transport

Jaguar Says All Its Cars Will Be Electric in Just Four Years

By Dan Robitzski

As the pandemic rages on, the mental health and wellbeing of young adults and children is suffering to an alarming degree.
Mental Health

The Pandemic Has Shattered Young People’s Mental Health

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists accidentally discovered a bizarre ecosystem of creatures on the seafloor under Antarctica, hundreds of miles from any apparent source of food.
Biology

Scientists Surprised by “Strange Creatures” Under a Mile of Antarctic Ice

By Dan Robitzski

Guinea declared that it's facing a new Ebola epidemic on Sunday after seven people caught the infectious disease and three died.
Developments

In a Grim Development, There’s Officially a New Ebola Epidemic

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA-sponsored report finds that the agency has fallen behind on its push to develop nuclear propulsion for spacecraft, threatening a 2039 Mars mission.
Mars

NASA Report Recommends “Aggressive” Funding for Nuclear-Powered Mars Mission

By Dan Robitzski

A new neural net algorithm can listen to people's heartbeats with radio waves and guess how they're feeling 71 percent of the time.
Artificial Intelligence

New AI Detects Your Emotions by Scanning You With Radio Signals

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Japanese scientists cultured stem cells into hair follicles that can naturally grow back lost hair after it falls out.
Treatments

These Lab-Grown Follicles Could Offer New Treatment for Baldness

By Dan Robitzski