More from Dan Robitzski (Page 32)

As the Wuhan coronavirus continues to spread, a prominent virologist predicts that it will be at least ten times worse than the 2003 SARS outbreak.
Developments

Virologist: China Virus Will Be At Least 10x Worse Than SARS

By Dan Robitzski

2019-nCoV, the virus behind a looming pandemic, has officially reached Europe. French officials confirmed the country and continent's first two cases.
Developments

The Mysterious Chinese Outbreak Just Reached Europe

By Dan Robitzski

As China struggles to keep a lid on the 2019-nCoV pandemic, it has now quarantined 12 cities and cancelled their public transportation.
Developments

China Has Now Quarantined 35 Million People to Prevent Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

Last month in China, dozens of people in the city of Wuhan fell ill with a new disease, a strain of the pneumonia virus, and officials worry it may spread.
Developments

A Strange Disease Is Sweeping China

By Dan Robitzski

The mysterious pneumonia-like virus that hit China last month has now spread to Japan and Thailand. Experts still aren't sure how.
Developments

China’s Mysterious Virus Spreads to Japan and Thailand

By Dan Robitzski

In an attempt to limit the spread of the pneumonia-like virus 2019-nCoV, the government in China is screening passengers on departing flights.
Developments

In China, Hazmat Teams Are Searching Flights For Deadly Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

In the face of a worsening public health crisis, the Chinese government is censoring social media and articles about the Wuhan virus.
Developments

China Censored Info About Growing Pandemic on Social Media

By Dan Robitzski

Now four cities in China are in lockdown quarantines to try and nip the coronavirus pandemic in the bud, trapping a total 20 million residents.
Developments

China Quarantines Three More Entire Cities to Fight Pandemic

By Dan Robitzski

According to a news bulletin, all travel out of Wuhan, China has been suspended in an attempt to contain the spreading 2019-nCoV virus.
Developments

China Quarantines Entire City Where Mystery Virus Outbreak Began

By Dan Robitzski

A team of researchers wants to make use of nuclear waste by converting it into extremely long-lasting diamond batteries that could power medical devices.
Nuclear Fusion

New Technique Turns Nuclear Waste Into “Diamond Batteries”

By Dan Robitzski

Rand Paul's bizarre tweet suggests that we're not creating climate change on Earth, but perhaps we should be on Mars or some exoplanet.
Off-World

Senator: Climate Change Is Fake. Also, Let’s Terraform New Worlds

By Dan Robitzski

A research facility that studies how cadavers decompose had a break in of hungry feral cats, which actually gave forensics experts new insights and tools.
Science & Energy

Feral Cats Break Into Research Facility, Eat Human Cadavers

By Dan Robitzski

A children's hospital being constructed in Dublin might implement facial recognition security cameras. The reasoning? To prevent babies from being stolen.
Facial recognition

Hospital: We Need Facial Recognition to Catch Baby Snatchers

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists is exploring a bizarre idea: finding a way to build structures, circuitry, and other materials out of living fungal architecture.
Biology

These Researchers Want You to Live In a Fungus Megastructure

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental NASA program is tinkering with the idea of building a Mars or Moon base out of living mushrooms that astronauts would grow onsite.
Moon

NASA Wants to Grow a Moon Base Out of Mushrooms

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists sequenced the entire giant squid genome, revealing new hints into how the unusual creature reached its huge size and developed a complex brain.
Biology

Researchers Finally Sequence Giant Squid’s Entire Genome

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's new instrument, NEID, can measure the mass of a distant exoplanet with three times the sensitivity of any other equipment out there.
Science & Energy

Here’s How NASA’s New Machine Weighs Exoplanets

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists working with DARPA developed a living concrete, teeming with bacteria, that resembles Jell-O. It can grow and regenerate itself when it breaks.
Science & Energy

Scientists Create “Living Concrete” That Can Heal Itself

By Dan Robitzski

Trump is displeased that Apple refused to give the FBI backdoor access into iPhone security, but the company already sends lots of data to law enforcement.
Future Society

Trump Demands That Apple Give Government Access to iPhones

By Dan Robitzski

For the second time, LIGO researchers detected gravitational waves given off by a merging pair of neutron stars, but the collision challenges their models.
Science & Energy

Scientists Detect Epic Neutron Star Collision

By Dan Robitzski

On Saturday, a man named Adam Gorlitsky, who is paralyzed from the waist down, broke a world record for finishing a marathon wearing a robotic exoskeleton.
Health & Medicine

Paralyzed Man Runs Marathon In Robotic Exoskeleton

By Dan Robitzski

China's world record, "alien-hunting" telescope, FAST, became fully operational on Saturday, quadrupling the amount of the universe astronomers can examine.
Science & Energy

China Finally Boots Up Colossal Alien-Hunting Radio Telescope

By Dan Robitzski

On opposite side of the Earth's core lie two massive, mysterious blobs of ultrahot ancient rock that have scientists locked in a decades-long disagreement.
Science & Energy

Geologists Baffled By “Massive Anomalies” at Edge of Earth’s Core

By Dan Robitzski

New research suggests that the Big Bang theory could be off: some assumptions about the early unvierse don't match the actual data.
Science & Energy

Another Astronomer Says the Big Bang Might Not Have Happened

By Dan Robitzski

When the Department of Veterans Affairs refused to pay for a disabled veteran's prosthetic legs, the company that provided the limbs came to repo them.
Prosthetics and Devices

Healthcare Company Repossesses Veteran’s Prosthetic Legs

By Dan Robitzski

In a letter to Senators, Ring confirmed at least four instances of employees abusing their power to watch customers' video footage.
Future Society

Amazon Employees Were Watching Ring Footage For Fun

By Dan Robitzski

NASA released a new panorama image of the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Aside from looking cool, it could help reveal how the galactic core operates.
Science & Energy

Check Out This Incredibly Beautiful New Image of Our Home Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

While the massive Australian fires were often treated as a local story, they could have massive, far-reaching effects on the global environment and climate.
Climate Change

The Huge Australian Fires Could Change the Entire Earth’s Climate

By Dan Robitzski

For the second time ever, scientists found a repeating radio burst from deep space. This time, it came from a galaxy that resembles the Milky Way.
Science & Energy

Astronomers Capture Repeating Radio Burst From Spiral Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Intense cosmic rays given off by short-lived stars are bombarding a nearby galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, from within.
Science & Energy

Intense Stellar Activity Is Ripping Apart a Nearby Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla may consider adding an anti-dooring feature to protect bicyclists by keeping doors locked until they pass.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk: Teslas Might Prevent Riders From Dooring Bicyclists

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists detailed how 143 countries could transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2050 or possibly even sooner.
Energy

Scientists: Total Transition to Clean Energy Possible by 2050

By Dan Robitzski

Pentagon officials signed a memo earlier this week urging members of the military to stop using consumer DNA tests, calling them a security threat.
DNA

Pentagon Urges Military Members to Skip At-Home DNA Tests

By Dan Robitzski

It's becoming increasingly likely that Japan's decision will be to dump the radioactive water stored at the Fukushima power plant into the ocean.
Environment

Japan’s Radioactive Water Will Go Into the Ocean or Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

The Venezuelan government is now paying people to start using its official altcoin by airdropping crypto to public employees, retirees, and the military.
Cryptocurrency

Here’s Why Venezuela Is Giving Retirees Free Altcoins

By Dan Robitzski

The radioactivity from a nuclear blast in space could disable crucial satellites, so the military is trying to find a way to scrub them clean.
Military

The Military Is Unprepared for Nuclear Strikes on Satellites

By Dan Robitzski

Russia says that it has an operational hypersonic weapon — the world's first — and plans to mount it on an intercontinental ballistic missile.
Future Society

Russia Becomes First Nation with an Operational Hypersonic Weapon

By Dan Robitzski

Ten full years of idiots, breathless fanboys, and everyone else who did their part to nip all forms of progress in science and technology in the bud.
Future Society

The Decade in Dumbasses: The Idiots, Morons, and Rubes Who Made the 2010s Insufferable

By Dan Robitzski

MIT scientists developed a system of lasers that works like a remote ultrasound system: it can peer into a patient's body without touching them.
Developments

MIT Scientists Can Look at Your Insides From a Distance

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just shared new information on the bizarre class of exoplanets that they'e named "super-puffs" due to their cotton candy-like fluffiness.
Science & Energy

These Rare Exoplanets Have the “Density of Cotton Candy”

By Dan Robitzski

Medical researchers gave Alzheimer's patients LSD to see how it affected their cognition. The treatment seemed safe, paving the way for future studies.
Chemistry

Doctors Are Giving Alzheimer’s Patients LSD

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's floating nuclear power plant, Akademik Lomonosov, is now operational and generating power for the town of Pevek.
Nuclear Fusion

Russia’s Floating Nuclear Power Plant Began Generating Electricity

By Dan Robitzski

An engineer strapped propellers onto a robot vacuum, creating the ultimate abomination: a Roomba that kicks up more dust than it cleans.
Robotics

This Madman Built a Flying Robot Vacuum Cleaner

By Dan Robitzski

Baltimore police will spend half of 2020 surveilling the entire city with a network of spy planes, putting everyone under constant monitoring.
Future Society

Baltimore Police Plan to Monitor the Whole City With Spy Planes

By Dan Robitzski

During Thursday's debate, Bernie Sanders suggested cutting the military's bloated budget and putting it towards a more important fight: climate change.
Climate Change

Bernie Sanders: Spend Money on the Climate Instead of Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released an image of a "cosmic candy cane" in the center of the galaxy. The unusually shaped cloud is likely linked to active star formation.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Cosmic Candy Cane” in Milky Way Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

An Army research center patented bizarre boots that generates electricity every time a soldier takes a step, giving them a new way to power their gear.
Energy

The Army Wants to Generate Electricity Inside Soldiers’ Boots

By Dan Robitzski

Ocean acidification is literally eating away at sharks' skin, destroying the layer of tiny scales that helps them swim and hunt.
Environment

Our Acidic Oceans Are Eating Away at Sharks’ Skin

By Dan Robitzski

A major investigation reveals two terrifying truths: your phone is constantly tracking and sharing your location, and you have no control over it.
Future Society

Phone Location Tracking Is Way Worse Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers taught an artificially intelligent robot to cook and serve hot dogs by training it in a virtual setting and then an actual grill.
Robot Dogs

Finally, a Smart Robot That Can Cook and Serve Us Hot Dogs

By Dan Robitzski

Engineers built a soft robotic bug capable of surviving harsh punishment like being flattened, stomped, and folded. It's creepy, but a huge step forward.
Robotics

This Robotic Bug Was Designed to Survive Swatting

By Dan Robitzski

A new CDC study suggests that one in two American adults will be considered obese by 2030. It's a growing problem that affects low-income workers the most.
Studies

Half of America May Be Obese by 2030. Here’s Why That Matters for Society.

By Dan Robitzski

The internet has a shockingly large environmental impact, and data centers are giving off an increasing amount of carbon emissions. Something has to give.
Climate Change

In the Face of Climate Change, the Internet Is Unsustainable

By Dan Robitzski

If companies are given free rein to scrape the ocean floor for precious minerals, entire undiscovered ecosystems will be snuffed out.
Environment

This Plan to Mine the Ocean Floor May Erase Whole Ecosystems

By Dan Robitzski

CIMON-2, the new version of the International Space Station's (ISS) bizarre, spherical robot assistant, should be better at picking up on emotional cues.
Robotics

The International Space Station’s Robot Got an Emotional Upgrade

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a bizarre, tiny circuit that changes as electricity flows through it that they say could help them construct an artificial brain.
Brain Implants

Scientists: Tiny Silver Wires Demonstrate “Brain-Like” Properties

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is pouring big money into quantum research in a bid to catch up to other world leaders' quantum computer programs.
Quantum Physics

Russia Desperately Wants a Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently spotted yet another gigantic storm on Jupiter's south pole, bringing the total count up to seven swirling vortices.
Science & Energy

Check Out This Hypnotic Array of Colossal Storms on Jupiter

By Dan Robitzski

Unless it's particularly old, your car is likely spying on you, sending an unsettling amount of information about you and your behavior to the manufacturer.
Advanced Transport

Cars Are Secretly Spying on Us

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that Mars auroras — the Red Planet's version of the Northern Lights, are far more common than previously thought.
Science & Energy

Majestic Auroras Sweep the Martian Sky Almost Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is full of third-party merchants selling food and other stuff they found in the garbage. It turns out it's not hard to sneak through the system.
Food

Scammers Are Selling Dumpster-Dived Food on Amazon

By Dan Robitzski

Google fired a fifth employee who had been trying to organize the comapny's workforce, though the tech giant denies that was the root issue.
Future Society

Google Reportedly Fires Fifth Worker For Organizing Unionization

By Dan Robitzski

NASA just released a new image, the clearest yet, of 2I/Borisov, the second ever interstellar visitor we've seen enter our solar system.
Science & Energy

NASA Releases New Image of Interstellar Visitor

By Dan Robitzski

New Orleans is the latest city to be targeted by ransomware hackers, but after a weekend-long emergency response, it seems to be back to normal.
Hacking

New Orleans Declares State of Emergency Due to Hackers

By Dan Robitzski