More from Dan Robitzski (Page 29)

Tesla is reaching out to the landlords of its dealerships and service centers to try and negotiate down its rent payments.

Tesla Is Having Trouble Paying Its Rent

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon put out a call for vendors to develop a quantum system that could track spacecraft traveling too far away to use GPS.

Quantum Physics

The Pentagon Wants Quantum Sensors to Track Faraway Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese government recently imposed new restrictions on coronavirua research, and now must approve all studies on the outbreak's origin.

China Is Censoring Research Into the Origin of the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Ford filed an unusual patent last week that would actually keep rideshare passengers from getting paired with a smelly car.

Advanced Transport

Bizarre Ford Patent Lets You Filter Rideshare Cars by Smell

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just granted an emergency use authorization to a new test that scans saliva samples for the coronavirus, potentially making testing far safer.

FDA Approves Test That Scans Your Spit for Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

A research team failed to find a widely-accepted dark matter particle candidate in the Milky Way galaxy, causing a stir among disagreeing astrophysicists.

Shocking Research Threatens Our Understanding of Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

When he declared a national emergency on March 13, Trump made a lot of grand promises. One month later, most have been broken.

A Brief List of Trump’s Broken Coronavirus Promises

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers think that a bizarre exoplanet called TOI-849b is the stripped core of a gas giant that for some reason or another lost its atmosphere.

Science & Energy

Bizarre Exoplanet Might Be a Gas Giant That Lost its Gas

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Fauci says it's "obvious" that the U.S. government could have saved a great many lives if it had acted sooner to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Fauci: Acting Sooner Would “Obviously” Have Meant Fewer Deaths

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors are using data from a wearable to train an AI algorithm that can tell when someone's sick with COVID-19 even before noticeable symptoms start.

Artificial Intelligence

This Smart Ring Uses AI to Spot COVID-19 — Before Symptoms Begin

By Dan Robitzski

Whistleblower Edward Snowden has a grim prediction for the future: world leaders will exploit the pandemic to claim new power and not relinquish it later.

Snowden: Governments Will Use the Coronavirus to Seize More Power

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Anthony Fauci predicts that recovered COVID-19 patients will likely be immune to future infections because the coronavirus hasn't mutated much.

Top Doctor: Getting COVID-19 Once Probably Means You’re Immune

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates suspects that there will be another major viral outbreak every 20 years. But also that we'll emerge from the current pandemic more prepared.

Bill Gates: There’s Gonna Be a Pandemic “Every 20 Years or So”

By Dan Robitzski

The CDC recently deleted a bizarre guideline from its website. There's no evidence hydroxychloroquine fights COVID-19, but the CDC had suggested it anyway.

CDC Deletes Recommendation for the Drug Trump’s Been Pushing

By Dan Robitzski

A new study predicts that climate change will kill so many oceanic organisms this decade that the entire ecosystem could fall apart.

New Study Predicts the Ocean Ecosystem Will Collapse This Decade

By Dan Robitzski

Because enough people took self-isolation guidelines seriously, the U.S. now expects significantly fewer coronavirus-linked deaths over the next few months.

Good News: Social Distancing Is Working

By Dan Robitzski

New reports suggest that the U.S. military and federal government knew about the coronavirus outbreak as early as November.

US Intelligence Warned of “Cataclysmic” Coronavirus in November

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary reseach suggests that areas with higher levels of air pollution are also experiencing a higher death rate among COVID-19 patients.

The Coronavirus Is Deadlier in Places With Bad Pollution

By Dan Robitzski

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's top infectious disease experts, suggests that we should leave handshakes in the past.

Dr. Fauci: “I Don’t Think We Should Ever Shake Hands Ever Again”

By Dan Robitzski

During a press briefing for the White House coronavirus task force, Trump threatened to pull funding for the WHO, but backtracked when he was challenged.

Trump Threatens to Pull Funding for the World Health Organization

By Dan Robitzski

In the U.S., the coronavirus has disproportionately killed those in black communities, illustrating the dire impacts of the country's racial inequalities.

The Coronavirus Is Disproportionately Killing Black People

By Dan Robitzski

There's no good evidence suggesting that hydroxychloroquine helps fight COVID-19. But Trump, who invested in the drug's manufacturer, keeps pushing it.

There’s No Good Evidence That Hydroxychloroquine Fights COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

When the pandemic hit, researchers working in Antarctica had a particularly difficult time finding a safe way to make their way home.

Science & Energy

The Pandemic Stranded Them in the Worst Place: Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

An unexpectedly large hole in the ozone layer formed over the Arctic because of an unusually cold winter and an extreme polar vortex.

A New Hole Is Forming in the Ozone Layer Over the Arctic

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are colliding electrons with their antimatter counterparts, positrons, in order to hunt and study a subatomic particle called the Z' boson.

Physicists Are Crashing Matter into Antimatter to Hunt a New Boson

By Dan Robitzski

In Basalt, Colorado, a neighborhood built its own virtual power plant, letting them generate — and share — clean energy as needed.

A Colorado Neighborhood Runs on a Self-Reliant, Clean Energy Grid

By Dan Robitzski

Zoox just laid off all of the contractors it had working as safety drivers for its self-driving cars because of California's shelter-in-place rule.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Self-Driving Car Company Lays Off All Its Human Safety Drivers

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

Science & Energy

Scientists Are Spying on Google Searches to Track the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea may face a second wave of COVID-19 cases as international travel brings the coronavirus back into the country.

Hong Kong, Taiwan Face New COVID Outbreaks From Europe, America

By Dan Robitzski

Scammers are capitalizing on coronavirus pandemic by setting up fake testing sites to steal identities or hoarding crucial medical supplies.

Scammers Dressed as Doctors Set Up Fake COVID Testing Sites

By Dan Robitzski

$Eight years after it was shared online, a highly-controversial proof claiming to verify the abc conjecture is going to be published in an academic journal.$

Science & Energy

Mathematicians Are Shocked That This Paper Got Published

By Dan Robitzski

Xenobots mark a major step forward in biological robots. The tiny, short-lived creatures are designed in a virtual world then 3D printed with living cells.

Scientists Are Printing Living “Xenobots” out of Biological Cells

By Dan Robitzski

NASA built an autonomous robot named BRUIE that may be able to hunt for signs of life on distant ocean worlds like Europa.

Science & Energy

Here’s the Robot NASA Wants to Use to Hunt Aliens on Ocean Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

CNN anchor Chris Cuomo explained on the air that his case of COVID-19 has been keeping him up at night and making him hallucinate.

CNN Host Says COVID-19 Gave Him “Phantasmagorical Experiences”

By Dan Robitzski

To get consumers to change their attitudes toward fossil fuels, experts suggest covering gas pumps with the same warnings we see on cigarettes.

Climate Experts Suggest Tobacco-Like Warnings on Gas Pumps

By Dan Robitzski

Zoom, the increasingly-popular video conferencing program, has extremely flawed cybersecurity in place. Companies like SpaceX have already banned it.

Science & Energy

Experts Warn That Hackers Can Use Zoom to Take Over Your Computer

By Dan Robitzski

Remember those ventilators that Elon Musk delivered? They're actually sleep apnea machines, and doctors suggest they could help spread the coronavirus.

Oops: Elon Musk Donated the Wrong Kind of Ventilator

By Dan Robitzski

Anonymous intelligence officials say that there's evidence China systematically downplayed the size and severity of its coronavirus outbreak.

Secret U.S. Intelligence Report: China Hid The Size of the Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

That public health guideline to stay six feet apart from others is based on 90-year-old-reseach. We now know viruses can spread much farther.

MIT Professor: Guidelines to Stay Six Feet Apart Aren’t Enough

By Dan Robitzski

New research on a bizarre nuclear reaction could explain why some stars explode like gigantic stellar thermonuclear bombs.

Science & Energy

Poison in the Hearts of Stars Can Make Them Explode

By Dan Robitzski

On Monday, General Electric factory workers staged a mass walk-off to compel the company to start mass-producing medical ventilators.

Robots and Machines

GE Workers Protest: We Want To Build Ventilators, Let Us Build Ventilators

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors considered treating more severe cases of COVID-19 by splitting one ventilator among four patients. But that would put all four in greater danger.

Experts Say Putting Multiple Patients on One Ventilator Is Unsafe

By Dan Robitzski

New parents report a number of unexpected challenges, chaos, and confusion as a result of giving birth during the coronavirus pandemic.

Experts Say Childbirth During the Pandemic Can Be Traumatic

By Dan Robitzski

Just because you're holed up at home for the time being doesn't mean you can't help out with important scientific research.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Call on Quarantined Citizens to Hunt for Galaxies

By Dan Robitzski

With companies operating remotely than ever, bosses, managers, and executives are flocking to spy with disturbingly-invasive workplace surveillance tech.

Your Bosses Are Trying To Spy On You Now More Than Ever

By Dan Robitzski

With large gatherings banned — and ill-advised anyway — eSports may be the best way to scratch your competitive itch for the time being.

Goddamn, I Guess We Need to Get Into eSports Now

By Dan Robitzski

As climate change renders parts of the world inhospitably hot, the best move may be to dig down and build underground cities.

Experts: We Should Hide From the Apocalypse in Underground Cities

By Dan Robitzski

Emergency physician Joshua Lerner says that America's response to the coronavirus pandemic is so bad it reminds him of the Chernobyl disaster.

ER Doctor: US Bungling COVID Response Like Soviets Did Chernobyl

By Dan Robitzski

The Great Barrier Reef just suffered its third mass coral bleaching event in three years, forcing authorities to make grim predictions for its future.

Meanwhile, The Great Barrier Reef Had a Horrible Bleaching Event

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Space Force is scheduled to conduct its first launch on Thursday afternoon. It's expected to deliver the final part of a new communication network.

The US Space Force Is About to Finally Leave the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

After revisiting 34-year-old data. NASA made a shocking discovery: Uranus is leaking its gassy atmosphere out into space.

Science & Energy

NASA Data Shows Something Leaking Out of Uranus

By Dan Robitzski

The coronavirus pandemic has been a challenge for schools. But once teachers work out the kinks, remote education could revolutionize how we learn science.

Scientists: Remote Education Could Transform How We Teach Science

By Dan Robitzski

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

3D Printing Food in Certain Shapes Tricks People Into Eating Less

By Dan Robitzski

There's so much misinformation on the coronavirus pandemic swirling around online that even the famous fact-checking organization Snopes is overwhelmed.

Even Snopes Has Been Overwhelmed by Coronavirus Misinformation

By Dan Robitzski

Materials researcher Will Srubar argues that in order to build a sustainable future, scientists need to develop living, self-growing materials.

This Professor Wants to Grow Entire Buildings Out of Bacteria

By Dan Robitzski

After an Air Force base declared a public health emergency, the SpaceX mission scheduled to launch from there on March 30 is on "indefinite" hold.

SpaceX Delays Launch Because of the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Impossible Foods CEO Says he Could Create Brand-New Types of Meat

By Dan Robitzski

The Indian government just announced that the country will enter a total lockdown for three weeks to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

India Enters Total Lockdown for Three Weeks

By Dan Robitzski

The longfin inshore squid can alter its own genetic code on the fly, and new research shows its the first animal to do so outside of its cells' nuclei.

Science & Energy

Scientists Discover That a Squid Can Edit Its Own Genetic Code

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers found a superconducting metal inside metoerite fragments, suggesting the advanced material is forming on its own out in space.

Science & Energy

Scientists Find Superconductor Inside Giant Meteorite

By Dan Robitzski

An urban design researcher predicts that the coronavirus pandemic will lead the rich to hide away in gated communities while public infrastructure suffers.

Professor: Pandemic Will Force the Rich Into Hiding

By Dan Robitzski

Many countries hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic are tapping citizens' phone data to track the outbreak — and enforce quarantine.

A Growing Number of Countries Tap Phone Data to Track COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk, once again, is inadvertently undermining the mass effort to combat the coronavirus pandemic. This time, he said that N95 masks are "a pain."

Elon Musk is a Public Health Risk

By Dan Robitzski

Research teams around the world are trying to develop blood tests for the coronavirus, but so far no one has figured it out.

Blood Tests Could Improve the Coronavirus Fight — If They Work

By Dan Robitzski

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