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A massive study on alcohol consumption found that those who drank to the point of passing out developed dementia at over twice the normal rate.
Neuroscience and Brain

Research Links Blackout Drinking to Doubled Dementia Risk

By Dan Robitzski

AmazonBasics products seem to have a troublesome tendency to explode or catch fire. Despite that, many troublesome products are still avaialbe online.
Science & Energy

Amazon Products Are Reportedly Exploding and Catching Fire

By Dan Robitzski

Colleges that pivoted to online education still need to find out how to do science labwork — some are mailing animal parts to students to dissect at home.
Biology

Colleges Are Mailing Brains to Students to Dissect at Home

By Dan Robitzski

As colleges and universities open their doors, it's becoming clear that they are not prepared to offer mental healthcare to everyone who will need it.
Mental Health

The Mental Healthcare Crisis Coming to American Universities

By Dan Robitzski

According to new rankings, the U.S. only has the 28th best quality of life in the world, and has some of the worst access to education and healthcare.
Studies

New Research: Quality of Life Is Slipping Backwards in the US

By Dan Robitzski

In the towns surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, people are returning to their long-abandoned homes to find them overrun by monkeys.
Nuclear Fusion

Japan Battles Wild Monkeys at Site of Nuclear Meltdown

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists suggests that meteor impact craters could have offered the perfect conditions for life on Earth to emerge.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Life on Earth Likely Started in Meteor Craters

By Dan Robitzski

While scientists predicted that forests would continue to serve as carbon sinks, the benefits may be short-lived as too much CO2 makes trees die younger.
Climate Change

Too Much CO2 Is Killing Trees, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft got an up-close look at the asteroid Bennu as it crumbled apart and left a trail of debris and particles in its wake.
Science & Energy

NASA Got an Up-Close Look at an Asteroid Crumbling Apart

By Dan Robitzski

A study involving hundreds of Russian cosmonaut brain scans reveal how the brain temporariy changes after months in orbit.
Neuroscience and Brain

According to Scans, Astronaut Brains “Reorganize” During Space Travel

By Dan Robitzski

New recordings of President Trump reveal that he knew exactly how dangerous the coronavirus was back in February but refused to act.
Developments

Trump Admitted on Tape That He Knew COVID-19 Was Deadly

By Dan Robitzski

A brain floating against a space scene background.
Off-World

Zero Gravity Causes Worrisome Changes In Astronauts’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. just approved designs for the first small modular reactors, scaled down fission reactors that could help transition away from fossil fuels.
Nuclear Fusion

US Approves First Small-Scale Nuclear Reactors

By Dan Robitzski

When a volunteer in AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial fell sick, the entire study had to be put on hold to see if it was a side effect.
Viruses

COVID Vaccine Trial Paused After Volunteer Develops Mysterious Illness

By Dan Robitzski

The newspaper The Guardian published an op-ed supposedly written by the AI algorithm GPT-3, but human editors had a major role in shaping the final version.
Artificial Intelligence

Major Newspaper Publishes Op-Ed Written by GPT-3

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is using a kind of heavy-duty metallic glass to develop rovers that can explore colder environments than ever before.
Science & Energy

NASA Is Making Moon Rover Parts Out of Metallic Glass

By Dan Robitzski

The electric automaker Nikola just partnered up with General Motors, which will handle manufacturing and supply batteries for its upcoming electric truck.
Tesla

General Motors Is Teaming Up With Tesla Competitor Nikola

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey reveals that a majority of Generation Z believes that humanity might be able to slow down climate change but not stop it.
Climate Change

The Majority of Gen Z Thinks Climate Change Is Inevitable

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers ran a flight test of a model Flying-V, the experimental plane that has seats inside its wings, for the first time.
Advanced Transport

Engineers Test Jetliner Where You Ride in the Wings

By Dan Robitzski

There's finally published research suggesting that the Russian COVID-19 vaccine boosts the immune system, but it's not clear if it will actually help.
RX and Medicine

Finally, There’s Evidence That the Russian COVID Vaccine Might Work

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci warns that we've all entered a "pandemic era" due to the impacts of human civilization on spreading new diseases.
Developments

Fauci Warns That Earth Has Entered a “Pandemic Era”

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists build a recreation of the Nintendo Game Boy that works without any batteries to demonstrate new ways to build clean gadgets.
Energy

Battery-Free Game Boy Powered by Force of Mashing Buttons

By Dan Robitzski

A Russian biologist plans to gene-hack more CRISPR babies in an attempt to prevent deafness despite other scientists' warnings.
Gene Editing

Russian Scientist Still Plotting to Create More CRISPR Babies

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a solar system with three stars that tore apart its own protoplanetary disc with the stars' bizarre orbits.
Science & Energy

A Three-Star System Ripped Apart Its Own Protoplanetary Disc

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is launching a Alexa for Residential service that makes it easier for landlords to convert units into smart apartments.
Future Society

Amazon Promises Its Alexa For Landlords System Doesn’t Spy on Tenants

By Dan Robitzski

A team of psychophysicists believe they've figured out how consciousness works in our mind. If so, they would also have settled a 1,500-year-old debate.
Science & Energy

Psychophysicists: Your Brain Might Not Be as Conscious as You Think

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors engineered a virus that can infect treatment-resistant tumors and make them more vulnerable to existing therapies.
Viruses

Doctors Fight Deadly Tumors Using Gene-Hacked Virus

By Dan Robitzski

The Breakthrough Listen Initiative is now listening for radio transmissions from 200 times more star systems it was before.
Science & Energy

SETI Team Increases Number of Stars That Might Host Life by 200x

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have no idea what formed a series of bizarre ridges on the surface of Mars, and they're not confident in their guess.
Science & Energy

Scientists Still Baffled by Bizarre Martian Ridges

By Dan Robitzski

An engineer trained an artificial intelligence algorithm on the King James Bible and had it write bizarre doomsday scripture.
Artificial Intelligence

AI Trained on the Bible Spits Out Bleak Religious Prophecies

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a shark that had its teeth and skin almost completely eaten away by ocean acidification and chemical pollution.
Pollution

Pollution Dissolved This Shark’s Teeth and Skin, Researchers Say

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that GEODEs, or imitation black holes full of dark energy, could be driving the universe's ongoing expansion.
Science & Energy

Physicists: Fake Black Holes Could Be Pulling the Universe Apart

By Dan Robitzski

A team of physicists speculate that a bizarre form of extraterrestrial life might be able to survive and rapidly evolve inside stars.
Space

Scientists Say Life Could Survive Inside Stars

By Dan Robitzski

The bodybuilding supplement AKG keeps mouse alive and healthy for longer, so scientists want to see if it does the same for humans.
RX and Medicine

This Drug Makes Mice Live Longer and Healthier Lives

By Dan Robitzski

New optical tweezers can pick up objects as small as ten nanometers, potentially improving the way biologists investigate molecules.
Biology

Engineers Build Tweezers So Tiny They Can Pick Up Individual Molecules

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers have built a true hologram, not unlike the ones seen in "Star Wars": a short loop of the Earth spinning on its axis.
Virtual Reality

Scientists Create True, “Star Wars”-Style Hologram

By Dan Robitzski

The Trump Administration's de facto ban on Chinese-made drones has prevented the Interior Department from starting controlled burns to limit forest fires.
Drones

Leaked Memo: Trump’s Chinese Drone Ban Made Wildfire Season Worse

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists mapped the physical structure of the coronavirus' genetic code at an unprecedented level of detail in hopes that they can find ways to stop it.
Viruses

Scientists Create 3D Map of Entire Coronavirus Genetic Structure

By Dan Robitzski

Cryptographer Seny Kamara urges his peers in computer science to assume responsibility for how their work is used, especially against marginalized groups.
Future Society

Computer Scientist: We Can’t Ignore How Our Work Hurts Marginalized Groups

By Dan Robitzski

COVID-19 scientists are running out of primates to test their experimental vaccines on, meaning important research can't be conducted.
Developments

Scientists Are Running Out of Primates to Test Vaccines On

By Dan Robitzski

Videos of police violence are important for holding the powerful accountable, but they're linked to PTSD and depression symptoms in Black and Latinx teens.
Health & Medicine

Police Brutality Videos Are Giving Teens PTSD Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, Elon Musk held a prototype product demo for Neuralink. But experts in the crowd remain unimpressed by his bold, unsubstantiated claims
Neuroscience and Brain

Neuralink’s Demo Didn’t Impress Experts

By Dan Robitzski

In order to learn how cells can navigate large distances within our bodies, scientists plopped them into increasingly-complex mazes.
Biology

Researchers Forced Living Cells to Navigate Tiny Mazes

By Dan Robitzski

A NASA satellite from 1964 is going to re-enter the Earth's atmosphere for an extremely fiery retirement at some point this weekend.
Science & Energy

A NASA Satellite From the 1960s Is About to Die

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to powerful new lasers, scientists can now observe space debris orbiting the Earth during the daytime and better predict their paths.
Science & Energy

Scientists Saw Space Debris During the Day for the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

The Japanese Company SkyDrive Inc just conducted a successful test of its eVTOL flying car vehicle with a human pilot on board.
Advanced Transport

Japanese Company Tests a Flying Car — With a Human On Board

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just watched as a doomed sungrazer comet hurtled directly toward the Sun, ultimately crumbling apart along the way.
Science & Energy

This Dumbass Comet Just Flew Directly Into the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

According to some bizarre theoretical physics, the human-traversable wormholes from science fiction should be possible to create.
Physics

Physicists: Wormholes Large Enough to Travel Through Are Possible

By Dan Robitzski

In order to protect the Moon from destructive lunar mining operations, one scientists suggests granting the Moon legal personhood.
Moon

Scientist: We Should Grant the Moon Legal Personhood

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that a woman is cured of HIV without taking any medications or getting a bone marrow transplant as other cured patients did.
RX and Medicine

Doctors Think They Cured a Woman’s HIV by Doing Nothing

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests scientists should pay greater attention to their lab mice's well-being. Not only for the mice's sake, but because it improves the science.
Biology

Scientists: Lab Mice Deserve Happier Lives

By Dan Robitzski

After federal law enforcement seized millions of dollars' worth of crypto from terrorist organizations, Congress is left with questions.
Bitcoin

The IRS Seized Millions in Terrorists’ Crypto. Congress Has Questions

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci just published research alongside a downright depressing map that shows all of the world's outbreaks of disease.
Developments

Dr. Fauci Just Released a World Map of Ongoing Disease Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

Army engineer Frank Gardea is developing self-reconfiguring and self-repairing materials to make robots that he says are inspired by the Terminator.
Robots and Machines

US Army Scientist Brags That He’s Trying to Build the Bad Guy From “Terminator 2”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have long suggested that microbes could theoretically live in the sulfurous clouds of Venus. An MIT team has more ideas on how that would work.
Biology

MIT Scientists Suggest Life Could Thrive in the Clouds of Venus

By Dan Robitzski

AI-Generated Sound Effects Are Now Fooling Human Ears
Artificial Intelligence

AI-Generated Sound Effects Are Now Fooling Human Ears

By Dan Robitzski

Watching a short video explaining how the questions on an IQ test work can boost one's score by 18 points, calling the test's validity into question.
Science & Energy

Watching This Video Raises Your IQ Score 18 Points, Researchers Say

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently put out a weird little cartoon that introduces kids to surprisingly complex topics like special relativity and the scale of the universe.
Physics

Video Shows NASA’s Bizarre Guide to Near-Light-Speed Travel

By Dan Robitzski

The Arecibo Observatory, a staple of the SETI research community, will be out of commission for months after a supper cable mysteriously fell.
Science & Energy

SETI Telescope Down for Months After Mysterious Damage

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian government is about to start a 40,000-person experiment on its COVID-19 vaccine, which is usually something that happens before they approve it.
Viruses

40,000 Russians Are About to Get That Untested COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

NASA warns that harvesting lunar ice for future settlers' drinking water could make it impossible to study the ice down the road.
Moon

Mining Lunar Ice Could Irrevocably Damage the Moon’s Environment

By Dan Robitzski

A new NASA facility will communicate with distant spacecraft via lasers, vastly improving the bandwidth of interplanetary communications.
Science & Energy

NASA Facility Will Beam Messages to Space Through Lasers

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a new kind of plastic that can be broken down and recycled an indefinite number of times without losing quality.
Science & Energy

A New Kind of Plastic Could Be Recycled Indefinitely

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that kids with COVID-19 have a much higher viral load — meaning the virus reproduces more rampantly in their bodies — than expected.
Viruses

According to New Research, Kids Spread COVID-19 Like Crazy

By Dan Robitzski