More from Dan Robitzski (Page 15)

A team of scientists put out a call for a global, "wartime-like" push to build hundreds of carbon capture facilities around the world.

Scientists Call For Massive Global Network of Carbon Capture Plants

By Dan Robitzski

Health officials in China are testing for COVID-19 with anal swabs, citing limited evidence that the virus lingers in the digestive tract.

China Is Now Using Anal Swabs to Test for COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

Overall numbers are still low, but more American adults now say that they would take the coronavirus vaccine than did last month.

The Number of Americans Who Want a COVID Vaccine Is Slowly Growing

By Dan Robitzski

Janet Yellen, Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Treasury, suggests that it's time to crack down on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.

Top Biden Appointee Suggests Cracking Down on Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Yet another study suggests there's a strong condition between COVID-19 and a variety of psychiatric and neurological conditions.

Health & Medicine

More Evidence Links COVID to Mental Illness, Neurological Disease

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a neural implant they can both control and recharge remotely, cutting down on the need for battery-changing surgeries.

Prosthetics and Devices

Remote Controlled Neural Implant Controls Rats’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

A promo video shows gamers running around their city, taking cover behind real cars and buildings, while playing an augmented reality first-person shooter.

This Augmented Reality First Person Shooter Looks Pretty Awesome

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA satellite found a bizarre six-star solar system where each of the stars are paired up in gravitationally-bound binary systems.

Astronomers Discover Solar System With Six Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who once said religious amulets in his wallet would block the coronavirus, tested positive for COVID-19.

The President of Mexico Said Religious Amulets Would Protect Him Against COVID. Then He Caught It.

By Dan Robitzski

Axiom Space, the company planning to launch the first entirely-private mission into orbit, just announced its four-person crew.

First Entirely-Private Mission to Space Station Names Its Crew

By Dan Robitzski

Chemicals like phthalates seem to reduce the quantity and quality of men's sperm, and the problem is compounding over generations.

Men Are Losing the Ability to Reproduce, Researcher Warns

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical AI algorithm can spot problems in Black and underserved patients better than some doctors, potentially mitigating medical racism.

Scientists Trying to Build Medical AI That’s Less Racist Than Doctors

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Anthony Fauci was subjected to death threats for almost the entire duration of the pandemic, including an anthrax scare in the mail.

Fauci Says He Opened an Envelope of Suspicious Powder

By Dan Robitzski

Waymo's CEO didn't pull punches about Tesla's attempts at self-driving technology, saying he didn't even see Tesla as a competitor.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo CEO Blasts Tesla’s Self-Driving Tech

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft recently patented an AI chatbot capable of imitating dead relatives or living celebrities. Thankfully, there's no plan to actually develop it.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Patented AI to Imitate Your Dead Family

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX is stuck in a legal battle as it tries to dig for natural gas in the area surrounding its Boca Chica, Texas launchpad.

SpaceX Wants to Drill for Natural Gas in Texas

By Dan Robitzski

Electric vehicles are poised to finally become cheaper than their gas-burning counterparts thanks to improvements in battery manufacturing.

Advanced Transport

Electric Cars Are About to Become Cheaper Than Gas Ones

By Dan Robitzski

Bolstered by their respective private space industries, China and the U.S. find themselves in a new space race over who sends the first humans to Mars.

The New Space Race Is Putting Boots on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

New acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk says that he's stuck at home, running the entire space agency from his basement.

New NASA Head Says He’s Running Space Agency From His Basement

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists propose that "stupendously large" black holes between the size of a solar system and an entire galaxy could be hiding throughout the universe.

Science & Energy

New Paper Says Black Holes Could Be as Large as an Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

When Biden took office on Wednesday, he and his team quickly learned that the Trump admin. neglected to make a coronavirus vaccine distribution plan.

Biden Admin Shocked to Discover No Vaccine Distribution Plan

By Dan Robitzski

European Space Agency scientists on the International Space Station captured dazzling footage of unusual lightning called blue jets and elves.

Science & Energy

Space Station Captures Amazing Footage of Lightning From Above

By Dan Robitzski

Arnold Schwarzenegger joined the list of politicians and public figures who used their coronavirus vaccination to urge others to get vaccinated as well.

Arnold Schwarzenegger Gets COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to make a robot out of an edible gel that could improve veterinary care and make for new children's toys.

Yum, Delicious: Inventors Built an Edible Robot

By Dan Robitzski

A professional "Call of Duty" player had to retire from his eSports career after an injury to his thumb and wrist came back.

Professional Gamer Retires After Career-Ending Injury to Thumb

By Dan Robitzski

Outgoing NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine shared an emotional goodbye video in which he celebrated the space agency's success and long-term missions.

In Video, NASA Head Bridenstine Gives Emotional Goodbye

By Dan Robitzski

Vaccinating everyone on Earth still might not be enough to eradicate the coronavirus, which could spread asymptomatically behind the scenes.

Expert: We Could Vaccinate Everyone on Earth and Not Eliminate the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

After a food shipment for Russian space station crewmembers was delayed by two months, the American cohort split their rations.

On ISS, Americans Give Food to Russians After Delayed Shipment

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists in New Zealand are bombarding rooftops with volcanic rock to help the area prepare for any potential future eruptions.

Science & Energy

Scientists Fire Volcanic Rocks at Rooftops to Prove Volcanoes Are Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

Programmer Stefan Thomas has thousands of Bitcoin tucked away, but he forgot his password and only has two guesses left before he loses it forever,

Man Has Only Two Password Guesses Left to Recover $236 Million in Bitcoin

By Dan Robitzski

Disturbing footage shows a man in excruciating pain crawling out of a hospital after medical staff dismissed his pain as imaginary.

Health & Medicine

Video Shows Agonized Man Crawling Out of Hospital

By Dan Robitzski

Public health experts weigh in on how, specifically, President-elect Biden can get the coronavirus vaccine rollout on track.

Here’s How Biden Could Save the Coronavirus Vaccine Rollout

By Dan Robitzski

The average life expectancy in the United States dropped more sharply than it has in over 40 decades thanks to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Slashed the US Life Expectancy by More Than a Year

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are monitoring various species of wildlife to track whether the coronavirus can jump among different kinds of animals.

Scientists Systematically Hunting for COVID-19 in Wild Animals

By Dan Robitzski

A brain implant that delivers imperceptible, personalized electric shocks is successfully treating a woman with severe depression.

Neuroscience and Brain

Brain Implant Successfully Fights Off Depression, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked mice to produce a nerve-healing protein that treated their total paraplegia and allowed them to walk again.

RX and Medicine

Genetic Engineering Makes Paralyzed Mice Walk Again

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that Toxoplasma gondii, the brain parasite infamously spread by pet cats, is linked to a greater risk of brain cancer.

Parasite Spread to Humans by Pet Cats Linked to Brain Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office is operated at nearly double its usual capacity, and officials are scrambling to find new places to store bodies.

Los Angeles Is Literally Running Out of Space to Store Dead Bodies

By Dan Robitzski

One week after the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol building, a vast majority of Americans seemed to agree that the country is "falling apart."

79 Percent of Americans Say US Is Falling Apart

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a trick that generates methanol fuel out of water and carbon dioxide without using any fossil fuels.

New Trick Turns Air Into Synthetic Gasoline Without Using Any Fossil Fuels

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change is such a huge threat to the planet that it's difficult to conceptualize, even for experts in the field, argues a new report.

Scientists Warn of “Ghastly Future” for Global Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The UFC is working with Johns Hopkins University to see if psychedelic drugs can help fighters with traumatic brain injuries.

UFC Investigating Whether Psychedelics Help Fighters With Traumatic Brain Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX darkened its Starlink satellites, but they're stil blocking and interfering with astronomers' observations of the night sky.

SpaceX’s “Darkened” Satellites Still Messing Up Research, Astronomers Say

By Dan Robitzski

Would a head-on collision with a Cheeto orbiting the Earth be enough to destroy the International Space Station? Probably not, but it could do some damage.

Debate Rages Over Whether Single Speeding Cheeto Could Destroy Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

A new human stem cell derived from fat cells seems to be capable of adapting to and repairing damage in many parts of the body.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Reprogram Fat Cells to Repair Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

As scientists put more and more resources into studying wormholes, it may become possible to find and even travel through them.

Astrophysicist Says It’s Likely We Can Travel Through Wormholes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists in Ohio found two new strains of the coronavirus, both of which seem to be more infectious than the dominant strain.

Two New Coronavirus Strains Emerge in the United States

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese researchers unveiled a prototype maglev train they say is both faster and more efficient than anything else out there.

Advanced Transport

China Unveils Maglev Train that Travels at Nearly 400 MPH

By Dan Robitzski

New simulations on galaxy development suggest that powerful magnetic fields present in the early universe could have stunted the Milky Way's growth.

Scientists: Magnetic Fields May Have Crushed Our Entire Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Looking back at 2020, COVID-19 was a leading cause of death in the United States. Coronavirus deaths outnumbered gun deaths, for instance, eight-to-one.

COVID-19 Killed Eight Times More Americans Than Guns in 2020

By Dan Robitzski

The activist group DC Marijuana Justice plans to hands out free bags of weed to people who get the coronavirus vaccine in Washington D.C.

Activists Plan to Hand Out Free Weed at DC Vaccination Sites

By Dan Robitzski

Months after flaws with an internet-connected chastity cage were first revealed, a hacker seized control and demanded a Bitcoin ransom.

Internet Of Things

Hacker Seizes Control of Internet-Enabled Chastity Cages

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute say that it might be impossible to rein in superintelligent AI that decides to turn on humanity.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists: It’d Be Impossible to Control Superintelligent AI

By Dan Robitzski

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory

New Technique Uses Entire Milky Way as a Giant Observatory

By Dan Robitzski

Science & Energy

An Unusual Merger Seems to Have Created a New Type of Star

By Dan Robitzski

Because of bad weather here on Earth, a SpaceX Dragon that was supposed to head home from the International Space Station is hanging out in orbit.

Science & Energy

Bad Weather Leaves SpaceX Dragon Stuck at Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

An online database just released all of the UFO-related records ever declassified by the CIA for anyone to download and peruse.

The CIA’s Declassified UFO Documents Are Now All Available Online

By Dan Robitzski

Before Parler, the far-right version of Twitter, went dark, a hacker and their followers scraped user data from the raid on the U.S. Capitol.

The Pro-Trump Twitter Alternative Parler Has Gone Offline

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is developing night-vision goggles that look just like glasses instead of the bulky, binocular-like tech that currently exists.

DARPA Working on Night-Vision Goggles the Size of Normal Glasses

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk became the wealthiest person in the world on Thursday. Here are some ideas for what he could do with his riches.

5 Things Elon Musk Could Do Now That He’s the World’s Richest Person

By Dan Robitzski

After being arrested in late 2019 for attempting to take biological samples with him to China, cancer researcher Zaosong Zheng was sentenced to time served.

Cancer Researcher Sentenced for Stealing Biological Samples

By Dan Robitzski

Climate change could hit cities particularly hard in the future, heating them up several degrees hotter than the global average.

Climate Change Will Roast Cities More Than Anywhere Else

By Dan Robitzski

4,000 Americans were killed by COVID-19 on Thursday, a new national record that will probably be broken yet again very soon.

More Than 4,000 Americans Died From COVID Yesterday

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists developed a proof-of-concept system that could generate fuel for astronauts out of Mars' atmosphere.

Astronauts Could Fuel Their Return Trip Using Mars’ Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

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