More from Dan Robitzski (Page 2)

Chinese authorities are about to test blood samples from Wuhan to investigate where and when the first COVID-19 outbreaks began.

Chinese Authorities Are Testing Thousands of Blood Samples From Wuhan

By Dan Robitzski

New Treatment Eradicated Tumors in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

New Treatment Eradicated Tumors in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients

By Dan Robitzski

NASA advisor Licianne Walkowicz announced that she's resigning over NASA's refusal to seriously consider renaming the James Webb Space Telescope.

NASA Adviser Resigns Over Giant Homophobic Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

A new robotic exoskeleton allows people with amputated legs to walk naturally by giving them a small boost as they take steps forward.

Health & Medicine

Watch a Robot Exoskeleton Help People Without Legs Walk Upright

By Dan Robitzski

What seemed to be an earthquake shook New Hampshire on Sunday, but experts say there's no evidence of a quake and they have no idea what really happened.

Residents Heard an Earth-Shattering Explosion and Experts Have No Idea What It Was

By Dan Robitzski

New research conducted on five Russian cosmonauts confirms that traveling to space damages the human brain. Now scientists want to know why.

Neuroscience and Brain

Russian Study Confirms That Space Travel Damages Your Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists detected a bizarre, randomly-shifting radio wave coming from the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and they have no idea what's causing it.

Science & Energy

Scientists Baffled by Radio Waves Coming From Our Own Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization gave the world's first malaria vaccine the green light, but it will be a challenge to deploy for the countries that need it.

RX and Medicine

Bureaucracy Could Keep Kids From Getting the Lifesaving New Malaria Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

Justin Bieber seemed to think the deepfake "deeptomcruise" was real, complimenting a guitar video as if it were the real actor playing.

Science & Energy

Justin Bieber Thinks Deepfake of Tom Cruise Is Real, Challenges It to Fight

By Dan Robitzski

Disappointed by Roscosmos' lack of results and failure to keep pace with SpaceX, Vladimir Putin is drastically cutting the space agency's budget.

A Disappointed Putin Is Slashing Funding for Russia’s Space Program

By Dan Robitzski

China seems to be powering a massive array of intercontinental ballistic missile silos with a huge new wind farm, so at least it's environmentally friendly.

Rejoice! China Is Powering Ballistic Missile Silos With Environmentally-Friendly Wind Turbines

By Dan Robitzski

The exoplanet where it rains molten iron every day has a calcium-rich atmosphere, meaning its even hotter than scientists thought.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Hell Planet Where It Rains Molten Iron Is Actually Worse Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

New images from NASA's Perseverance rover confirm that Jezero Crater used to be a massive lake supplied by an ancient river or glacier.

NASA Rover Confirms Gigantic Martian Crater Used To Be a Lake

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the funniest kids are also the smartest, based on how well middle schoolers could come up with captions for cartoons.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find That “Class Clowns” Are Actually the Smartest People in Class

By Dan Robitzski

Prominent astrophysicist Martin Rees criticizes global leadership for ignoring climate change, comparing them to frogs boiling in a pot.

Astrophysicist Warns That Humanity Will Boil Like a Frog in a Pot

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization says that the world's first malaria vaccine is finally ready for widespread use, and that it could save countless children.

RX and Medicine

The World’s First Malaria Vaccine Is Finally Ready for Rollout

By Dan Robitzski

The Netflix show "Squid Game" displayed someone's real phone number and now they get several thousand prank calls every day.

Netflix Shows Real Phone Number on Screen, Leading to “Prank-Call Apocalypse”

By Dan Robitzski

Jeffrey Smith, the man whose wife sued a hospital to force it to treat his COVID-19 with ivermectin and kicked off a messy legal fight, recently died.

Wife Sues Hospital to Treat Husband With Ivermectin, Then Husband Dies

By Dan Robitzski

The operators of the oil pipeline that spilled 144,000 gallons of crude oil off the coast of California waited for three hours before shutting it down.

Operators Let Oil Pipeline Gush Into Ocean for Hours Without Shutting It Off

By Dan Robitzski

NASA took two of the Being Starliner crewmembers and reassigned them to a SpaceX mission so they could actually get some flight experience.

NASA Quietly Signals That Boeing’s Spacecraft Is Going Nowhere

By Dan Robitzski

Russia passed a new law declaring that any independent reporters or media organizations that cover the space program will be designated "foreign agents."

Russia Bans Journalists From Covering Its Space Program

By Dan Robitzski

Healthcare provider UCHealth won't give kidney transplants to patients not vaccinated against COVID-19 because they're less likely to survive the disease.

Hospital Says It Won’t Do Organ Transplants on Unvaccinated People

By Dan Robitzski

Liu Cixin, author of the famous science-fiction novel "The Three-Body Problem," says he's not convinced humanity will unite against a global threat.

“Three-Body Problem” Author No Longer Sure Humankind Would Unite Against Hostile Aliens

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to create — and get a clear image of — a Wigner crystal, which is a lattice structure made entirely of electrons.

Scientists Create Material Made Entirely Out of Electrons

By Dan Robitzski

California governor Gavin Newsom declared a state of emergency and launched criminal investigations into the cause of a horrific oil spill.

California Declares State of Emergency, Opens Criminal Investigation Over Horrific Oil Spill

By Dan Robitzski

The German government just unveiled a facility that synthesizes jet fuel out of nothing but water and atmospheric carbon dioxide.

New Facility Creates Jet Fuel Out of Water

By Dan Robitzski

A brain implant that zaps a woman's brain 300 times per day treated her severe depression after medications failed for years.

Depressed Woman Gets Brain Implant, Says It Caused “Most Intensely Joyous Sensation”

By Dan Robitzski

Billionaire Larry Connor, the pilot for the upcoming all-civilian mission to the International Space Station, wants the world to know he's a regular dude.

Billionaire Flying SpaceX to Space Station Says He’s Just an Average Guy

By Dan Robitzski

A man recently showed up to the hospital to have over two pounds of metal nails, screws, and other miscellanea removed from his stomach.

Health & Medicine

Doctors Alarmed by Man Who Quit Drinking and Started Swallowing Metal Nails and Screws

By Dan Robitzski

About 126,000 gallons of crude oil spilled out of a pipeline near Orange County, California, causing damage to the environment that could last for months.

Huge Oil Spill Strikes Off Coast of California

By Dan Robitzski

In 2018, Blue Origin hired consultants in an attemtp to imitate and then ultimately catch up to SpaceX, according to leaked notes.

Leaked Documents Show That Blue Origin Was Obsessed With SpaceX

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla added to its lawsuit against rival automaker Rivian, accusing the company of poaching staff and stealing proprietary trade secrets.

Tesla Says Electric Car Rival Rivian Keeps Stealing Secrets

By Dan Robitzski

Former Blue Origin employee Alexandra Abrams has accused the company's senior leadership of rampant sexism, descrimination, and disregarding safety issues.

Former Jeff Bezos Space Employee: “I Really Wished He Was the Person We All Thought He Was”

By Dan Robitzski

As Arctic ice melts away, it could unleash dangerous, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, nuclear waste, and toxic chemicals that had been sealed away.

Melting Arctic Could Release Nuclear Waste and Deadly Pathogens, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Current and former Blue Origin employees wrote an op-ed in which they say they don't trust that the company's New Shepard rocket is safe.

Blue Origin Employees Say They Don’t Think Its Rocket Is Safe, Wouldn’t Ride In It

By Dan Robitzski

A new study projects that China's population could drop by half in just 30 years unless urgent measures are taken to make raising kids more affordable.

China’s Population Projected to Fall by Half Within 30 Years

By Dan Robitzski

A woman's newborn baby died nine months after preventable complications at birth that hospital staff missed due to a ransomware hack.

Hackers Attacked a Hospital and Allegedly Killed a Newborn Baby

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has decided to keep the name for the James Webb Space Telescope as -is despite criticism over the former Administrator's homophobic past.

Science & Energy

NASA Refuses to Rename Giant Homophobic Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

A man from Florida just returned a Moon rock from the Apollo 17 mission. It vanished without a trace until he bought it at a garage sale.

Science & Energy

Florida Man Returns Missing NASA Moon Rock he Bought at Garage Sale

By Dan Robitzski

The icy "glue" that holds Antarctica's ice shelf together and fills in any cracks is melting away, leaving the entire shelf in a dire situation.

The Icy “Glue” Holding Antarctica Together Is Starting To Fail

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA and the Air Force successfully flight tested a hypersonic missile that "breathes" the air around it to propel itself faster.

DARPA Successfully Launched an “Air-Breathing” Hypersonic Missile

By Dan Robitzski

The augmented reality company Nreal just announced a new set of AR glasses that don't have a single outward-facing camera.

Science & Energy

New AR Glasses Are for Streaming Video and Ignoring the Real World

By Dan Robitzski

Google is about to launch a "wildfire" layer on Google Maps that shows whether the surrounding area is currently burning.

Google Maps Now Lets You Know if Your Route Is on Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Former Google X Chief Business Officer Mo Gawdat says that AI developers are creating God, and that humanity is in trouble because of it.

Former Google Exec Warns That AI Researchers Are “Creating God”

By Dan Robitzski

Mining companies are planning to scrape up the materials necessary to build electric car batteries from the bottom of the ocean.

Corporations Are Sending Huge Mining Machines to the Bottom of the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental gene therapy drastically improved the eyesight — and ability to see color — of volunteers with a rare genetic condition.

RX and Medicine

Gene Therapy Restored Vision To Patient Who Hadn’t Seen Colors in Years

By Dan Robitzski

The Sun is about to pass between Mars and Earth, so NASA and the CNSA are putting their various rovers into safe mode until it moves.

Every Mars Rover Is About To Go Into Safe Mode

By Dan Robitzski

People peed so many party drugs into a local river at the 2019 Glastonbury music festival that the water became dangerous for local, protected eels.

Festival Goers Did So Many Drugs That Their Pee Harmed Local Fish

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is sending a film crew to the International Space Station in order to shoot what will be the first fictional, feature-length movie filmed in space.

International Space Station

A Film Crew Is Launching to the International Space Station Next Week

By Dan Robitzski

Police who were struck by a Tesla that reportedly had Autopilot mode engaged are now suing the automaker for false advertising.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Police Sue Tesla for Self-Driving Car That Injured Five Officers

By Dan Robitzski

A massive dust storm struck Brazil on Sunday, with massive plumes of dirt appearing to engulf entire cities that were enduring a long-term drought.

Watch a Huge Dust Storm Swallow an Entire City

By Dan Robitzski

Alarming new research suggests that each generation will face a more climate change-ravaged planet than the one before it.

If You’re Under 40 You’re Gonna See Some Horrible Stuff, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study on over 1.1 million blood samples found that half of American kids under the age of 6 could have lead in their blood.

Half of American Kids Have Lead in Their Blood, Doctors Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists that developed climate projects for the year 2,500 is warning of an earth so different it's "alien to humans."

The Climate Projection for 500 Years From Now Is Unbelievably Bad

By Dan Robitzski

After the web host Epik, popular among the far-right, was hacked, Nazis and other far-right extremists are being unmasked by researchers and activists.

Science & Energy

Nazis Exposed After Their Web Host Gets Hacked

By Dan Robitzski

Pulmonologist Matthew Trunsky says that most the antivaxxer patients he recently vented about have since died of their coronavirus infections.

COVID Patients Tell Doctor Coronavirus Is Fake, Then All Die

By Dan Robitzski

The Indian state Rajasthan shut off the internet for about 8.5 million people on Sunday in order to prevent anyone from cheating on a standardized test.

Indian State Cuts Off Internet for 8.5 Million to Prevent Students Cheating on Standardized Test

By Dan Robitzski

German researchers working on a research initiative to decarbonized the steel industry unveiled a modified hydrogen Tesla that runs on synthetic fuel.

German Researchers Converted a Tesla Model Y Into a Hydrogen Car

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a machine that simultaneously 3D prints and laser-cooks chicken, hinting at a new way to rapidly procure meals.

New Tech Cooks and 3D Prints Chicken Simultaneously

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of college professors are finding that their Gen Z students don't understand the concepts of directories filled with folders and files.

Science & Energy

Gen Z Kids Apparently Don’t Understand How File Systems Work

By Dan Robitzski

A new chemical reactor seems to be able to take carbon dioxide and convert it into the building blocks for rocket fuel, making Mars journeys more feasible.

Scientists Say New Technique Could Turn Martian Air Into Rocket Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

A new MIT research center aims to merge humanity with tech like brain-computer interfacesor robotic limbs in order to treat or erase physical disabilities.

RX and Medicine

MIT Establishes New Initiative to Meld Humans and Machines

By Dan Robitzski

A man says that his Tesla suddenly broke down and completely locked up in the middle of a highway, making it impossible for him to safely pull over.

Driver Claims Tesla Locked Up in Middle of Six-Lane Highway

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists got an unprecedented look at the exoplanet WASP-127b and made new discoveries about its atmosphere and weather.

Scientists Manage to Study Weather on Planet in Different Solar System

By Dan Robitzski

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