More from Dan Robitzski (Page 20)

Scientists are certain that the U.S. COVID-19 death toll is well over 200,000 lives. Conspiracy theories attempting to minimize deaths are easily debunked.

Scientists: Yes, the COVID-19 Death Toll Is Really That High

By Dan Robitzski

Call center contractors for Amazon's Ring say they're forced to work in an unsanitary office where dozens have gotten sick.

Amazon Contractors Forced to Work in Office With Sick Coworkers

By Dan Robitzski

The Justice Department just filed an antitrust case against Google that's the largest the company has had to face so far.

Justice Department Nails Google with Massive Antitrust Case

By Dan Robitzski

Alarming research reveals that each time the Arctic permafrost thawed in the past, it released unimaginable amounts of carbon into the atmosphere.

This Is the Devastating Potential of the Arctic Permafrost Melting

By Dan Robitzski

In an unusual case report, a high dose of Ambien temporarily restored the ability to speak and walk to a man who'd spent eight years in a coma-like state.

Neuroscience and Brain

Ambien Temporarily Restored a Man’s Ability to Walk, Speak

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci warns that as we hit the third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, there's no end in sight. Trump is taking it out on Fauci instead of helping.

Trump: Fauci’s a ‘Disaster.’ Fauci: Pandemic’s Not Over.

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers argues that a spacecraft powered by nuclear fusion would radically improve our ability to explore the cosmos.

Fusion-Drive Spacecraft: Express Solar System Travel, If We Figure It Out

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just paid Bell Labs $14.1 million to develop a 4G network — on the Moon.

The Moon Is Getting Cell Service

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is funding research toward a camera that can detach from a spacecraft and film it landing from the surface of another world.

NASA Wants a Moon Camera to Film Landing Spacecraft From the Lunar Surface

By Dan Robitzski

Using spinach as a catalyst, a team of scientists built an experimental fuel cell that outperformed conventional platinum cells.

Scientists Built a Fuel Cell Out of Spinach

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese government announced that it plans to dump radioactive water stored at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear power plant into the sea.

Japan Plans to Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water Into the Sea

By Dan Robitzski

Three percent of SpaceX's Starlink satellites seem to have failed. That's not bad, but it gets dangerous considering how big the constellation will become.

Science & Energy

Three Percent of SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Died

By Dan Robitzski

The German government will soon publish a draft law that would legally enforce workers' right to stay home and do their job remotely.

Germany Wants to Make Remote Work a Legal Right

By Dan Robitzski

If a war were waged in space, it wouldn't look anything like Star Wars or Star Trek, reserachers argue. Any conflict would need to be planned in advance.

Experts: This Is What Actual Space Battles Will Be Like

By Dan Robitzski

While a popular politically-motivated document calls for the U.S. to focus on herd immunity against COVID-19, but doctors agree that it would be disastrous.

Experts: Herd Immunity Is an Absolutely Terrible Idea, You Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

Cruise just got permission from the California DMV to test out fully-driverless cars in the state, and it plans to be the first to test in San Francisco.

Advanced Transport

CA Says General Motors Can Test Fully Driverless Cars on Its Roads

By Dan Robitzski

Mars was in opposition while passing near Earth this week, so space photographers had a field day with the rare occurrence.

Mars Was so Close This Week That You Can See Its Surface From Your Backyard

By Dan Robitzski

Two massive pieces of space junk might crash into each other on Thursday night, potentially making low Earth orbit and even more dangerous minefield.

Science & Energy

Experts Predict Sizeable Chance of Epic Space Junk Collision Tonight

By Dan Robitzski

This year, Dr. Fauci says that Thanksgiving is too risky for his family, and suggests more Americans should cancel their plans as well.

Dr. Fauci: It’s Too Dangerous to See My Kids This Thanksgiving

By Dan Robitzski

The Arctic Ice Project wants to protect and rebuild crucial ice formations by covering the Arctic in reflective glass beads.

The Plan to Sprinkle Reflective Glass Over the Arctic

By Dan Robitzski

A newly-discovered tardigrade can survive dangerous levels of ultraviolet radiation, and it glows blue whenever it's exposed.

Science & Energy

Newly-Discovered Tardigrade Glows Blue to Block Deadly Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, The Flaming Lips played a show where every member of the audience was safely sealed away inside a plastic bubble.

Band Plays Show With Each Audience Member Inside a Plastic Bubble

By Dan Robitzski

A woman died after catching the coronavirus, even though she had recovered from COVID-19 months prior. It's the first confirmed death linked to reinfection.

Woman Dies After Catching COVID-19 a Second Time

By Dan Robitzski

$Research shows that fracking releases airborne radioactivity that can be carried great distances to nearby towns on the wind.$

Fracking Releases Airborne Radioactivity, Harvard Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

The ESA is experimenting with satellites that use flax fiber instead of steel-like carbon fibers so that they incinerate easier upon retirement.

The ESA Is Weaving Flax Fiber Into Satellites So They Incinerate Better

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is now running underwater tests for the spacesuits it plans on using for the upcoming series of Artemis missions to the Moon.

NASA Is Now Testing Its Artemis Moon Landing Spacesuit

By Dan Robitzski

The galaxy Dragonfly 44, which scientists said had a baffling 10,000-to-one ratio of dark matter to visible matter, may not be so unique after all.

Scientists: That “99.9% Dark Matter” Galaxy Is Actually Perfectly Normal

By Dan Robitzski

A coronavirus patient caught the disease on two separate occasions, and the second time around was even more severe than the first.

Reinfected Patient’s Second Case of COVID-19 Was Even More Severe

By Dan Robitzski

A new colonoscopy robot sounds terrifying, but it might actually make for a smoother ride than having a human doctor steer the endoscope.

RX and Medicine

Researchers Built a Powerful Robot Arm to Do Colonoscopies

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built tiny sensors that can safely detach and fall to the ground after a moth carries it to some hard-to-reach destination.

Robots and Machines

Scientists Want to Use Moths to Blanket the Earth in Tiny Sensors

By Dan Robitzski

Through fortunate timing, the space probe BepiColombo is passing Venus tonight, just a month after scientists first found signs of potential life there.

Science & Energy

A Spacecraft Is Going to Hunt Life in Venus’ Clouds This Week

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists traced the Atlantic Ocean's temperatures over the last 2,900 years. It just had its hottest decade since then, and it's getting worse.

The Atlantic Ocean Had Its Hottest Decade in Three Millennia

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists developed new wearable sensors that can be manufactured directly onto someone's skin — without burning the recipient in the process.

Prosthetics and Devices

New Wearables Can Be Printed Directly Onto Skin

By Dan Robitzski

There's Twitter drama unfolding at the Russian space agency Roscosmos, where former cosmonauts attacked the agency director who responded as a robot.

Science & Energy

Russian Cosmonauts Are Fighting a Robot on Twitter

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook, a company that's been around since 2004, announced on October 12, 2020 that it will prohibit posts that deny or distort the Holocaust.

Facebook Waited Until October 12, 2020 to Ban Holocaust Denial

By Dan Robitzski

The X4, a smartwatch designed for kids, has a disturbing number of cybersecurity vulnerabilities that could put children at risk.

Robots and Machines

This Smartwatch Lets Creeps Take Pics of Kids

By Dan Robitzski

As a temporary boost in the fight against COVID-19, a team of U.K. scientists are experimenting with a tuberculosis vaccine from 1921.

Scientists Are Testing a 99-Year-Old Tuberculosis Vaccine on COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

Peloton, the digital exercise bike company, is now waging a war against hate speech and misinformation on its online platform.

Peloton — Yes, the Exercise Bike — Is Fighting Hate Speech on Its Platform

By Dan Robitzski

As Antarctica melts, the sea level could rise by an additional four inches over what models predicted by 2100 due to fluctuations in weather.

A Melting Antarctica Could Raise the Sea Level More Than Expected

By Dan Robitzski

The autonomous vehicle company Waymo just announced that its self-driving taxi service Waymo One is opening up to the public.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Ditches Human Safety Drivers in Its Self-Driving Taxis

By Dan Robitzski

Research shows that the human species is rapidly evolving: The percent of people with a medial artery in their forearms has grown over the last 150 years.

Humans Are Evolving a New Artery

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft announced that it will indefinitely extend its remote working policies for employees who don't need a physical office to do their jobs.

Microsoft Says Its Employees Can Work From Home Forever

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors studying the cadavers of people who died from COVID-19 identified traces of the coronavirus in half of their brains.

Doctors Find Coronavirus in Brains of Cadavers

By Dan Robitzski

China announced the next 18 astronauts that its space agency selected to serve on Tiangong-3, the space station planned for launch in the coming years.

China Names 18 More Crewmembers for Its Upcoming Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Extended trips in space could make the heart age faster, because it gets used to not having to work as hard in zero gravity.

Spending Time in Space Makes Your Heart Age Faster

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX made its "best and final offer" to the remaining residents of Boca Chica, Texas, but residents say they're being lowballed and mistreated.

SpaceX Is Having Trouble With the Neighbors of Its Spaceport

By Dan Robitzski

A new delivery mechanism for gene-editing enzymes allows doctors to target specific kinds of cells or regions of the brain.

New Injection Can Gene-Edit Specific Parts of the Brain, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that black holes give off a complex series of "chirps" in the form of gravitational waves after they merge.

Science & Energy

Black Holes “Chirp” Repeatedly When They Merge

By Dan Robitzski

Sir Roger Penrose, who just won a Nobel Prize for discovering black holes, says that our universe was neither the first to exist, nor will it be the last.

Science & Energy

Physicist: There Were Other Universes Before the Big Bang

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers suggest checking the surface of the Moon for ancient rocks that could have been blasted away from Venus during asteroid strikes.

Science & Energy

The Moon Might Be Littered With Ancient Shrapnel From Venus

By Dan Robitzski

Russia says it successfully tested its Zircon, a hypersonic nuclear missile that can travel nine times the speed of sound, on Tuesday.

Russia Says It Successfully Tested a Hypersonic Nuke

By Dan Robitzski

A team of MIT scientists working on a universal flu vaccine, or a single inoculation that blocks all flu viruses, modeled a successful vaccination method.

RX and Medicine

MIT Scientists Making Key Progress on Universal Flu Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the country will power all homes with wind energy by 2030, but it might cost more than he's allocating.

UK Pledges to Get 100% of Residential Power From Wind Turbines

By Dan Robitzski

A new hydrogel, when implanted into rats and toads, worked like a bridge between damaged nerves and healed them faster than other techniques.

RX and Medicine

Scientists Claim to Invent Hydrogel That Heals Nerve Damage

By Dan Robitzski

A photo of the assembly line at Tesla's Fremont factory shows what appears to be another, freshly-assembled Cybertruck prototype.

Photo Shows Cybertruck on Tesla Assembly Line

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out what happened to Cassiopeia A, a star that had its outer layers blown away before it ultimately exploded in a supernova.

Science & Energy

Something Peeled an Entire Layer Off This Star Like a Giant Orange

By Dan Robitzski

A seed company uploaded a picture of onions to market its seeds on Facebook. The algorithm flagged it for being "overtly sexualized."

Facebook Algorithm Flags Onions as “Overtly Sexualized”

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX just won a contract with the military's Space Development Agency to build four satellites that can track missiles like ICBMs.

Science & Energy

The Pentagon Commissioned SpaceX to Build Missile-Tracking Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Computer Scientist: AI Can’t Flourish Without a Physical Body

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Scientist: AI Can’t Flourish Without a Physical Body

By Dan Robitzski

Rising temperatures are a big problem for the dairy industry, so scientists are gene-hacking cows to keep them cool and help them survive.

Scientists Tried to Gene Hack Cows to Survive Climate Change but the Cows Died

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found individual neurons that had been turned into glass in the brain matter of an ancient Mount Vesuvius victim.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Preserved Brain Cells in Ancient Man Crushed by Volcano

By Dan Robitzski

The International Space Station finally got is new space toilet, which crewmembers will test for several months before deciding if it should go to the Moon.

Science & Energy

The International Space Station Finally Got Its New Space Toilet

By Dan Robitzski

According to new research, investing in nuclear power doesn't tend to lead to a drop in greenhouse gas emissions like using renewables does.

Scientists: Nuclear Energy is a Waste of Time

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists 3D printed fake sea turtle eggs and stuffed them with GPS transmitters to track and stop poachers from selling the endangered species.

Scientists Put GPS Trackers Inside Fake Sea Turtle Eggs to Catch Poachers

By Dan Robitzski

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