More from Dan Robitzski (Page 30)

As people are urged to stay in their homes, one man in Cyprus decided to use a remote-controlled drone to walk his dog around town.
Drones

Watch a Man Walk a Dog Using a Drone

By Dan Robitzski

A straightforward technique can split one ventilator off so four patients can simultaneously get treated, should the need arise. But it's never been tested.
Viruses

Doctors Might Have to Hook Four Patients to the Same Ventilator

By Dan Robitzski

A group of roughly 300 nuclear fusion researchers put together a massive report of goals and priorities for making fusion power a reality.
Energy

Scientists Call for Fusion Power Plant in the United States

By Dan Robitzski

As SpaceX continues to launch more of its Starlink satellites, new research suggests hundreds will be visible from Earth with the naked eye.
Science & Energy

Astronomer: SpaceX Satellite Swarm Will Be Visible With Naked Eye

By Dan Robitzski

South Korea immediately mobilized against the coronavirus outbreak while the U.S.'s official response was to downplay the risk.
Viruses

South Korea Crushed the Coronavirus as the U.S. Floundered. Why?

By Dan Robitzski

The Coronavirus Pandemic Drastically Reduced Carbon Emissions
Viruses

The Coronavirus Pandemic Drastically Reduced Carbon Emissions

By Dan Robitzski

With more social gatherings happening over video conferences, we're seeing gnarly snack time close-ups. Thankfully, Microsoft AI can edit out eating sounds.
Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft AI Can Now Edit Your Snacking Sounds out of Your Video Chats

By Dan Robitzski

The narrative itself is a work of fiction, but the biological mechanisms and medical risks that it describes are very real.
Viruses

Here’s a Grisly Description of a Worst-Case Coronavirus Infection

By Dan Robitzski

Now that many workplaces and schools are operating remotely, America's terrible broadband access is revealing major societal inequalities.
Science & Energy

America’s Flimsy Broadband Has Workers, Schoolchildren Isolated

By Dan Robitzski

In a last-resort move to free up the InSight Mars rover's digging probe, NASA engineers programmed the rover to thwack it with a shovel.
Mars

NASA Fixes Mars Lander By Telling It to Hit Itself With a Shovel

By Dan Robitzski

Google has instructed full-time employees to work remotely. But contractors aren't allowed to, revealing a troubling class divide. h
Developments

Google Won’t Let Its Army of Contractors Work Remotely

By Dan Robitzski

A new poll shows that while the majority of Republicans trust what Trump says about the coronavirus, most Americans in general do not.
Viruses

Most Americans Don’t Believe Anything Trump Is Saying Right Now

By Dan Robitzski

Because of a surge in demand, Amazon warehouses will only be processing medical supplies and other essentials for the next few weeks.
Developments

Amazon Warehouses Will Only Process Medical Supplies, Essentials

By Dan Robitzski

Police in Spain are using drones to broadcasting messages that urge people to go home and quarantine themselves.
Drones

Spanish Police Using Drones to Yell at People Breaking Quarantine

By Dan Robitzski

According to Uber and Lyft drivers who had their accounts deactivated over drunk driving, passengers filed false accusations to score a refund.
Advanced Transport

Uber Riders Are Accusing Drivers of Drunk Driving for Free Trips

By Dan Robitzski

When an Italian hospital started to run out of ventilator valves, 3D printing firms came in to make some more on the spot.
3D Printing

An Overwhelmed Italian Hospital Is 3D Printing Replacement Parts

By Dan Robitzski

Videos from Italian cities currently under lockdown show neighbors entertaining each other by singing and playing music from their balconies.
Developments

Quarantined Italians Are Singing, Playing Music on Balconies

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, Trump declared a state of national emergency over the coronavirus outbreak currently spreading throughout the country.
Viruses

United States Declares National Emergency Over the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study on ancient mollusk fossils, a day on Earth used to be half an hour shorter and a year was a full week longer.
Science & Energy

It’s Not You: Scientists Confirm Days Are Actually Getting Longer

By Dan Robitzski

A very small study found that some patients who recover from the coronavirus could face long-term lung damage and reduced lung capacity.
Viruses

After the Coronavirus, Some Patients Face Ongoing Lung Damage

By Dan Robitzski

The CDC presented four models for the future of the coronavirus outbreak. The worst-case scenario looks grim, but there's still time to fix it.
Viruses

CDC: In Worst-Case Scenario, Coronavirus Could Kill 1.7M Americans

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers spotted a 13 billion year-old blazar given off by the most ancient supermassive black hole to be discovered yet.
Science & Energy

Astronomers: Here’s This Incredibly Ancient Supermassive Black Hole We Found

By Dan Robitzski

Even in spite of the coronavirus pandemic, China has remained on track to launch its planned mission to Mars later this year.
Science & Energy

China Powers Through the Coronavirus to Launch a Mars Mission

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new internal report, developing the rocket meant to bring crewmembers to the Moon in 2024 has NASA years behind and billions over budget.
NASA

NASA’s Own Report Admits Its Non-SpaceX Rocket Is a Disaster

By Dan Robitzski

Depending how they measure it, scientists get vastly different answers for the mass of the North Star. A rare cosmic fusion could be the problem.
Science & Energy

Scientists Still Can’t Tell How Big the North Star Is

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization formally declared that the coronavirus outbreak is a pandemic, citing a concerningly weak response from some countries.
Viruses

WHO: Coronavirus Outbreak Now Officially a Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered an exoplanet called WASP-76b with an extreme atmosphere: iron is vaporized in the day and rains back down at night.
Environment

Astronomers Found a Brutal Hell Planet Where It Rains Liquid Iron

By Dan Robitzski

There are a number of disturbing parallels between the coronavirus COVID-19 and the Spanish flu — and leaders seem to have ignored lessons from the past.
Viruses

In the Coronavirus, Historians See Echoes of Past Pandemics

By Dan Robitzski

Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue announced a definitive ranking of all the "ringed planet" emojis out there, based on which looked most like Saturn.
NASA

Former NASA Scientist Absolutely Shreds Planet Emojis

By Dan Robitzski

After a nation-wide stdudent contest, NASA has selected "Perseverance" as the name for its next Mars rover, set to launch later this year.
Mars

NASA’s New Mars Rover Officially Has a Name

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to sequence the entire genome of the axolotl, a salamander capable of regenerating injured body parts, and hope to use it in people.
DNA

Scientists: Salamander DNA Could Regenerate Human Body Parts

By Dan Robitzski

With a speaker and four microphones, a drone was able to echolocate and map out its surroundings similarly to how bats do it.
Drones

Engineers Built a Drone That Echolocates Like a Bat

By Dan Robitzski

We've tracked the total death toll over time of 2019-nCoV, the coronavirus that originated in China last month. The graph will be updated as we learn more.
Developments

Here’s the Growing COVID-19 Death Toll in One Chilling Graph

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers found a way to turn biowaste, specifically the inedible cores of jackfruit and durian, into high-density ultracapacitors for storing energy.
Energy

Scientists Are Storing Energy Using Uneaten Fruit

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just took their first stab at curing a genetic condition that causes blindness early in life through CRISPR gene-hacking.
Gene Editing

CRISPR Scientists Hack Patient’s Genes in Bid to Cure Blindness

By Dan Robitzski

While the WHO's prediction for a two percent coronavirus mortality rate mostly held up, the numbers recently climbed to about 3.4 percent.
Viruses

The Global Coronavirus Mortality Rate Is Climbing

By Dan Robitzski

Physicists think they've figured out how to build quantum circuits that behave like entangled black holes, which would be able to teleport information.
Physics

Scientists Are Building a Quantum Teleporter Based on Black Holes

By Dan Robitzski

Uber sent out a memo to drivers urging them, among other things, to stay home if they feel sick. But because drivers aren't employees, it's not realistic.
Viruses

Uber Tells Drivers to Stay Home If They Have the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

More reports are emerging of people who already recovered from the coronavirus catching it twice, but it's possible that there were errors in their tests.
Viruses

More People Seem to Have Caught the Coronavirus Twice

By Dan Robitzski

A draft proposal, if enacted, would force vendors selling phones, tablets, or earbuds in the European Union to use replaceable batteries.
Energy

The EU Might Make Personal Electronics Use Replaceable Batteries

By Dan Robitzski

In a disturbing move, government officials will need clearance from the White House in order to give any statement about the COVID-19 coronavirus.
Developments

The White House Is Censoring Its Top Infectious Disease Expert

By Dan Robitzski

To test Twitter's verification and election security systems, a high schooler created a fake Congressional candidate. Twitter verified it right away.
Future Society

Twitter Verifies Fake Congressional Candidate Invented by Teen

By Dan Robitzski

Republican and Democrat lawmakers seem to be in agreement that the Trump administration hasn't put nearly enough effort into a coronavirus response plan.
Viruses

Trump’s Grasp of the Coronavirus Outbreak Seems Weak

By Dan Robitzski

Overwhelmed and overworked nurses in Wuhan, China, the city where the coronavirus outbreak began, published a cry for help from the rest of the world.
Developments

In Open Letter, Wuhan Nurses Cry for Global Help [UPDATED]

By Dan Robitzski

The Lancet just retracted a passionate call for help from two Chinese nurses claiming to fight the coronavirus in Wuhan after learning they originally lied.
Developments

Chinese Nurses Retract Plea for Aid in Prestigious Medical Journal

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, scientists identified a protein molecule in a meteorite. And they say they that it didn't come from Earth.
Chemistry

Scientists Discover Protein in a Meteorite

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built a neural net that connected artificial brain cells to living biological ones, which signalled back and forth over the internet.
Neuroscience and Brain

Artificial and Biological Neurons Just Talked Over the Internet

By Dan Robitzski

The ongoing coronavirus outbreak that's spread around the world over comes with a lot of confusing terminology and vocab, so we wrote a glossary.
Viruses

Here’s a Glossary for the Ongoing Coronavirus Outbreak’s Vocab

By Dan Robitzski

Space Force Lt. General David Thompson clarifies what, exactly, the new military branch does, and how it plans to work with private companies.
Science & Energy

Space Force Working “Pretty Closely With Elon Musk and SpaceX”

By Dan Robitzski

The pharma company Moderna Inc. just shipped a batch of experimental coronavirus vaccine to federal researchers, and tests could begin by April.
Viruses

Drugmaker Ships First Batch of Experimental Coronavirus Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals a bizarre link: on days that solar storms mess with the magnetic field, more gray whales beach themselves.
Solar Power

Solar Storms May Cause Whales to Crash Into Beaches

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists built a vaccine that protected mice from SARS. Now they think it could help in the fight against COVID-19.
Viruses

This Years-Old Vaccine May Protect Against COVID-19

By Dan Robitzski

The French Health Ministry announced that France no longer has confirmed cases of the coronavirus COVID-19: one patient died but all the others recovered.
Developments

French Officials Say Country Has Eliminated COVID-19 Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

As crewed missions to space venture deeper and deeper, two scientists argue that space agencies ought not to ignore astronauts' human needs.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Unfortunately, Astronauts Will Need to Bone in Space

By Dan Robitzski

As countries struggle to contain the coronavirus, global economies and the stock market are starting to take notable hits.
Viruses

The Coronavirus Is Now Tanking the Stock Markets

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers and ethicists are once again pushing back against AI-enabled sex robots marketed as a replacement for human relationships.
Robotics

Researcher Warns That Sex Robots May Cause Psychological Damage

By Dan Robitzski

The 2019-nCoV pandemic that began as a viral outbreak in Wuhan, China has rapidly spread to new countries. Here's how it progressed over time.
Developments

Here’s a Timeline of How China’s Viral Outbreak Spread Worldwide

By Dan Robitzski

Fifty years later, scientists debunked the idea that dinosaur footprints left on the ceiling of an Australian cave were left by one walking upside down.
Science & Energy

No, Researchers Conclude, This Dinosaur Did Not Walk Upside Down

By Dan Robitzski

A virtual anime stripper, Projekt Melody, has taken the internet by storm. It's also piqued the interest of virulently-misogynist incels.
Future Society

Meet the Virtual, Anime Camgirl the Internet’s Most Toxic Men Are Obsessed With

By Dan Robitzski

The University of Tehran unveiled the latest iteration of its humanoid robot: Surena IV. Now it's capable of drilling holes and holding phones for selfies.
Robotics

Video Shows Iran’s Humanoid Robot Drill Through Wall, Snap Selfie

By Dan Robitzski

MIT researchers have a new plan to scout out and divert killer asteroids before they pose a threat. It boils down to knocking them off course with a rocket.
Science & Energy

MIT Proposes New Plans for Deflecting Killer Asteroids

By Dan Robitzski

A group called the Earnest Project claims it took DNA samples from world leaders who went to the World Economic Forum in Davos. It's planning an auction.
Gene Editing

Privacy Activists Plan to Auction Off Trump, Other World Leaders’ DNA

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's intelligence agency reportedly sent agents to insepct undersea internet cables around Dublin, a major tech hub, causing fears over wiretapping.
Science & Energy

Russian Intelligence Is Snooping Around Undersea Internet Cables

By Dan Robitzski

Liu Zhiming, director of the Wuhan Wuchang Hospital, died from a COVID-19 infection while trying to treat the massive number of patients in the city.
Viruses

Hospital Director Dies in City Where the Coronavirus Originated

By Dan Robitzski