More from Dan Robitzski (Page 33)

A proposed NASA space telescope called HabEx would use a gigantic sail to filter out the light from distant stars while hunting new exiplanets.
Science & Energy

Scientists Want a Giant Folding Space Telescope to Find Earth 2.0

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey of the center of the Milky Way challenges what astronomers have long thought about how stars formed in the region.
Science & Energy

Astronomers May Have Been Wrong About The Milky Way’s History

By Dan Robitzski

Ad Astra CEO and former NASA astronaut Franklin Chang Diaz is building a plasma rocket engine that he thinks is our best bet to send people to Mars.
Mars

A Former NASA Astronaut Is Building a Plasma-Powered Mars Rocket

By Dan Robitzski

Apple's employee wellness program includes free DNA tests through Color, which can scan for things like cancer and heart disease.
DNA

Apple’s Employee “Wellness” Program Includes Free DNA Tests

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists just spotted MAMBO-9. The ancient galaxy's light just reached Earth after a 13 billion year-long journey through space.
Science & Energy

Scientists Spot One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever: MAMBO-9

By Dan Robitzski

For the first time, NASA built a complete map of the surface of a neutron star, giving astronomers a new resource as they try to understand the cosmos.
Science & Energy

Stare Into the Brutal Maw of This Barbarous Neutron Star

By Dan Robitzski

The AI research firm AI Now called for the ban of untested and biased technologies like facial recognition and emotion-detecting algorithms.
Facial recognition

Report: Facial Recognition Should Be Banned From Everyday Life

By Dan Robitzski

For the last six months, a highly-automated dairy farm has been floating off the coast of the Netherlands, providing city slickers with fresh milk.
Future Society

35 Cows Live on a Floating Dairy Farm Staffed by Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A true mad scientist bred 97 different kinds of broccoli and mapped their DNA. The verdict? all of them were "delicious."
Biology

A Researcher Grew 97 Kinds of Broccoli and Sequenced Their DNA

By Dan Robitzski

A new deepfake shows Trump announcing to the world that Jeffrey Epstein didn't kill himself. And the technology is getting good enough to be convincing.
Artificial Intelligence

Watch a Deepfaked Trump Say Epstein Didn’t Kill Himself

By Dan Robitzski

A new study reveals that extreme weather events have been linked, almost without fail, to the worsening effects of climate change.
Climate Change

Study: Many Extreme Weather Events Were Caused by Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Larry Page, Google co-founder and former CEO, has been quietly funneling millions of dollars into charities that fund flu vaccine research and distribution.
Google

The Co-Founder of Google Is Quietly Trying to Cure the Flu

By Dan Robitzski

New radar maps and digital models reveal a massive underground valley beneath Greenland, including a thousand-mile-long "Dark River."
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover “Dark River” Under Greenland

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla's general counsel, Jonathan Chang, left the company last week. That makes three lawyers and 16 executives to leave Tesla this year.
Tesla

Tesla’s Top Lawyers Keep Leaving

By Dan Robitzski

Creeps have used Ring cameras to hack into customers' homes, using the internet-connected cameras to spy on and harass families and children.
Hacking

Watch Terrifying Creeps Hack Ring Cameras and Spy on Families

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists thought they ruled out dark matter as the source of bizarre cosmic gamma rays coming from the core of the Milky Way. New evidence disagrees.
Science & Energy

MIT: Dark Matter At Our Galaxy’s Core May Be Blasting Gamma Rays

By Dan Robitzski

Makr Shakr, the company behind a robot bartender called Toni, says it will offer monthly stipends to displaced workers for every robot it sells.
Robotics

Robot Bartender Developer Wants to Pay the Humans It Replaces

By Dan Robitzski

The Canadian airline Harbour Air just successfully tested an electric plane for the first time, potentially marking a new era of clean travel.
Advanced Transport

New First: A Fully Electric Plane Just Flew for 15 Minutes

By Dan Robitzski

Toys "R" Us has opened two new stores after closing hundreds in 2018, and these ones are equipped with sensors that track every move shoppers make.
Internet Of Things

Smart Toys Often Contain Child-Endangering Security Flaws

By Dan Robitzski

The World Wildlife Fund published a report arguing that if we want to stop the worst impacts of climate change, world leaders need to take stronger action.
Climate Change

WWF: Climate Change Efforts Need “Dramatic Increase” in Response

By Dan Robitzski

GEDMatch, the DNA ancestry company that famously helped police track down a serial killer, just got bought by a genetic forensics firm.
DNA

Tech Firm That Develops Tools for Police Buys Massive DNA Database

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists wants to colonize and populate another world to protect humanity from Earth's eventualy demise or destruction.
Off-World

Scientists Are Planning a 1,000 Year Trip to Another Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Elizabeth Warren just announced a package of environmental protection policies focused on the ocean that she's calling the Blue New Deal.
Climate Change

Elizabeth Warren Announces Ocean-Protecting “Blue New Deal”

By Dan Robitzski

A team of bioethicists argue that it's high time GoFundMe better regulate its platform to keep out medical scammers and unregulated treatments.
Developments

Bioethicists: GoFundMe Is Profiting off Medical Scams

By Dan Robitzski

New York City plans to replace its infamous Riker's Island prison with four high-rise prisons spread throughout the NYC boroughs.
Future Society

NYC Is Planning Giant High-Rise Prisons

By Dan Robitzski

Waymo is now offering cusomters the chance to take rides in its self-driving taxis but without a human safety driver behind the wheel
Self-Driving Vehicles

Waymo Is Taking the Safety Drivers out of Its Autonomous Taxis

By Dan Robitzski

Iran is the latest country to propose its own state-run internet, a tool that would effectively end online freedom and crush protests.
Future Society

Iran’s President Wants to Build a State-Controlled Internet

By Dan Robitzski

Future studies researcher Roey Tzezana says workplace automation will mean the destruction of the middle class and the "end of the world as we know it."
Future Society

Futurist Predicts “The End of the World as We Know It”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists built a new remote acoustic survey tool to track wild frog populations. The best part is they decided to name it the FrogPhone.
Biology

Scientists Built a “FrogPhone” to Remotely Survey Frog Habitats

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists have a new guess for what triggers white dwarf stars to blow up in supernovae: tiny black holes made of dark matter growing in their cores.
Science & Energy

New Theory: Dark Matter Black Holes Are Detonating Stars

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk spent $100 million to buy seven homes in Los Angeles' pricey Bel-Air neighborhood in recent years, along with an estate near Tesla's HQ upstate.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Keeps Buying Mansions in a Particular Neighborhood

By Dan Robitzski

Over the last two years, almost 6,000 Uber passengers reported sexual assault. While the company has taken steps to stop it, it also downplays the problem.
Future Society

Uber Gets Thousands of Sexual Assault Complaints per Year

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists observed surprisingly complex behavior from a single-celled organism that strongly resembles active decisionmaking.
Biology

This Single-Celled Creature Is Weirdly Smart

By Dan Robitzski

Niantic, the company behind Pokémon Go, announced that it partnered up with Qualcomm to develop new augmented reality (AR) glasses.
Virtual Reality

The Company Behind Pokémon Go Is Making AR Glasses

By Dan Robitzski

23Mofang, a Chinese DNA test startup offering similar reports to 23andMe, makes scientifically-questionable claims in its results, raising privacy concerns.
Gene Editing

Chinese 23andMe Knockoff Gives Different Results From 23andMe

By Dan Robitzski

An American biotech firm claims it can slow or reverse human aging through gene-hacking, but the entire premise is scientificially questionable.
Gene Editing

Gene-Hacking Company Says It Can Slow Your Aging for $1 Million

By Dan Robitzski

A Roman Catholic priest launched a Vatican-themed Minecraft server that he hoped would be a haven from online toxicity. It was attacked immediately.
Future Society

Trolls Immediately Attack Vatican Minecraft Server

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers discovered 19 new galaxies that appear to be missing their dark matter. The discovery challenges our models of how galaxies form.
Science & Energy

19 Newly Discovered Galaxies Appear to Be Missing Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA-funded scientist Christoffer Heckman argues that some sort of new guidelines are needed to keep engineers from building autonomous weapons.
DARPA

DARPA Scientist: Engineers Must Stop Making Autonomous Weapons

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's exoplanet-hunting satellite TESS captured footage of a comet suddenly exploding in a bizarre phenomenon called a comet outburst.
Science & Energy

Watch NASA’s New Footage of a Comet Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

A comprehensive new analysis of 50 years' worth of medical data has linked heavy, frequent marijuana use with an increased risk of testicular cancer.
Cancer

New Analysis: Marijuana Seems to Be Linked to Testicular Cancer

By Dan Robitzski

China is taking DNA samples from its persecuted Uigher population to develop a troubling new form of genetic surveillance.
Gene Editing

China Is Using Blood From Minorities For Genetic Research

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers developed a new trick that will help them determine whether so-called Earth-like exoplanets actually have their own atmospheres.
Science & Energy

Scientists’ New Trick Can Tell if an Exoplanet Has an Atmosphere

By Dan Robitzski

New studies suggest that planet-wide dust storms and gigantic plumes called dust towers could have sucked up the planet's surface water.
Science & Energy

NASA Suggests Giant Dust Storms Blew Mars’ Water Into Space

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers stole the personal data of women who bought plus-size clothing, selling the records to online advertisers who can now target the victims.
Science & Energy

Hackers Stole, Sold Data of Women Who Bought Plus-Sized Clothes

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists recreated the bizarre activity of brain cells in tiny new chips, potentially leading to a new generation of artificial medical devices.
Neuroscience and Brain

Scientists Finally Build Artificial Brain Cells

By Dan Robitzski

The cops of San Luis Potosi, Mexico just announced plans to buy a Cybertruck fleet, making it the second police force interested in the vehucle.
Advanced Transport

Mexican Cops Pre-Order Fleet of Cybertrucks

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon just unveiled its new quantum computer cloud service, Braket, which will give developers a chance to test out their quantum applications.
Quantum Physics

Amazon Is Now Letting Anyone Run Programs on Its Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

NASA is about to test a prototype cosmic radiation-blocking vest by strapping it to a dummy and sending ti around the Moon.
Science & Energy

NASA Is Sending Dummies Around the Moon to Test Cosmic Radiation

By Dan Robitzski

Free dating apps and services owned by Match Group, which include Tinder, PlentyofFish, and OkCupid, don't screen users against the sex offenders registry.
Future Society

Tinder and OkCupid Don’t Screen For Sex Offenders

By Dan Robitzski

In an attempt to prevent bullying and discrimination, TikTok reportedly limits the reach of users with disabilities with discriminatory practices.
Future Society

TikTok Secretly Hid Videos by Fat, LGBTQ, Mentally Disabled Users

By Dan Robitzski

A new law in China will make it illegal to create or share deepfakes without properly disclosing that they're not real videos.
Artificial Intelligence

China Makes Deepfakes Illegal

By Dan Robitzski

The companies vying to be the first to launch a space hotel find themselves facing major regulatory and financial hurdles.
Off-World

The Race is Heating Up to Open the First Space Hotel

By Dan Robitzski

Roscosmos announced plans to build an observatory on its planned Moon base so that it can better spot potentially dangerous asteroids approaching Earth.
Science & Energy

Russia Wants to Build an Observatory on the Moon

By Dan Robitzski

After a TikTok video criticizing China's systematic anti-Muslim discrimination went viral, its creator found herself locked out of her account.
Future Society

TikTok Bans 17-Year-Old for Criticizing China

By Dan Robitzski

U.S. states are left to piece together safety regulations for self-driving car companies, and often they're not very strong.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Senator: Humans Could Be “Test Dummies” For Self-Driving Cars

By Dan Robitzski

The Defense Department released a new report detailing its goals and plans for creating cyborg soldiers by the year 2050.
Military

US Military Warns of “Augmented Human Beings”

By Dan Robitzski

Lee Se-dol, the Go champion who lost to DeepMind's AI Go player, announced that he's quitting professional Go because the algorithms are too good.
Artificial Intelligence

Human Go Champion Who Lost to AI Says Machines Cannot Be Defeated

By Dan Robitzski

Russian farmers strapped VR headsets onto their cows to see if pleasant virtual worlds would improve their milk. So far, all they know is the cows liked it.
Science & Energy

Russian Farmers Are Strapping VR Headsets to Dairy Cows

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just sent a torrent of letters warning there's no evidence that CBD use has the medical benefits that companies claim, and it's in fact dangerous.
Chemistry

FDA Cracks Down on CBD, Saying It Has “Real Risks”

By Dan Robitzski

A new U.N. climate report details how many countries have totally failed to curb their greenhouse gas emissions and argues that dire action is needed.
Climate Change

New UN Climate Report Calls the Future “Bleak”

By Dan Robitzski

A comprehensive new study confirms that the American life expectancy has been dropping for years and that the problem is broader than expected.
Studies

The American Life Expectancy Is Now Falling Due to Drugs, Suicide

By Dan Robitzski

A study suggests that there could be thousands of giant exoplanets and planets that form around and orbit a supermassive black hole.
Science & Energy

New Calculations: Black Holes Could Have Thousands of Planets

By Dan Robitzski

Google fired four employees who were helping lead the workforce's push to organize and form a union, prompting accusations of deliberate union-busting.
Future Society

Google Just Fired Four Union Organizers

By Dan Robitzski