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Orthopedic surgeons have begun offering leg lengthening — long offered as a corrective procedure for congenital defects — to insecure, short men.

Want to Be Taller? Radical Surgery Permanently Extends Your Legs.

By Dan Robitzski

If investors and business leaders, especially those in the energy sector, continue to ignore climate change, they might tank the economy.

Research: Extreme Weather Could Crash the Economy

By Dan Robitzski

Chess is one of the fastest-growing games on the video game streaming platform Twitch as hundreds of thousands tune in to watch masters strategize.

Yasssss Queen: Chess Is Finally Becoming the Next Big eSport

By Dan Robitzski

More patients are getting so-called paramedical tattoos to mask their injuries or scars instead of expensive plastic surgery.

Paramedical Tattoos: Ink Artists’ Latest Innovation to Aid Body Trauma

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities arrested Xu Zhiyong, a legal scholar and activist who called on President Xi Jinping to resign for mishandling the COVID-19 outbreak.

China Locks Up Activist Who Criticized State’s COVID-19 Response

By Dan Robitzski

It turns out that a thin coating of powdered rust could serve as a killer, lightweight shield against deadly cosmic radiation.

It Turns Out Rust Is… a Great Shield for Deadly Space Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

Tourists are ignoring safety measures when going to see endangered gorillas, spreading deadly diseases and putting the animals in greater danger.

Endangered Gorilla Community Ravaged by Exotic Man-Borne Disease

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists has nearly dug deep enough inside Earth to tap into a reservoir of supercritical fluid, which could serve as a limitless power supply.

This Team Wants to Capture Unlimited Energy From Inside the Earth

By Dan Robitzski

On Friday, Chinese authorities only reported 14 new fatalities linked to COVID-19. But the sudden drop isn't necessarily the good news it appears to be.

Here’s Why There Are So Few Reported COVID-19 Fatalities Today

By Dan Robitzski

The European Space Agency releaed a troubling time-lapse video showing a gigantic iceberg splitting off of Antarctica and drifting away.

Watch a Las Vegas-Sized Iceberg Break Off Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

An tech company published a website, purportedly meant to help journalists write better, that's using AI to publish believable fake news articles.

Artificial Intelligence

This Site Uses AI to Generate Fake News Articles

By Dan Robitzski

An executive order mobilized the entire U.S. military to prepare for a potential COVID-19 pandemic, should the outbreak ever progress to that point.

US Military Issues Executive Order to Prevent COVID-19 Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Once again, experts are warning that consumer DNA tests will eradicate people's privacy and make them vulnerable to workplace discrimination.

Experts: Corporations Could Do Terrible Things With Your DNA

By Dan Robitzski

An attempt to make his car "invisible" using the license plate "NULL" actually put a security researcher on the hook for $18,000 of other people's tickets.

Science & Energy

This Guy Got the License Plate “NULL” and It Was a Total Disaster

By Dan Robitzski

The coronavirus outbreak can cause extreme symptoms like coughing up blood or lung infections, but milder cases are more similar to the flu.

These Are the Symptoms of Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

YouTube deleted hundreds of cryptocurrency videos earlier this week. Now it says they're back and called the whole thing a mistake.

YouTube Calls Mass Deletion of Cryptocurrency Videos a Mistake

By Dan Robitzski

General Motors is currently lobbying the federal government for permission to test — on public roads — self-driving cars that don't have steering wheels.

Self-Driving Vehicles

General Motors Wants Self-Driving Cars to Lose the Steering Wheel

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, the Australian government began its plan to shoot down 10,000 wild camels that were threatening local communities in their hunt for water.

Australian Snipers Are Shooting 10,000 Camels From Helicopters

By Dan Robitzski

MIT released a massive report about the university's ties to Jeffrey Epstein. Along with publishing the report, MIT also suspended engineer Seth Lloyd.

MIT Suspends Another Professor for Epstein Ties

By Dan Robitzski

Four newly-discovered sharks use their fins to crawl across coral reefs — and can also walk across short stretches of dry land.

Sharks Are Evolving to Walk on Land

By Dan Robitzski

The mysterious Chinese pneumonia-like coronavirus that originated from Wuhan, China, has officially reached the US, with one confirmed case in Washington.

Mysterious, Deadly Chinese Virus Officially Reaches the US

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese officials confirmed that the pneumonia-like virus that first emerged at a Wuhan seafood market can be transmitted from person-to-person.

Chinese Virus Is Spreading Between Humans, Prompting Outbreak Fears

By Dan Robitzski

A genetic analysis of the virus behind the Chinese pandemic reveals that it likely originated from a snake at Wuhan's seafood market.

Mysterious Chinese Virus May Have Spread From Snakes

By Dan Robitzski

For some unknown reason, people who were born blind don't develop schizophrenia, and scientists have differing ideas as to why.

Health & Medicine

People Born Blind Don’t Develop Schizophrenia, Baffling Doctors

By Dan Robitzski

Lexus president Koji Sato says the company will unveil it's Autopilot-like assisted driving technology, Highway Teammate, which enables hands-free driving.

Advanced Transport

Lexus: New Autopilot-Like Feature Will Allow Hands-Free Driving

By Dan Robitzski

Newly released documents suggest that there are serious safety flaws in the Tesla Autopilot system, which was activated during a fatal crash.

Tesla Driver’s Autopilot Often Swerved Toward the Same Barrier. One Day, It Killed Him.

By Dan Robitzski

New research shows that marijuana use makes people more susceptible to believing a false memory, a troubling development for the legal system.

Neuroscience and Brain

New Research: Marijuana Can Lead to False Memory Formation

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization announced a new official name for the coronavirus that recently emerged from China: Covid-19.

The WHO Finally Gives the Coronavirus an Official Name

By Dan Robitzski

Multiple units within a Hong Kong apartment building have confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV, and officials think that the coronavirus is spreading through pipes.

Hong Kong Officials Fear Deadly Virus Is Spreading Through Pipes

By Dan Robitzski

NASA equipped the 2020 Mars rover with a powerful laser, capable of vaporizing rocks. It's an extreme way of learning what they're made of.

Science & Energy

Next NASA Mars Rover Will Sport a Rock-Vaporizing Laser

By Dan Robitzski

WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the coronavirus outbreak could get worse if countries don't nip it in the bud.

WHO Leader Warns of Worldwide Coronavirus Outbreaks

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers built a kind of generator that gives off a powerful burst of energy whenever it's hit by falling rain.

Scientists Invent Device to Generate Electricity From Rain

By Dan Robitzski

A new bill in the House of Representatives would lay the groundwork for a national grid of electric vehicle charging stations.

Advanced Transport

Congress Proposes Nationwide Network of Electric Car Chargers

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that cancer-linked mutations can occur years before any symptoms appear, potentially giving doctors a new tool to diagnose it early.

New Research: Cancer Symptoms Can Appear Years Before Diagnosis

By Dan Robitzski

After a mix of conflicitng reports, Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who warned about the coronavirus outbreak in its earliest days, died early Friday morning.

Whistleblower Doctor Who Warned of Viral Outbreak Dies From It

By Dan Robitzski

The government of China has ordered officials in Wuhan to round up and quarantine any sick residents in makeshift shelter camps.

China to Round up Infected in “Mass Quarantine Camps”

By Dan Robitzski

Axiom Space, the company that's developing a privately-owned "space hotel" module for the ISS, shared more details on when it plans to launch.

Plans Are Moving Ahead to Open a Space Hotel Attached to the ISS

By Dan Robitzski

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres shared a dire warning that the planet is descending into conflcit and instability, but a better future is possible.

UN Secretary-General: “A Wind of Madness Is Sweeping the Globe”

By Dan Robitzski

The coronavirus rapidly spreading around the world almost certainly jumped to humans from animals. Zoonotic viruses like this can be more dangerous.

The Coronavirus Started in Animals. That Makes it More Dangerous.

By Dan Robitzski

In the parts of China where medical face masks are mandatory, some find that the facial recognition systems they use to unlock their phones don't work.

Medical Face Masks Thwart China’s Omniscient Facial Recognition

By Dan Robitzski

Americans who recently returned from China are putting themselves under a voluntary quarantine for coronavirus. Some are facing dangerous rumors.

Here’s What It’s Like to Live Under Coronavirus Quarantine

By Dan Robitzski

A new pair of AR smart glasses don't project an image onto its lenses. Instead, it uses lasers to shoot an image directly into the eyeball.

Virtual Reality

These AR Smart Glasses Shoot Lasers Directly Onto Your Retina

By Dan Robitzski

Health experts recently warned that the coronavirus 2019-nCoV is more contagious than they originally predicted, and they still don't know how much so.

Scientists: The Coronavirus May Be More Contagious Than Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities are using high-tech tools to track and limit the 2019-nCoV coronavirus outbreak such as lasers that can spot people with fevers.

China Deploys Infrared Sensors to Detect Infected Citizens in Public

By Dan Robitzski

Li Wenliang, a doctor in Wuhan, China, was censored after he warned med school classmates about the coronavirus. Now he's sick in the hospital.

After China Censored This Wuhan Doctor, He Caught the Coronavirus

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists believe they've identified a case where someone infected another person with the coronavirus 2019-nCoV before ever displaying symptoms.

New Research: People Without Symptoms Can Spread Coronavirus [UPDATED]

By Dan Robitzski

In a grim milestone, the coronavirus has now taken more American lives than Al Qaeda did on the September 11 terror attack in 2001.

Scientists Warn: You Can Catch Coronavirus More Than Once

By Dan Robitzski

As of Monday, the death toll for the 2019-nCoV coronavirus is now higher than that of the 2002 SARS outbreak, though its fatality rate is much smaller.

Coronavirus Has Now Killed More People in China Than SARS Did

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors in Bangkok have been treating coronavirus patients with a mix of HIV and flu drugs, potentially giving health officials a new tool for the outbreak.

Doctors Are Treating Coronavirus With Cocktail of HIV, Flu Drugs

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers identified a major flaw in the U.S. government's plan to store nuclear waste: groundwater can eat away at storage containers and cause leaks.

Nuclear Waste Storage Containers Break Down When Exposed to Water

By Dan Robitzski

Several climate change simulations predict drastically worse warming per level of greenhouse gas emissions, suggesting the problem is worse than thought.

Several Climate Change Simulations Just Snapped Into Doomsday Mode

By Dan Robitzski

An updated NASA animation reveals what the world would look like if all of Earth's oceans, rivers, and lakes slowly vanished.

Science & Energy

Amazing Vid Shows How Earth Would Look If All Its Oceans Dried Up

By Dan Robitzski

The CDC announced that it is quarantining 195 American citizens who recently returned from China to flee the coronavirus outbreak.

CDC Quarantines 195 US Citizens Who Fled China Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. Army is considering a fire control system for its next-gen rifle that would only let soldiers fire if they were guaranteed to hit their targets.

Artificial Intelligence

US Army Considering Rifle That Only Fires When Hit Is Guaranteed

By Dan Robitzski

A Brutal ‘Dead Star’ Is Stuck In a Whirlpool of Warped Spacetime

A Brutal ‘Dead Star’ Is Stuck In a Whirlpool of Warped Spacetime

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre video shows how Chinese police have started using drones to scream at people who go outside without a safety mask about the coronavirus.

In China, Drones Are Yelling at People About Coronavirus [UPDATED]

By Dan Robitzski

The World Health Organization reversed its previous decision and declared the coronavirus outbreak a "public health emergency of international concern."

WHO Declares The Coronavirus Outbreak a Public Health Emergency

By Dan Robitzski

The Air Force's model of Lockheed Martin's F-35 fighter jet has awful accuracy, according to a new DoD assessment, in part because of its cracked casing.

Robots and Machines

The US’s $428 Billion F-35 Fighter Jet Can’t Even Shoot a Target

By Dan Robitzski

A cruise ship was stranded off the coast of Italy as officials investigated — and eventually dismissed — a potential case of the coronavirus 2019-nCoV.

A Cruise Ship Was Stranded at Sea Due to Coronavirus Risk

By Dan Robitzski

There's a decent chance that two satellites will collide this evening, potentially releasing a cloud of hazardous debris into orbit.

Science & Energy

Two Satellites May Collide Today, Exploding Catastrophically

By Dan Robitzski

The U.S. government fast-tracked the development of a vaccine for 2019-nCoV, the coronavirus that emerged from China last month. But it could take a year.

Scientists Are Desperately Working on a Coronavirus Vaccine

By Dan Robitzski

A breakdown of who is getting sick and dying from the coronavirus outbreak shows that elderly people and those who were already sick are getting hit harder.

The Coronavirus Outbreak is Most Dangerous for the Elderly

By Dan Robitzski

To cut down on risky human contact, doctors in Washington State are using robots and video conferences to monitor their coronavirus patient.

American Doctors Are Treating a Coronavirus Patient With a Robot

By Dan Robitzski

Australia now has five confirmed cases of 2019-nCoV, meaning the virus has officially spread from China to a fourth continent.

Reports of Coronavirus Outbreak Hit Every Inhabited Continent

By Dan Robitzski

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