More from Dan Robitzski (Page 17)

Scientists reconstructed a dinosaur's brain from scans of well-preserved fossils, learning they had been wrong about how the species lived in the process.
Brain

Scientists Digitally Reconstruct Dinosaur Brain

By Dan Robitzski

After being trained on the very bizarre news of the year 2020, GPT-3 had some particularly unusual guesses for what's coming next.
Artificial Intelligence

A Powerful AI Generated Some Predictions for the Future and They’re Quite Outrageous

By Dan Robitzski

European Space Agency scientists put out a time-lapse video showing how the Milky Way galaxy will evolve over 400,00 years.
Science & Energy

Dazzling Video Shows How Milky Way Will Evolve Over 400,000 Years

By Dan Robitzski

The virst COVID-19 vaccines are being distributed in the U.S. Now, Fauci says he's afraid too many people won't want to get it.
Viruses

Fauci Says That His Greatest Fear Is Anti-Vaxxers

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronomer Alan Stern tells Discover Magazine that the discovery of liquid oceans on other worlds is among the "most profound discoveries" in space.
Science & Energy

A NASA Scientist Heralds “One of the Most Profound Discoveries” of the Space Age

By Dan Robitzski

Walt Disney World, instead of enforcing its own mask requirements, is merely editing digital masks onto visitors' photos.
Future Society

Disney World Seems to be Editing Masks Into Visitors’ Photos

By Dan Robitzski

Many countries around the world report record-breaking daily death counts from the coronavirus, and experts predict a dangerous winter ahead.
Developments

So Many People Are Dying From COVID Every Day That It Almost Defies Comprehension

By Dan Robitzski

Space agencies around the world are collaborating to make high-security facilities to study asteroids and Mars rocks for signs of life.
Science & Energy

Space Agencies Acknowledge That Asteroids Could Host Life

By Dan Robitzski

Blocking a single protein called 15-PGDH made old mice much stronger and healthier, as though they had been made younger as a result.
RX and Medicine

Blocking a Single Protein Makes Aging Mice Way Stronger and Healthier

By Dan Robitzski

Scienitsts decided to bring spiders to the International Space Station to find out how important gravity was for their webs.
Off-World

Whose Brilliant Idea Was It to Bring Spiders to the Space Station?

By Dan Robitzski

Finland's Olkiluoto nuclear power plant had a close call Thursday, initiating an emergency shutdown after one of its reactors leaked.
Nuclear Fusion

There Was a Close Call at a Nuclear Power Plant Today

By Dan Robitzski

A French military ethics committee just approved the military's plan to begin developing supersoldiers and keep pace with other nations already doing so.
Prosthetics and Devices

France Says It’s Working on Bionic Supersoldiers Because Everybody Else Is Doing It

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental robot pill grows needles made of sugar when swallowed and inject medications — from inside someone's intestine.
RX and Medicine

This “Pill” Sprouts Needles to Inject Medicine Inside Your Body

By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical distributor AvKare issued a recall for trazodone and sildenafil after the two were mixed together in the same bottles.
RX and Medicine

Packaging Error Mixes Up Antidepressant and Erectile Drugs

By Dan Robitzski

AstraZeneca didn't tell the FDA it halted its coronavirus vaccine trial after a volunteer got sick. The ommission could hurt the company's credibility.
Viruses

AstraZeneca Keeps Bungling Stuff About Its Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

YouTubers painted a car with Musou Black, a paint that absorbs 99.4 percent of light, leaving the vehicle looking more like a silhouette than an object.
Advanced Transport

This Super-Black Car Is So Dark That It Looks Like a Silhouette

By Dan Robitzski

An artificial chicken venture called the Chicken seems to have nailed the flavor and texture of a fried chicken sandwich using lab-grown cells.
Science & Energy

Lab-Grown Chicken Sandwich Tastes Like Real Thing, Says Person Who Ate It

By Dan Robitzski

The mysterious outbreak that's causing epilepsy-like symptoms in southeast India continues to grow, and experts have no idea what's causing it.
Developments

Mysterious, Epilepsy-Like Outbreak Still Spreading in India

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this week, Google's DeepMind AI researchers broke the record for predicting how proteins will assemble. Scientists in the field remain unimpressed.
Google

Scientists Unimpressed by Google’s Protein Folding Algorithm

By Dan Robitzski

An ultrahot gas giant that's even darker than asphalt is going to crash into its star significantly sooner than scientists thought.
Science & Energy

A Super-Black Planet Is About to Literally Crash Into Its Star

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese space agency instructed part of the Chang'e-5 spacecraft to crash back into the Moon after its job was done so it wouldn't become space junk.
Science & Energy

China Crashed Spacecraft Into the Moon so It Wouldn’t Become Space Junk

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just published a detailed report on the upcoming Artemis Moon missions, including information on the planned lunar base camp.
Moon

NASA Releases Detailed Plan for 2024 Moon Base Camp

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, police raided the home of data scientist and whistleblower Rebekah Jones, who had refused to manipulate data for the state Health Department.
Future Society

Police Raid Home of COVID-19 Whistleblower

By Dan Robitzski

A company called Ghost Robotics is building dog-like robots explicitly for military use. Soon, they'll guard an Air Force base in Florida.
Robot Dogs

Oh No: This Company Is Building Robodogs Specifically for Combat

By Dan Robitzski

The Smellicopter, a small autonomous drone that tracks down scents, relies on the biological machinery of a live moth antenna.
Drones

Tiny Cyborg Drone Navigates Using Surgically Removed Moth Antenna

By Dan Robitzski

Back in July, the White House turned down an offer to buy hundreds of millions of extra doses of Pfizer's vaccine for COVID-19.
Viruses

Trump Turned Down Opportunity to Buy 500M Doses of COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government plans to invest in local prefectures that develop new matchmaking AI to help singles in the area find love.
Artificial Intelligence

Japan’s Government Is Using AI to Set Up Lonely Singles on Dates

By Dan Robitzski

More and more people were binge drinking more often in mid-April than they were in mid-March, thanks specifically to the pandemic.
Viruses

Binge Drinking Got Way Worse During the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Aptera Motors says its upcoming electric car may never need to be plugged in thanks to solar panels that give it 45 miles of extra range every day.
Advanced Transport

Startup Says Solar-Powered Electric Car Never Needs to Charge

By Dan Robitzski

The federal government says it can dole out 40 million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine — enough for 20 million people — this month. Experts say probably not.
Viruses

Experts Say Trump Promise For 20M December Vaccinations is Unrealistic

By Dan Robitzski

Living in “Third Person View” With VR and a Backpack-Mounted Camera
Virtual Reality

Living in “Third Person View” With VR and a Backpack-Mounted Camera

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is paying startups for any Moon dust they collect on missions scheduled for the next few years, but the payment is largely symbolic.
Moon

NASA Will Pay This Startup $1 to Collect Moon Dust. Wait, What?

By Dan Robitzski

China plans to expand its weather modification system to cover 5.5 million square miles. Neighboring India is worried it could become a weapon.
Environment

China Is Rolling Out an Enormous “Weather Modification” System

By Dan Robitzski

John Ratcliffe, the U.S. national intelligence cirector, wrote in an op-ed that China experimented on military members to try and create supersoldiers.
Genetics

US Official Claims China Is Testing Biologically Enhanced Supersoldiers

By Dan Robitzski

Former U.S. Presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama agreed to take the COVID-19 vaccine in public to bolster confidence that it's safe.
Viruses

Obama, Clinton, and Bush Say They’ll All Take COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, Google fired a prominent AI ethicist at the company who had spoken out about diversity and censorship within the company.
Google

Google Ousts Top AI Ethicist

By Dan Robitzski

By reversing molecular changes that happen naturally with age, a team of scientists restored vision to blind mice that they made more genetically youthful.
Gene Editing

Harvard Scientists Claim to Reverse Mouse Aging at Cellular Level

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency compiled the most detailed map of the Milky Way galaxy in history, plotting the location and course of nearly 2 billion stars.
Science & Energy

This Is the Most Detailed Map of the Milky Way in History

By Dan Robitzski

INTERPOL warns that organized crime groups will likely try to hoard COVID-19 vaccines or sell their own fraudulent versions.
Viruses

INTERPOL: COVID Vaccine Will Be “Liquid Gold” to Organized Crime

By Dan Robitzski

Ian Beer, a professional hacker at Google, found an exploit that lets him completely take over any nearby iPhone with little more than a WiFi antenna.
Science & Energy

Horrifying Hack Takes Over iPhones Just by Pointing an Antenna at Them

By Dan Robitzski

Billions of years from now, scientists predict that the Sun's hold on planets will wane and other stars will steal them out of the solar system.
Solar Power

Eventually, Other Stars Will Steal our Solar System’s Planets

By Dan Robitzski

China's robotic Chang'e-5 space probe successfully gathered up lunar samples and is poised to be the first successful lunar retrieval mission since 1976.
Science & Energy

Chinese Robot Mission Successfully Collects Moon Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

AI tech composed a Britney Spears song in the style of Frank Sinatra. It was struck down by copyright claims, launching an unprecedented legal case.
Future Society

A Bot Made Frank Sinatra Cover Britney Spears. YouTube Removed It Over Copyright Claims.

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm called RoboGrammer can design robot bodies that are optimized for specific tasks or crossing specific terrain.
Artificial Intelligence

MIT Engineers Built an AI That Design Its Own Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A volunteer in the AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine trial alleges that he suffered severe neurological side effects, a claim that the researchers deny.
Viruses

Woman Claims Husband Got Neurological Damage From COVID Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A startup called NewRocket developed a gel-like rocket fuel that's less toxic and more easily controlled than existing fuels.
Science & Energy

New Rocket Engine Could Use Slimy Gel as Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

China's Chang'e-5 spacecraft successfully landed on the Moon, where it's expected to bring the first lunar samples back to earth in almost 50 years.
Science & Energy

China Lands on Moon Before Returning to Earth With Lunar Rocks

By Dan Robitzski

Google's DeepMind AI team built an algorithm called AlphaFold 2 that can solved the protein folding problem with better accuracy than any other team.
Google

Google AI Solves Longstanding, Near-Impossible Biology Problem

By Dan Robitzski

Building fiber optic cables with a hollow, air-filled core could finally address an issue that's plagued the tech for 50 years.
Science & Energy

We Can Improve Fiber Optics by Filling Them With Air

By Dan Robitzski

A team of space law experts argues that we need strong international accords to prevent military conflicts either in or fought over space.
Off-World

Here’s How We Could Avert Off-Planet Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

The European Union expects to meet two of its three 2020 climate goals, setting the stage for even more ambitious projects in the future.
Climate Change

It Looks Like Europe Will Hit Two of its Three 2020 Climate Goals

By Dan Robitzski

With the recent discovery of phosphorus, scientists have found all six elements on a list of crucial ingredients for life on various comets.
Biology

Comets Can Carry the Six Most Important Elements for Life on Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Moderna plans to submit its COVID-19 vaccine to the FDA on Monday. The company's CMO says the data is so good he was moved to tears.
Viruses

Pharma Exec Cried When He Saw COVID-19 Vaccine Results

By Dan Robitzski

Vape Lung, or EVALI, never actually went away. The CDC stopped tracking cases in February, but a small number continue to pop up.
Developments

Remember Vape Lung? It’s Still Happening.

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scienists were able to directly observe that our sun does the same kind of nuclear fusion expected from much heavier stars.
Nuclear Fusion

Scientists Decipher the Sun’s Nuclear Fusion for the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army is trying to develop technology that could read a soldier's thoughts, allowing them to communicate silently.
Neuroscience and Brain

The US Army Is Developing Tech That Reads Soldiers’ Minds

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a gene that allows coral to survive hot water, and they want to gene-hack it into reefs to protect against climate change.
Climate Change

Scientists Want to Gene-Hack Coral Reefs to Survive Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

The military confirmed that it buys people's location data from apps, especially those targeting the Muslim community, and uses it operationally.
Military

The Military Is Buying People’s Location Data From Popular Phone Apps

By Dan Robitzski

Officials in the U.K. may soon put out a call for everyone to stop sending useless emails, citing the toll that they take on the environment.
Climate Change

UK Officials: Useless Emails Are Killing the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built miniature living factories where photosynthetic algae produce viable hydrogen, all inside a droplet of water.
Energy

Scientists Create Living Factories That Churn Out Hydrogen Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

Operation Warp Speed officials just announced that the first coronavirus vaccines would be distributed based on state population rather than need.
Viruses

Here’s How the First Coronavirus Vaccines Will Be Distributed

By Dan Robitzski

An amateur astronomer may have found where the elusive Wow! Signal came from, tracing it back to a sun-like star in Sagittarius.
Space

Strongest-Ever Candidate For Alien Message Came From Sun-Like Star, Researcher Says

By Dan Robitzski

A new class-action lawsuit alleges that Tesla refused to fix and even covered up a safety issue with Model X and Model S suspensions.
Tesla

Tesla Accused of Covering Up Safety Issues in Class Action Lawsuit

By Dan Robitzski

This past weekend, 3 million Americans passed through an airport, flying in the face of CDC and expert warnings to limit travel.
Developments

If You’re Traveling For Thanksgiving, You’re an Absolutely Terrible Person

By Dan Robitzski