More from Dan Robitzski (Page 16)

Medical schools can perpetrate outdated assumptions about race and health as part of doctors' education, and scientists have ideas on how to fix it.
Education

Scientists: Medical School Educations Still Shockingly Racist

By Dan Robitzski

If the planet reaches net-zeo carbon emissions soon, new research suggests rising temperatures could stabilize within a matter of decades.
Climate Change

New Analysis Shows Climate Could Stabilize in Several Decades

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre theory claims that dark matter might be made of tiny primordial black holes, which themselves might contain other universes.
Physics

Scientists Claim Black Holes Are Made of Collapsed Universes

By Dan Robitzski

After President Trump instigated and stoked an armed terrorist plot against the U.S. Capitol, Twitter locked his account.
Future Society

Trump Thrown Into Twitter Jail

By Dan Robitzski

In a test, the Department of Homeland Security found that new facial recognition can identify 96 percent of people despite their face masks.
Facial recognition

Government Facial Recognition Can Identify 96 Percent of Masked People

By Dan Robitzski

Recreating the impacts of psychedelics in neural networks could help scientists understand how these drugs cause hallucinations in human brains.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Want to Give Neural Networks Virtual Drugs

By Dan Robitzski

When World Health Organization investigators reached China for an investigation into the coronavirus' origins, they were denied entry.
Developments

China Denies Access to WHO Team Investigating COVID Origin

By Dan Robitzski

Climate expert Matthew Hoffman argues that despairing over the environment or calling climate change a lost cause will only make things worse.
Environment

Climate Expert: Don’t Give Up, We Can Still Fix the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

The more infectious strain of the coronavirus first identified in England could create a devastating new wave of the pandemic, experts warn.
Developments

Scientists Worried New COVID Strain Will Cause Devastating New Wave

By Dan Robitzski

Egyptian hospitals lost every coronavirus patient in their intensive care units when they ran out of the oxygen necessary for treatment.
Developments

Every COVID Patient in Egyptian ICU Dies When Oxygen Supply Fails

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA has weighed in on the coronavirus vaccine scheduling debate, telling doctors to stay the course and give patients both injections.
Viruses

FDA Begs Doctors to Follow Vaccine Instructions

By Dan Robitzski

International Space Station crewmembers dug into radishes that were the first non-leafy green veggies to be grown and consumed on the ISS.
NASA

NASA Let Astronauts Feast on Space-Grown Vegetables

By Dan Robitzski

Congress is expecting a progress report from the National Science Foundation on how to rebuild the collapsed radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory.
Science & Energy

Congress Is Investigating the Collapsed Arecibo Observatory

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is reportedly developing a device, codenamed "Brahms" that uses radar to track your breathing and monitor for sleep apnea.
Prosthetics and Devices

New Alexa Device Scans Your Body Using Radar

By Dan Robitzski

South Korea recorded more deaths than births for the first time last year, and the government is trying to pay new parents to reverse the trend.
Future Society

More South Koreans Died Than Were Born in 2020

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found that Irish soda bread can serve as a viable, low-cost alternative for cell scaffolding in the lab.
Biology

Scientists Are Using Bread as a Scaffold for Human Cells

By Dan Robitzski

The logic behind simulation theory, or the idea that we live in a virtual reality, doesn't really make sense, according to mathemetician Jonathan Bartlett.
Future Society

Mathematician: Here’s Why the Simulation Theory Is Stupid

By Dan Robitzski

Several counties in Florida are scheduling coronavirus vaccinations through Eventbrite, raising multiple issues with the system.
Viruses

Florida Is Doling out Coronavirus Vaccines Over Eventbrite

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says the company will try to catch a Super Heavy booster rocket with a launch tower so it doesn't need to rely entirely on its legs.
Starship

SpaceX Wants to Catch Starship Booster With Its Own Launch Tower

By Dan Robitzski

Vybe Together, an app that coordinated secret parties during the pandemic, just got removed from the Apple app store after an onslaught of criticism.
Developments

Apple Takes Down App That Coordinated Maskless Parties

By Dan Robitzski

UK Military Unveils Tiny Spy Drones That Can Travel Over a Mile
Drones

UK Military Unveils Tiny Spy Drones That Can Travel Over a Mile

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian oil company Gazpromneft built a Bitcoin mining facility in its Siberian oil field to make use of energy from excess gases.
Energy

Russian Oil Company Builds Bitcoin Farm in Siberia

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to electrodes implanted in his brain, a man was able to feed himself with two robotic arms, controlling them with nothing more than his thoughts.
RX and Medicine

Watch a Quadriplegic Man Feed Himself With Two Bionic Arms

By Dan Robitzski

As patients in Los Angeles get the coronavirus vaccine, they can also get digital proof of their inoculation that could work like an "immunity passport."
Viruses

LA Plans to Issue Digital “Passports” With Coronavirus Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

A man is suing NJ police after he was wrongfully arrested and imprisoned because of flawed, since-banned facial recognition AI.
Facial recognition

Lawsuit Claims Facial Recognition AI Sent the Wrong Man to Jail

By Dan Robitzski

MIT artist-in-residence Deimut Strebe mirrored COVID-19's spread across the U.S. with an unsettling slime mold experiment. Here, she explains why.
Science & Energy

An MIT Artist Used Slime Mold to Simulate COVID Spread

By Dan Robitzski

A German court ordered Tesla to stop clearing the forest where it wants to build its Gigafactory because a protected lizard species is hibernating there.
Tesla

Hibernating Lizards Are Blocking Tesla’s Plans for a Berlin Gigafactory

By Dan Robitzski

TikTokers have been picking up Simulation Theory over the last few weeks, posting "glitches in the Matrix" to demonstrate that our world isn't real.
Future Society

Kids on TikTok Are Convinced We’re Living in a Simulation

By Dan Robitzski

An internal review process at Google reframes research on controversial AI technology in a "positive tone," censoring accurate discussions on its dangers.
Google

Google Reportedly Forcing Its Researchers to Say Its Tech Is Good

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok parent company ByteDance is assembling a team of AI experts that it hopes will build AI to develop new pharmaceuticals.
RX and Medicine

TikTok Parent Company Says It’ll Develop Drugs Using AI

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists caught octopuses occasionally punching nearby fish on film. Sometimes its to keep them in line during a hunt, other times it just seems spiteful.
Biology

Scientists Say That “Spiteful” Octopuses Punch Fish When They’re Angry

By Dan Robitzski

A new nanomaterial biosensor can spot coronavirus antibodies — and track whether the vaccine is working — in ten seconds.
Viruses

Nanomaterial System Detects Coronavirus Antibodies In Just Seconds

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Oxford scientists found a way to take carbon dioxide and turn it back into jet fuel, potentially cleaning up the aviation industry.
Climate Change

Oxford Scientists Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Jet Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

A close look at an asteroid fragment revealed crystals that likely formed on an ancient, long-gone dwarf planet-sized object.
Solar Power

Scientists Say There Was a Huge, Mysterious Object in the Early Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos director general Dmitry Rogozin is furious that the U.S. government imposed sanctions on the company that makes the Soyuz rocket.
Off-World

Russian Space Chief Accuses US of Sabotaging Russian Space Program

By Dan Robitzski

The massive, almost-certainly-Russian hack on the U.S. fedearl government compromised high-level networks used by the Treasury Department.
Science & Energy

Hackers Stole Top Officials’ Emails, Government Admits

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, Biden received the first of two shots that make up the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. He was inoculated on camera to boost public trust in the shot.
Viruses

Joe Biden Gets COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A physics student used a scanning tunneling microscope to built a "Christmas tree" that's barely thicker than a DNA strand.
Science & Energy

World’s Tiniest “Christmas Tree” Is Barely Thicker Than a DNA Strand

By Dan Robitzski

The head of Russia's space program, Dmitry Rogozin, took a jab at SpaceX, implying that the U.S.-based company couldn't handle the work done by Roscosmos.
SpaceX

Russia’s Space Chief Just Took Yet Another Swing at SpaceX

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

Scientists: Genetically Modified Trees Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos is prepared to ship additional oxygen supplies to the International Space Station, which continues to slowly leak oxygen.
Science & Energy

New Leak May Force Russia to Ship Oxygen to Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

A massive hack on U.S. infrastructure and federal agencies, likely perpetrated by Russia, targeted nuclear weapon facilities.
Science & Energy

Hackers Reportedly Targeted US Nuclear Weapons Facilities

By Dan Robitzski

COVID-19 is on track to become the leading cause of death in the U.S., beating the daily death tolls for cancer and heart disease combined.
Viruses

Daily Coronavirus Deaths Top Heart Disease and Cancer Combined

By Dan Robitzski

NASA announced that Reid Wiseman would be its 17th Chief Astronaut. He previously logged lots of time in space and served as deputy Chief Astronaut.
NASA

NASA Names Its New Chief Astronaut

By Dan Robitzski

Once the FDA approved a coronavirus vaccine, almost-certainly-fake listings for vaccines on the black market vastly increased in number.
Viruses

FDA Vaccine Approval Created a Spike in Black Market Listings

By Dan Robitzski

Fume events, or instances where dangerous chemicals make it into an airplane's air supply, are disturbingly common. Yet the problem is often ignored.
Advanced Transport

Faulty Planes Reportedly Poisoned Passengers on Hundreds of Flights

By Dan Robitzski

A satellite company called Capella Space just launched its platform for SAR imaging satellites that can peer through clouds and even some buildings.
Off-World

A New Satellite Can Peer Inside Some Buildings, Day or Night

By Dan Robitzski

President-elect Joe Biden reportedly plans to nominate Michael Regan as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. It would be his third time at the EPA.
Environment

Biden’s EPA Pick Seems to Actually Care About the Environment

By Dan Robitzski

Ian McKellen says he feels "euphoric" after getting a COVID-19 vaccine, and he urges everyone who can to get vaccinated as well.
Viruses

Ian McKellen Says He Feels “Euphoric” After Taking COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

In exchange for technical support from Canada, NASA will fly a Canadian astronaut to lunar orbit, making them the first non-American to reach the Moon.
Moon

NASA Says It Will Fly a Canadian to the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

NASA scientists modified a Boston Dynamics Spot robot that they say could explore Mars to find a suitable location for a human outpost.
Boston Dynamics

NASA Suggests Sending Boston Dynamics Robodog to Mars

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Trump signed SPD-6 which calls for off-world nuclear reactors and nuclear propulsion systems for spacecraft.
Off-World

Trump Signs Directive Calling for Nuclear Reactors in Space

By Dan Robitzski

Hospitals in India report hundreds of new cases caused by a mysterious, yet-unidentified illness from over the past weekend.
Developments

There’s a Mysterious New Disease Outbreak in India

By Dan Robitzski

In a leaked company meeting, Facebook showed off recent progress on the brain-reading technology its been developing for years.
Devices

Leaked Meeting: Facebook Working on Device to Read Your Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists traced a radio signal back to a hot Jupiter exoplanet. If confirmed, it could help the hunt for habitable worlds.
Science & Energy

Cornell Scientists Find Radio Signal Coming From an Exoplanet

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates, Amazon, and the U.K. government put millions into the hydrogen-powered plane startup ZeroAvia, which had a successful test flight in September.
Advanced Transport

Bill Gates Invests in Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Startup

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors who perform surgery on their birthday seem to lose more patients than on any other day, according to a new study on emergency operations.
RX and Medicine

Surgeons Who Operate on Their Birthday Appear to Kill Way More Patients

By Dan Robitzski

After studying hundreds of marsquakes, data from NASA's InSight rover suggests that the crust of Mars is layered like a three-tiered cake.
Science & Energy

Mars’ Crust Structure Is Like a Layer Cake, NASA Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

At a parade and photo-op in Georgia, a Santa impersonator who tested positive for the coronavirus may have exposed up to 50 kids.
Developments

Santa Impersonator Exposes Throngs of Children to COVID

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just granted emergency approval to the first over-the-counter coronavirus test, making tests vastly more accessible in the U.S.
Viruses

FDA Approves Over-The-Counter Coronavirus Test

By Dan Robitzski

Next year, Walmart plans to take human drivers out of its delivery trucks on a number of routes, putting more faith into its many autonomous truck projects.
Advanced Transport

Walmart Plans to Start Ditching Human Delivery Drivers Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

A system that can turn pee into drinking water on the International Space Station could also improve access to clean water on Earth.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Pee-Drinking Machine Could Save Lives

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just approved a gene-hacked pig that was specifically engineered to not produce the allergen alpha-gal for human consumption.
Gene Editing

FDA Approves Gene-Hacked Pigs for Human Consumption

By Dan Robitzski

A pair of physicists suggests that treating the Sun like a giant gravitational lens would give us a clear view of distant exoplanets.
Physics

Giant Telescope Could Spot Individual Continents on Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski