More from Dan Robitzski (Page 26)

The state of Arkansas is suing televangelist Jim Bakker after he advertised and sold fraudulent, entirely made up cures for COVID-19.
Viruses

Arkansas Sues Televangelist for Selling Fake COVID-19 Cure

By Dan Robitzski

Health experts and lawmakers are demanding a 9/11 Commission-scale investigation into the failed U.S. COVID-19 response so we can plan for future outbreaks.
Developments

Experts Want a 9/11 Commission-Level Probe of the US COVID Response

By Dan Robitzski

China has been taking blood samples from every man and boy in the country in order to build a vast genetic database of their DNA.
Gene Editing

China Is Building a Genetic Database of Every Man in the Country

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, an unusual fireball streaked across the sky over Australia, leaving astronomers wondering whether they saw an incinerating satellite or a meteor.
Science & Energy

Watch a Mysterious Blue Fireball Scream Over Australia

By Dan Robitzski

New animation tech can create a virtual represenation of a dog after filming it with a single camera, no motion capture suit needed.
Science & Energy

New Motion Capture Tech Could Digitize Your Dog Into Video Games

By Dan Robitzski

A common mutation of the coronavirus is far more contagious than others, potentially explaining why some regions were so devastated.
Viruses

Scientists: Mutated Version of Coronavirus May Have Hit NYC, Italy

By Dan Robitzski

By genetically modifying goats, scientists found a way to make them manufacture expensive cancer medications in their milk.
Cancer

Scientists Gene-Hack Goats to Make Cancer Drug in Their Milk

By Dan Robitzski

A team of astronomers probing the night sky for signs of dark energy discovered almost 21,000 new, extremely-dim galaxies.
Energy

Dark Energy Researchers Discover Nearly 21,000 New Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just authorized an iOS game as a treatment for adolescent ADHD, making it the first ever prescription video game.
RX and Medicine

FDA Approves First-Ever Prescription Video Game

By Dan Robitzski

According to retired NASA astronaut Thomas Jones, the global failure to contain COVID-19 could be a teachable moment for asteroid impact planning.
Science & Energy

Astronaut: Killer Asteroid Plan Must Be Better Than COVID Response

By Dan Robitzski

Michael Flor, who survived a record-setting 62-day hospital stay for the coronavirus, just got hit by a $1.1 million hospital bill.
Viruses

Man Survives Coronavirus, Gets $1.1 Million Hospital Bill

By Dan Robitzski

Loneliness is difficult to quantify, but scientists find that prolonged isolation can lead to both mental and physical medical conditions.
Health & Medicine

COVID Could Be Making People So Lonely That They’re Getting Sick

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, astronomers were able to watch the entire, weeks-long process of a neutron star absorbing matter and creating a powerful x-ray blast.
Physics

Astronomers Watch Neutron Star “Charge Up” Before Huge X-ray Blast

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are closing in on a 13-billion-year-old signal from the "dark age" of the universe, an ancient era from before stars had formed.
Science & Energy

Scientists Hunting For Signs of the “Dark Age” Before Stars Formed

By Dan Robitzski

According to a BuzzFeed News op-ed, the real economic crisis caused by the coronavirus pandemic is going to happen in August.
Future Society

Terrifying Argument Says Economy Will Collapse For Real in August

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists recreated the conditions under which life originated. They think they've kickstarted the whole process by generating new vesicles.
Biology

Scientists Claim to Have Recreated Earth’s First Life

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to a newly-passed resolution, Ithaca, New York might become the first U.S. city to cancel and forgive rent payments during the coronavirus pandemic.
Future Society

City Passes Measure to Cancel Rent During Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that a bizarre quasiparticle can reproduce by splitting in two and self-repairing like a biological cell would.
Physics

Bizarre Subatomic “Quasiparticle” Reproduces Like a Living Cell

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that platelet cells could be engineered to propel themselves through the bloodstream and deliver medicine.
Studies

Engineered Human Cells Could Propel Drugs Through the Body

By Dan Robitzski

In 2010, a scientist published research suggesting that 2020 would be a total shitshow. It goes without saying he really nailed it.
Science & Energy

A 2010 Scientific Paper Predicted That 2020 Would Be a Shitshow

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists: Super High Potency Weed Doesn’t Really Get You Higher
RX and Medicine

Scientists: Super High Potency Weed Doesn’t Really Get You Higher

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre star system: a collapsed pulsar and white dwarf binary orbiting a second white dwarf, upheld a major tenet of Einstein's general relativity.
Physics

Collapsed Star Proves Another of Einstein’s Theories

By Dan Robitzski

Dario Gil, the director of IBM Research, predicts that quantum computing app stores and code repositories will begin to emerge this decade.
Quantum Physics

IBM Director: Get Ready For Quantum Computing App Stores

By Dan Robitzski

Over the next three months, three potential COVID-19 vaccines will begin phase III clinical trials, the final test before regulatory approval.
Viruses

Three COVID-19 Vaccines Are Ready For Final Stage of Testing

By Dan Robitzski

On a call with biotechnology executives, Dr. Anthony Fauci described the coronavirus pandemic as his worst nightmare as a health expert.
Developments

Fauci Says “Worst Nightmare” Pandemic Is Worse Than He Ever Feared

By Dan Robitzski

A new iPhone update will urge anyone who tells Siri that "all lives matter" to read up on racial issues and visit BlackLivesMatter.com
Artificial Intelligence

Telling Siri “All Lives Matter” Brings up BlackLivesMatter.com

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that, without lockdowns, the U.S. would have likely had nearly 5 million more cases of the coronavirus by early April.
Viruses

Research: Coronavirus Lockdowns Prevented Millions of Infections

By Dan Robitzski

Honda shut down global production on Monday after a cyberattack disrupted several of its car and motorcycle plants around the world.
Advanced Transport

Cyberattack Shuts Down All Honda Factories Worldwide

By Dan Robitzski

To show solidarity with ongoing Black Lives Matter protests and to draw attention to racism in their workplaces, black academics are organizing a strike.
Future Society

Black Researchers Are Holding an Academic Strike to Support BLM

By Dan Robitzski

In order to give high-energy researchers better working conditions, one physicist proposes building a particle collider on the Moon.
Physics

This Madlad Wants to Build a Particle Collider on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

The artificial intelligence system Microsoft uses to post articles to MSN recently confused two women of color, showing how algorithmic bias is happening.
Artificial Intelligence

Robot Journalist Accused of Racism

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists just linked a record-breaking 15 trillion atoms together through quantum entanglement, and they think the technique could help find dark matter.
Physics

Scientists Quantum Entangled a Record-Breaking 15 Trillion Atoms

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just discovered that Saturn's moon Titan is creeping out into space 100 times faster than they previously thought it was.
Science & Energy

Saturn’s Moon Titan Is Drifting Off Into Space, NASA Says

By Dan Robitzski

At protests across the country, police have frequently been showing up without wearing their medical masks during a pandemic.
Developments

Here Are a Bunch of Photos of Cops Not Wearing Masks

By Dan Robitzski

New research into the effects of dark energy suggests that our universe is flat rather than bubble-like. The finding may finally settle the Hubble constant.
Physics

Scientists Claim the Universe Is Actually Flat

By Dan Robitzski

The NASA spacecraft OSIRIS-REx recently flew near the surface of the asteroid Bennu to map out alternative landing sites for its sample collection mission.
Science & Energy

NASA Snaps Closeup Shots of Potential Asteroid Landing Site

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists under lockdown revisited an Einstein ring discovered in 1987 to fill in some of the gaps in our understanding of space.
Science & Energy

This Quasar Warps Itself Into a Ring by Distorting Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

A biotech company wants to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in Texas and Florida to curb insect-spread disease.
Genetics

Scientists Fight Plan to Release Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes in TX, FL

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists managed to directly observe the flow of light as it traveled through a nonoscopic crystal.
Physics

New Microscope Is So Powerful It Can Watch Light Move

By Dan Robitzski

Claims that rubber bullets are nonlethal or less lethal than other forms of ammunition don't hold up to scientific scrutiny.
RX and Medicine

Researchers: Rubber Bullets Often Cause Death, Permanent Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk recently called Amazon a monopoly that should be broken up due to allegations that Amazon censored a controversial book.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Calls To “Break Up Amazon”

By Dan Robitzski

After over a year, NASA's InSight Mars lander finally managed to get its thermal probe underground, where it can record the planet's internal temperature.
Mars

NASA InSight Lander Finally Manages to Bury Its Probe Into Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Google's security team confirmed that both the Trump and Biden campaigns were targeted by foreign hackers, with different countries targeting each.
Hacking

Google: Foreign Hackers Targeting Both Trump and Biden Campaigns

By Dan Robitzski

A new solar panel-like device can generate clean electricity when it's blocked by darkness and shadows rather than sitting in direct sunlight.
Solar Power

Solar Panel-Like Device Generates Power From Darkness

By Dan Robitzski

According to Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, the company is seeing its business return as passengers leave their homes during "party hours."
Future Society

Uber Says Rides During “Party Hours” Are Keeping it Afloat

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists gene-hacked human cells to fully integrate that structures that let some squids turn transparent, giving the cells the ability to scatter light.
Biology

Scientists Gene-Hack Human Cells to Turn Invisible

By Dan Robitzski

In a new study, doctors managed to grow functional, miniature human livers out of stem cells and tested them in living rats.
RX and Medicine

Scientists Grow Mini Human Livers, Transplant Them Into Rats

By Dan Robitzski

Jim Peebles, who first theorized about dark matter, argues in a new essay that there's still a lot of work to be done in proving his ideas.
Physics

The Guy Who Invented Dark Matter Has Some Doubts

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial intelligence algorithms trained on satellite and mobile data could spot coronavirus victims and help better coordinate humanitarian aid.
Artificial Intelligence

Satellites Are Tracking Poor Nations’ Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

A 23-year-old federal program lets the Pentagon sell cops military gear and weaponry for the cost of shipping, all without providing training or guidelines.
Military

Here’s How Deadly Military Tech Ended up in Police Hands

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 is actually a genetic hybrid of a bat and pangolin virus that happened to swap genes.
Viruses

Scientists: Coronavirus Likely a Hybrid of Two Other Viruses

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple scientists have found that greater humidity seems to block the coronavirus from spreading, but experts warn against complacency if cases drop.
Viruses

Two Studies Find That Humidity Prevents Coronavirus Spread

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the early universe was spinning around multiple axes, influencing the direction in which galaxies rotate.
Science & Energy

Evidence Suggests That the Entire Early Universe Was Rotating

By Dan Robitzski

A new study identified 515 vertebrate species that are on the brink of extinction. Each one that vanishes could have devastating ecological effects.
Climate Change

Study: More Than 500 Vertebrates Poised To Go Extinct

By Dan Robitzski

The first human trials for a COVID-19 antibody treatment are beginning. If it works, it could be available by the end of the year.
Treatments

Scientists Test First COVID-19 Antibody Treatment on Humans

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization just confirmed that the Democratic Republic of Congo now has two unrelated Ebola outbreaks occurring simultaneously.
Developments

World Health Organization Confirms New Ebola Outbreak in the Congo

By Dan Robitzski

In order to track local outbreaks of the coronavirus, scientists are analyzing samples from sewers and wastewater treatment facilities.
Environment

Scientists Are Testing Sewers For Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

Over the weekend, Microsoft laid off some 77 journalists and editors who helped curate the news and replaced them with an AI algorithm.
Artificial Intelligence

MSN Fires Journalists, Replaces Them With AI

By Dan Robitzski

The largest electric plane yet just flew for half an hour after taking off for the first time. It's a promising sign for the future of clean aviation.
Advanced Transport

Watch the World’s Largest Electric Plane Take to the Skies

By Dan Robitzski

The Tokyo Women's Medical University started livestreaming surgery in virtual reality as a COVID-19 safety measure that may make education more accessible.
Developments

A Tokyo Hospital Is Livestreaming Surgeries in Virtual Reality

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists think the interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua might actually be a hydrogen iceberg. The unusual idea could explain its stranger properties.
Science & Energy

Interstellar Visitor May Be One of Rarest Objects In Universe

By Dan Robitzski

OpenAI recently released Jukebox, and algorithm that can create original songs or mashup-hybrids in the style of over 9,000 artists. We kicked the tires.
Artificial Intelligence

Mind-Melting AI Makes Frank Sinatra Sing “Toxic” by Britney Spears

By Dan Robitzski

Regularly hitting a vape can mess up your mouth's microbiome so much that harmful bacteria start producing a layer of slime.
RX and Medicine

Vaping Creates a “Slime Cloak” in Your Mouth, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A smart ring can warn users that they've caught the coronavirus up to three days before they show symptoms, potentially keeping them from infecting others.
Prosthetics and Devices

Wearable Claims to Spot COVID Three Days Before Symptoms Appear

By Dan Robitzski