More from Dan Robitzski (Page 19)

Scientists built a low-cost system that can be mounted on a standard camera and make infrared light visible to the human eye.
Physics

Scientists Found a Way to Make Infrared Light Visible to Humans

By Dan Robitzski

The Trump administration has now formally pulled the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement, but Biden says he'll rejoin on day one if elected.
Climate Change

Biden Says He’ll Rejoin Paris Climate Accord on First Day of Presidency

By Dan Robitzski

After NASA criticized the satellite startup AST & Science for its plans to launch a fleet of telecom satellites, AST's founder fights back.
Science & Energy

The Satellite Startup That NASA Criticized Is Firing Back

By Dan Robitzski

NASA commissioned Nokia to build a 4G network on the Moon, but doing so could spell doom for radio astronomers trying to filter out all the noise.
Science & Energy

That 4G Network on the Moon Could Ruin Astronomy

By Dan Robitzski

There's a mysterious asteroid stuck in Mars' gravitational pull, and astronomers suspect it might be the Moon's long-lost twin.
Science & Energy

A Stolen Chunk of Earth’s Moon Seems to Be Orbiting Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force opened a new research lab that it says will enable it to build new resilient, high-strain spacecraft and satellites.
Military

Air Force Opens New Lab for Spacecraft Materials

By Dan Robitzski

An extremophile bacteria survived a year in space. Scientists uncovered how it pulled off the feat, suggesting microbes could travel among planets.
Science & Energy

New Research Shows How a Microbe Could Survive Journey Between Planets

By Dan Robitzski

The "Osampo Kanojo" is meant to recreate the look, feel, sound, and smell of talking a stroll while holding hands with your partner.
Robotics

Scientists in Japan Build Robot to Hold Hands With Lonely People

By Dan Robitzski

After a years-long waiting period, President Donald Trump's ill-advised decision to leave the Paris climate agreement took effect Tuesday.
Climate Change

US Formally Ditches Paris Climate Agreement

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers can't definitively rule out the chance that the "God of Chaos" asteroid Apophis crashes into Earth when it returns in 2068.
Science & Energy

There’s a Chance This Giant Asteroid Will Smash Earth in 2068

By Dan Robitzski

Senior employees at the security camera company Verkada used the company's own facial recognition to sexually harass their coworkers.
Future Society

Men at Facial Recognition Startup Used Its Own Tech to Sexually Harass Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough
Developments

MIT Algorithm Detects COVID-19 in the Sound of Your Cough

By Dan Robitzski

A new Amazon patent describes how trolls and toxic gamers could be sequestered into their own matches full of other trolls.
Science & Energy

Amazon Patent Makes the Most Horrible Gamers Play With Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

New NASA-led research calculated that on average, about one in two Sun-like stars in the Milky Way have exoplanets in their habitable zones.
Science & Energy

NASA: Half the Sun-like Stars in our Galaxy Have Potentially-Habitable Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Failing to reach the Paris agreement's goals and heating Earth by two degrees Celsius could trigger the release of 230 billion tons of carbon from the soil.
Climate Change

Our Soil is Poised To Release Billions of Tons of Carbon

By Dan Robitzski

New analysis of ancient Martian meteorites adds 400 million years to our historical knowledge of water on the surface of Mars.
Science & Energy

Martian Meteorites Show Red Planet Had Water Billions of Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

The Starlink "Better Than Nothing Beta" is giving some rural participants better internet connectivity than the vast majority of the U.S.
Space

Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US

By Dan Robitzski

The hologram strat up PORTL Hologram made a doorway-sized device that can transmit holograms as new, immersive form of video calls.
Virtual Reality

This “Portal” Lets You Beam a Hologram of Yourself Into Video Calls

By Dan Robitzski

A british company is manufacturing diamonds out of atmospheric CO2 and rainwater in an attempt to reverse environmental damage.
Science & Energy

This Guy Is Creating Actual Diamonds From Reclaimed CO2

By Dan Robitzski

For her birthday, Kanye West bought Kim Kardashian a hologram of her dead dad that says he's proud of her and calls Kanye a genius.
Virtual Reality

Kanye Bought Kim Kardashian a Hologram of her Dead Dad That Says He’s Proud of Her

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface doesn't actually touch the brain or require open-skull surgery. Rather, it snakes through the jugular vein and listens in.
Neuroscience and Brain

New Brain-Computer Interface Doesn’t Even Need to Touch the Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Virgin Hyperloop has made the reasonable decision to learn what 600 MPH travel does to the brain before transporting passengers at 600 MPH.
Brain

Virgin Hyperloop Wonders: What Does 600 MPH Travel Do to the Brain?

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers pilfered $2.3 million from Trumps re-election campaign by sending it fake invoices supposedly from vendors the Wisconsin GOP worked with.
Science & Energy

Hackers Siphoned $2.3 Million From Trump’s Campaign

By Dan Robitzski

A series of visualizations show how the dangers of indoor COVID-19 transmission can be mitigated but not eliminated with masks and ventilation.
Viruses

Visualization Shows Likelihood of COVID-19 Spread in Bars, Homes, Classrooms

By Dan Robitzski

Images taken from satellites reveal that a massive amount of electricity is being wasted just to illuminate cities overnight.
Energy

City Uses Satellite to Measure Wasted Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy is spinning extremely slowly compared to others.
Physics

Our Galaxy’s Central Black Hole Seems to Be Chilling Out for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found some unusual activity coming from a Centaur, or a comet-liked planetary object that orbits deep in our solar system.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Found Unusual Activity on a “Centaur” Planetary Object

By Dan Robitzski

Contrary to what Trump has been insisting for the whole pandemic, the surge in new coronavirus cases has nothing to do with how many tests are administered.
Developments

Trump’s Head of COVID Testing Says Trump Is Totally Wrong About COVID Testing

By Dan Robitzski

President Trump's re-election campaign website was temporarily defaced by hackers accusing him of spreading fake news and interfering in the 2020 election.
Science & Energy

Trump’s Campaign Site Got Hacked for Spreading “Fake News”

By Dan Robitzski

A new website uses a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to turn a picture of anyone's face into a zombie, just in time for Halloween.
Artificial Intelligence

This Neural Network Turns You Into a Zombie

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered a massive new coral reef lurking near Australia's Great Barrier Reef for the first time in over 120 years.
Environment

Scientists Discover Huge, Unknown Coral Reef

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that the Arctic is already releasing mass amounts of methane into the air and water, potentially signalling serious climate impacts.
Climate Change

Ah Crap: The Arctic Is Releasing a Ton of New Greenhouse Gas

By Dan Robitzski

A molecular geneticist and quantum biologist argues that our entire conscious experience comes from a field of wayward electromagnetic waves in our brain.
Energy

New Research Claims That Consciousness Itself Is an Energy Field

By Dan Robitzski

As the Voyager space probes travel farther outside our solar system, they're passing through increasingly dense regions of interstellar space.
Solar Power

New Voyager Readings: Space Is Much Denser Outside Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

New high-resolution brain scans enabled doctors to discover a new organ hiding in the human skull: a fourth pair of salivary glands.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Claim to Discover New Organ in Human Skull

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of activists are training new facial recognition algorithms to ID cops who hide their names while cracking down on protests.
Facial recognition

Activists Build Facial Recognition to ID Cops Who Hide Their Badges

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers found an unusual, ancient supermassive black hole that threatens our understanding of the history of the universe.
Physics

Scientists Found an Ultra-Rare Black Hole From Almost 12 Billion Years Ago

By Dan Robitzski

GPT-3, an artificial intelligence algorithm, is capable of writing shockingly-coherent text. But that mean it's useful, argues Facebook AI head Yann LeCun.
Artificial Intelligence

The “Godfather of AI” Just Trashed GPT-3

By Dan Robitzski

A "pristine" meteorite that landed in 2018 and was studied before it could be contaminated was chock-full of extraterrestrial organic compounds.
Science & Energy

Scientists: 2018 Michigan Meteorite Was Filled With Organic Compounds

By Dan Robitzski

NASA and the ESA have formally partnered up to develop the Gateway space station that will orbit the Moon as part of the Artemis program.
Moon

NASA and Europe Officially Sign Deal to Build Orbital Moon Base

By Dan Robitzski

Trump's Department of Energy has been blocking research on the benefits of renewable energy sources from seeing the light of day.
Studies

The White House Got Caught Burying Studies About Renewable Energy

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists took the closest look yet at Psyche, a massive asteroid orbiting our Sun that's thought to be a planetary core that got destroyed.
Mars

New Images Show Leftover Planetary Core Floating Between Mars and Jupiter

By Dan Robitzski

Johns Hopkins University political scientist Daniel Deudney warns that space exploration could give rise to a totalitarian empire — and human extinction.
Off-World

Johns Hopkins Professor Warns of Totalitarian Military Space Empire

By Dan Robitzski

A third wave of COVID-19 cases — shaping up to be the worst one yet — is hitting the U.S., and the federal government is throwing in the towel.
Developments

A Third Wave of COVID-19 Is Crashing Over the United States Right Now

By Dan Robitzski

A new test made out of a sheet of graphene could make kidney disease antibodiy diagnostics vastly more accessible and affordable.
Prosthetics and Devices

Doctors Use Graphene to Invent Cheap, Easy Test for Kidney Disease

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists discovered what may be the most Earth-like exoplanet yet, though it's too far away to find out for sure.
Science & Energy

Finally, Scientists Find an Earth-Sized Exoplanet in Its Star’s Habitable Zone

By Dan Robitzski

Oreo launched a bizarre stunt where it built a doomsday vault to protect its cookies from an asteroid that doesn't pose a threat to Earth at all.
Future Society

Oreo Built a Doomsday Vault to Protect Its Cookies From a Harmless Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

After Tesla began rolling out an assistive driving system it calls "Full Self-Driving," federal regulators have started to keep close watch.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Federal Regulators Are Keeping a Close Watch on Tesla’s “Self-Driving” Beta Test

By Dan Robitzski

So far, the hunt for extraterrestrial life hasn't succeeded. But thankfully, there are loads of star systems with a clear view of us instead.
Off-World

Aliens in These Star Systems Could See Life on Earth, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered how our brains process 3D images — then discovered that neural networks happen to do it the same way.
Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Discover Surprising Similarity Between Neural Networks and Human Brain

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are preparing to use an ultra-precise atomic clock to hunt oscillations of dark matter several orders of magnitude smaller than ever before.
Physics

Ultra-Precise Atomic Clocks May Be Able to Detect Oscillations of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

New research links Parkinson's Disease dementia to the activity of a specific hormone found in our guts, perhaps leading to new treatments or diagnostics.
Neuroscience and Brain

Doctors Link Parkinson’s to a Hormone in Your Gut

By Dan Robitzski

In case it didn't cause enough problems, fracking can also be devastating for the mental health of people who live nearby.
Mental Health

Sociologist: Fracking is a Mental Health Disaster

By Dan Robitzski

A rare neurodegenerative disease called Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is becoming more common in Japan as its population ages.
Neuroscience and Brain

As Japan’s Population Ages, a Rare Brain-Eating Disease Is Becoming More Common

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered an ancient, long-gone tectonic plate that they say explains the volcanoes around the northern Pacific.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Lost” Tectonic Plate With Ominous Name

By Dan Robitzski

A search for potential extraterrestrial life on Venus came back with nothing, suggesting variability on the planet or that the first disovery was an error.
Science & Energy

Researchers: Claim of Life Molecules on Venus May Have Been an Error

By Dan Robitzski

Engineer Alexandre Milovanoff argues that electric cars won't stop climate change becuase private cars are inherently a problem.
Climate Change

Researcher: Electric Cars Aren’t the Answer to Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Video footage of GM's driverless cars shows some troubling behavior as well as multiple near-accidents on public streets.
Advanced Transport

Videos of GM’s Driverless Cars Show Several Near-Crashes

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist who won an Ig Nobel for his work on vibrating earthworms with a speaker say their research may be the key to brain-computer interface.
Science & Energy

Scientist: Please Stop Laughing at My Research About Placing Earthworms on Loudspeakers

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Eric Topol says that, based on existing numbers, the odds of catching COVID-19 a second time after recovering are about one in a million.
Developments

Famous Doctor: COVID-19 Reinfection Rates Are Actually “Very Reassuring”

By Dan Robitzski

A placebo-controlled study identified which impacts of microdosing LSD, from improved focus to anxiety, emerge at which dosages.
RX and Medicine

Study: Microdosing LSD Improves Mood and Cognition

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists build a superconducting material that works at room temperature, albeit under extremely high pressures.
Science & Energy

Scientists Finally Built a Room-Temperature Superconductor

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX just partnered with the U.S. military to build a rocket that could ship weapons anywhere in the world in one hour.
Military

SpaceX Is Building a Military Rocket to Ship Weapons Anywhere in the World

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station crew had a rough night. The same day they finally found an air leak, an oxygen system, toilet, and oven all broke down.
Off-World

The Space Station’s Toilet, Oven, and Air Supply All Broke Last Night

By Dan Robitzski