More from Dan Robitzski (Page 27)

At long last, scientists think they've accounted for the half of all the luminous matter in the universe that's been missing for decades.
Science & Energy

Half the Visible Universe Was Missing. Scientists Just Found It.

By Dan Robitzski

Scammers are capitalizing on people's baseless fears that 5G signals cause health problems by selling a cheap USB drive and claiming it protects people.
Science & Energy

These Scammers Are Selling a Nonsense Anti-5G Gadget

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on people taking psilocybin revealed the biological mechanisms responsible for feelings of bliss associated with the drug.
RX and Medicine

Neuroscientists: This Is How Shrooms Break Down Your Sense of Self

By Dan Robitzski

In order to train AI that understand the informal ways people actually type, mathematicians analyzed stretchable words like "duuuuude" and "noooo."
Artificial Intelligence

To Train Better AI, Scientists Are Studying Your Weird Tweets

By Dan Robitzski

A stunning new NASA animation shows how solar winds are interacting with Mars' magnetosphere to strip away the planet's atmosphere.
Science & Energy

This Video of Mars’ Leaking Atmosphere Could Make Elon Musk Cry

By Dan Robitzski

Medical historian John Barry says that the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, especially due to President Trump, has been utterly incoherent.
Developments

Disease Historian: US COVID Response “Incomprehensibly Incoherent”

By Dan Robitzski

Whenever a coronavirus vaccine becomes available to the public, only 49 percent of Americans responding to a poll said they'd actually get it.
Viruses

Only One in Two Americans Say They’d Take a COVID-19 Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A new study on fruit flies found ways to quantitatively measure the level of consciousness that a fly was currently experiencing.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Claim New Method Can Measure Consciousness

By Dan Robitzski

A cybernetics expert recently made a bold claim: he argues that online privacy has long since vanished, so we may as well embrace contact-tracing.
Privacy

Tech Expert: Privacy Is a Myth, so We Might as Well Contact-trace

By Dan Robitzski

An advanced telescope currently being built in Australia will give astronomers a far more detailed glimpse of cosmic events.
Science & Energy

New Telescope Will Watch Entire Southern Sky in Infrared

By Dan Robitzski

North Dakota's coronavirus contact-tracing app was send data to third-party groups in violation of its own privacy policy.
Science & Energy

Gov Contact-Tracing App Sends User Data to Foursquare, Google

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers say they've found a new kind of signal coming from our galaxy's supermassive black hole, which they think are rapidly-rotating flare ups.
Physics

Astronomers Detect Signal Coming From the Heart of Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Astronaut pee may be a priceless resource on future Moon settlements. It turns out it makes for a phenomenal building material.
Moon

On the Moon, the Real Gold Might Be Human Urine

By Dan Robitzski

A Canadian startup called Anahit Therapeutics is trying to get ahead of the psilocybin legalization curve by building cultivation facilities in Jamaica.
Future Society

This Startup is Building a Huge Magic Mushroom Farm in Jamaica

By Dan Robitzski

Experts say that China is becoming the new international leader in the hunt for extraterrestrial life. They hope for newfound international cooperation.
Science & Energy

Experts: China Is Pulling Ahead in Race to Identify Extraterrestrials

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is working on simplified, scaled-down nuclear reactors that it hopes will power future settlements on the Moon and Mars.
Moon

Scientists Want to Build Nuclear Reactors to Power Moon Colony

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are working on a swarm of tiny, cell-sized robots that can travel inside a patient's bloodstream and target cancer cells.
Cancer

Scientists Disguise Cancer-Hunting Nanorobots as Blood Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Neuroscientist Christof Koch is grapping with why so many people experience blissful near-death experiences, a rush that he compares to extreme activities.
Science & Energy

A Famed Neuroscientist Is Investigating Near-Death Experiences

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built tiny, iron nanobots that they can implant and track inside a patient's body, which they say could be used to kill off cancer cells.
Cancer

These Scientists Say Nanobots Could Kill Individual Cancer Cells

By Dan Robitzski

In order to limit the number of doctors who come into contact with COVID-19 patients, hospitals are using mixed reality goggles to communicate across rooms.
Viruses

Doctors Are Using Mixed Reality to Treat COVID-19 Patients

By Dan Robitzski

In order to make space missions cheaper and safer, Japan is considering replacing astronauts with humanoid telepresence robots.
Robotics

Japanese Startup Wants to Replace Astronauts With Space Robots

By Dan Robitzski

In order to equip future Martian settlers, scientists suggest altering their DNA to give them the traits they need to survive.
Mars

Astrobiologist: We Should Gene-Hack New Traits Into Mars Settlers

By Dan Robitzski

A Texas courtroom is experimenting with the videoconferencing software Zoom, which it's using to hold a jury trial this week.
Future Society

A Texas Court Is Holding The First-Ever Jury Trial Over Zoom

By Dan Robitzski

A growing number of biostatistical models predicting the future U.S. coronavirus death toll agree: there will likely be 110,000 fatalities by June 6.
Viruses

Multiple Models Predict 110,000 US Coronavirus Deaths by June

By Dan Robitzski

A new animation by JAXA planetary scientist James O'Donoghue shows just how slow the speed of light is on a cosmic scale.
Physics

Planetary Scientist’s Video Shows How Slow Light Speed Really Is

By Dan Robitzski

A new medical device that looks and spins like a fidget spinner can test for and diagnose a urinary tract infection in under an hour.
Medical

A Fidget Spinner-Inspired Test Can Diagnose UTIs in Under an Hour

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's new Artemis Accords serve as a set of guidelines for both governments and private companies to peacefully operate in space.
NASA

NASA: Please Follow These Space Rules We Can’t Enforce

By Dan Robitzski

After the Senate voted to reauthorize the Patriot Act, House Democrats have one last shot to introduce an amendment that would preserve American's privacy.
Future Society

This Is the Last Chance to Keep Cops From Seeing Your Web History

By Dan Robitzski

As schoolchildren stay home during formative periods of their childhood, scientists are predicting they'll face educational setbacks for years.
Future Society

Scientists Predict the Pandemic Will Set Students Back for Years

By Dan Robitzski

Police in China, Italy, Dubai, and multiple other countries are now wearing thermal cameras embedded in their helmets to scan for fevers.
Viruses

Cops Around the World Are Scanning for Fevers With Helmet Cams

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers and physicists is 3D printing a nuclear reactor, which they say will help speed up the pace at which the slow-paced industry innovates.
3D Printing

Engineers Are 3D-Printing a Nuclear Reactor

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers managed to create the most thoroughly-intermixed human-mouse chimera hybrids to date, thanks to a weird stem cell-manipulating trick.
Biology

Scientists Are Creating Mouse-Human Hybrids

By Dan Robitzski

In a stroke of incredible luck, a NASA/ESA spacecraft is on the right pass to fly right through the tail of a passing comet.
Science & Energy

Research Spacecraft May Pass Through Tail of Dead Comet

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that a certain class of star gives off rhythmic pulsations that are similar to a person's heartbeat.
Science & Energy

Astronomers: Some Stars Have Something Akin to a Heartbeat

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers are building experimental rovers that can vibrate intensely to escape from dangerous, wheel-clogging sand traps on Mars.
Mars

This Wiggly Mars Rover Is the Silliest Thing We’ve Ever Seen

By Dan Robitzski

A website called thisworddoesnotexist uses AI to generate fake but believable definitions for made-up words like "lachetous."
Artificial Intelligence

This Delightful AI Generates Words That Sound Real But Aren’t

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists figured out how the coronavirus takes over cells, and they think they found potential treatments that stop it.
Viruses

Scientists Have a Promising New Idea to Defeat the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Microsoft and the biotech company Adaptive are launching a study on coronavirus patients' T cells, and they're buying blood samples to get started.
Viruses

Microsoft Is Buying COVID-19 Patients’ Blood for Biotech Research

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook just agreed to pay $52 million to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that its content moderators suffered psychological trauma on the job.
Future Society

Facebook Will Pay Mods $52M For Trauma From Gore, Sexual Abuse

By Dan Robitzski

Renowned neuroscientist Christof Koch argues that developing conscious artificial intelligence will require entirely new hardware.
Artificial Intelligence

Neuroscientist: Conventional Computers Will Never Be Conscious

By Dan Robitzski

The machine learning algorithms that recommend products online can't keep up with how rapidly the pandemic has changed our lives.
Machine Learning

The Pandemic Has Seriously Confused Machine Learning Systems

By Dan Robitzski

GOP Majority Leader Mitch McConnell introduced two provisions to the Patriot Act that would give the government broad new powers to spy on every American.
Future Society

The US Government Is Seizing Huge New Surveillance Powers

By Dan Robitzski

In order to protect future Mars settlers from deadly cosmic radiation, researchers suggest building homes in underground tunnels called lava tubes.
Mars

Scientists Say They’ve Found the Perfect Spot for a Mars Colony

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA is preparing to launch the first experimental satellite of its Blackjack network, which would function like a military version of SpaceX's Starlink.
DARPA

DARPA Is About to Launch a Military Version of SpaceX’s Starlink

By Dan Robitzski

The clinic CityMD told 15,000 patients who took a COVID-19 test that they had built up an immunity against the disease, which is more than the test reveals.
Developments

CityMD Wrongly Told 15,000 Patients They Were Immune to COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci argues that the country isn't ready to reopen, and that doing so will lead to a spike in new coronavirus cases and deaths.
Developments

Fauci: Reopening Too Soon Could Lead to “Suffering and Death”

By Dan Robitzski

The thermal, fever-detecting cameras being installed in workplaces and hospitals are unlikely to actually stop future coronavirus outbreaks.
Science & Energy

Experts: Fever-Detecting Cameras Won’t Really Stop Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

To better understand how black holes form and what gravitational waves they give off, physicists are repeatedly simulating extremely violent supernovae.
Physics

Scientists Are Killing Off Virtual Stars to Study Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Dark web marketplaces are full of listings for COVID-19 diagnostic tests and debunked or experimental treatments like hydroxychloroquine or remdesivir.
RX and Medicine

Darknet Marketplaces Are Full of COVID-19 Tests and Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

A beautiful new infrared image of Jupiter makes the entire gassy planet look like it's turned into a giant, swirling fireball.
Science & Energy

Amazing Image of Jupiter Looks Like It’s Burning

By Dan Robitzski

An astrophysicist thinks that the mysterious Planet Nine may really be a six centimeter-wide black hole. And he has a plan to finally find it.
Science & Energy

A Black Hole May Be Orbiting Our Sun. This Guy Wants to Find It.

By Dan Robitzski

The experimental spacecraft China launched earlier this week successfully and safely landed Friday, paving the way for crewed space exploration.
Moon

China Lands Moon-Bound Spaceship After 3-Day Orbital Joyride

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors have an unusual new plan to develop a treatment for COVID-19: take antibodies from the patients who already recovered and mass-produce them.
Treatments

Doctors Are Cloning COVID Patients’ Antibodies For New Treatment

By Dan Robitzski

Democrat Party leaders Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi are working on a COVID-19 relief package that they're comparing to Roosevelt's New Deal.
Future Society

Congress Is Working on a Giant COVID-19 Aid Package

By Dan Robitzski

A team of neuroscientists just created a complete, three-dimensional map of a mouse brain that they say could be a game changer for researchers.
Biology

Scientists Plot 100 Million Cells to Map Full 3D Mouse Brain

By Dan Robitzski

While "immunity passports" have been thrown around as a possible way to gradually reopen society, a bioethics expert argues that it would be ill-advised.
Developments

Bioethicist: COVID-19 “Immunity Passports” Are a Bad Idea

By Dan Robitzski

After CDC scientists developed a comprehensive guide for how to safely re-open restaurants and public spaces, the White House buried it.
Developments

White House Secretly Buried CDC Guidelines on Reopening Country

By Dan Robitzski

On May 16, the U.S. Space Force will launch a mysterious X-37B space plane on its second-ever mission, which officials say will help NASA conduct research.
Space Force

The Space Force Is About to Launch a Mysterious Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

Health Department official Rick Bright filed a whistleblower complaint about officials in the Trump administration ignoring warnings about the pandemic.
Future Society

Whistleblower: Trump Repeatedly Ignored Coronavirus Warnings

By Dan Robitzski

NASA' Perseverance rover just found signs of ancient life in Australia, giving researchers hope that it's well-equipped to do the same on Mars.
Biology

NASA Mars Rover Detects Ancient Life… in Australia

By Dan Robitzski

New genetic analysis suggests that COVID-19 spread to the U.S. and Europe weeks or even months earlier than official reports say.
Viruses

Scientists: COVID-19 Spread Globally for Months Before We Noticed

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered bizarre stripes of storm clouds blanketing a brown dwarf "star" with an old technique that's relevant again thanks to new tech.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Discover Brown Dwarf Covered in Stripes

By Dan Robitzski

Tech CEO Stephen Wolfram says he's come up with a theory of everything, but physicists at large aren't convinced by his ideas.
Physics

Scientists Aren’t Buying a Tech CEO’s “Theory of Everything”

By Dan Robitzski

A new prototype device uses microwaves to generate plasma, showing howfuture jet engines could propel planes using just air and electricity.
Advanced Transport

Scientists Create Jet Engine Powered by Only Electricity

By Dan Robitzski