More from Dan Robitzski (Page 4)

Zoom fatigue, or feeling exhausted from having your camera on at work, is a real phenomenon that should be taken seriously, according to new research.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Demonstrate That Yes, Video Call Meetings Are Exhausting

By Dan Robitzski

A new class of potentially habitable exoplanets called Hycean worlds considerably broaden scientists' options in the search for alien life.
Science & Energy

Scientists: Life May Thrive on Ocean Worlds Far Larger Than Earth

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists watching octopuses interact with each other found that they "throw" shells and dirt at each other, including a female rejecting an amorous male.
Biology

Scientists: Octopuses Love to Fling Objects at Each Other

By Dan Robitzski

12-year-old Benyamin Ahmed has made nearly $400,000 after programming and selling a series of NFTs of pixelated doodles called "Weird Whales."
Science & Energy

12-Year-Old Earns $400,000 Selling NFTs to Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

TikTok is full of videos attempting a dangerouns "milk crate challenge," and doctors are pleading with them to knock it off.
Developments

Doctors Warn That “Milk Crate Challenge” Is Causing Grievous Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

Val Kilmer Can’t Speak — But His AI Voice Replacement Is Truly Uncanny
Artificial Intelligence

Val Kilmer Can’t Speak — But His AI Voice Replacement Is Truly Uncanny

By Dan Robitzski

The Chinese tech and e-commerce giant Alibaba is rolling out delivery robots to replace error-prone, smoke-break-taking human couriers.
Robotics

Alibaba Says Delivery Robots Are Great Because They Don’t Smoke on the Job

By Dan Robitzski

Manhattan offices are adding gardens, terraces, and rootop beehives in order to entice workers who have gotten accustomed to working from home.
Future Society

Offices Are Trying to Tempt Workers Back With Live Bees for Some Reason

By Dan Robitzski

A new survey revealed shockingly high rates of substance use disorders, primarily for alcohol and marijuana, among young adults with ADHD.
Health & Medicine

Study: One in Two Young Adults With ADHD Also Had a Substance Use Disorder

By Dan Robitzski

In order to keep Fukushima's radioactive water from impacting the fishing industry, the nuclear power plant's operators plan to dig an undersea tunnel.
Energy

Japan Is Digging an Undersea Tunnel To Dump Fukushima’s Radioactive Water

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists stumbled upon a giant, surprisingly healthy mass of coral that's survived in the Great Barrier Reef for hundreds of years.
Environment

Scientists Shocked by Discovery of Enormous, Healthy Coral

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found that drinking too little water makes the body undergo changes that raise the risk of heart failure, but staying hydrated helps prevent it.
Studies

Study: Drinking Water Prevents Heart Failure

By Dan Robitzski

Manatees are dying off en masse as a result of worsening pollution and ecosystem collapse off the coast of Florida that took away their food supply.
Climate Change

Manatees Are Starving en Masse as Florida’s Ecosystem Crumbles

By Dan Robitzski

When SpaceX ships rocket hardware or launches a rocket, it has to shut down the local highway. Now The Boring Company wants to dig a new tunnel.
Off-World

Elon Musk Wants To Dig a New Tunnel Near his Texas Spaceport

By Dan Robitzski

The coronavirus pandemic is once again killing over 1,000 people in the United States every single day, a grim reminder that the pandemic is still raging.
Developments

COVID Is Once Again Killing More Than 1,000 Americans Every Day

By Dan Robitzski

NASA astronaut Megan McArthur warns space tourists that life in orbit is no walk in the park, and that surviving takes real "grit."
NASA

NASA Astronaut Warns Wealthy Space Tourists: Space Requires “Grit”

By Dan Robitzski

A gigantic iceberg almost crashed into and destroyed a major ice shelf in Antarctica, according to satellite imagery of the close call.
Climate Change

Watch a Floating, 500 Square Mile Iceberg Nearly Crash Into Antarctica

By Dan Robitzski

GM just recalled every single Chevrolet Bolt ever sold due to a fire hazard caused by manufacturing defects in their batteries.
Advanced Transport

GM Just Recalled Every Chevy Bolt Ever Made

By Dan Robitzski

After NASA's Mars rover Perseverance messed up trying to collect rock samples, the agency is trying again somewhere else.
Mars

NASA Has a New Plan After Mars Rover Fumbles Rock Collection

By Dan Robitzski

Army researchers found a way to genetically alter disease-spreading mosquitoes to be infertile, hopefully presenting a tool to limit disease transmission.
Military

The Army Gene-Hacked Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes To Make Them Infertile

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists inserted a human gene responsible for fat production into potato plants to grow more food without taking up more space.
Agriculture

Scientists Add Human Fat Gene Into Potatoes to Make Them Grow Huge

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists created a sunlight-reflecting "metafabric" to keep people cool without air conditioning in the face of climate change.
Science & Energy

Scientists Develop “Metafabric” To Help us Survive Extreme Heat

By Dan Robitzski

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice
Neuroscience and Brain

Stunning New Brain-Fat Burning Connection Discovered in Mice

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk Says You’ll “Most Likely” Be Able To Beat His Tesla Bot in a Fight
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says You’ll “Most Likely” Be Able To Beat His Tesla Bot in a Fight

By Dan Robitzski

Investigators Scrambling To Track Down $97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange
Science & Energy

Investigators Scrambling To Track Down $97 Million Stolen From Japanese Crypto Exchange

By Dan Robitzski

The Space Force met its initial deadline to get its act together. Now it has to figure out what, exactly, it's supposed to be doing.
Space Force

US Space Force: Successfully Assembled. Next up: Making Itself Useful.

By Dan Robitzski

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts
Treatments

New Diabetes Treatment Involves a Robot “Docked” Inside Your Guts

By Dan Robitzski

A huge rain storm, the first in recorded history to hit Greenland's ice sheet, caused a record-breaking ice melt last week.
Climate Change

Red Alert: It Rained in Greenland’s Ice Sheet for the First Time in Recorded History

By Dan Robitzski

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells
Viruses

Stunning 3D Images Show How the Coronavirus Infects Our Cells

By Dan Robitzski

mRNA booster shots for COVID-19 may be available in the US starting next month. Many are still unvaccinated, but you should consider getting yours anyway.
Viruses

Why You Might Want an mRNA Booster Shot, In One Simple Graphic

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists managed to 3D print a "viable" glioblastoma tumor so that they can develop better, more effective treatments for the deadly brain cancer.
Brain

Scientists 3D Print Living, Viable Brain Tumor, to Practice Killing It

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX's constellation of Starlink satellites are responsible for 1,600 near-collisions every week, and that number is going to keep growing.
SpaceX

SpaceX’s Starlink Satellites Cause 1,600 Near-Crashes in Orbit Every Week

By Dan Robitzski

A team of Cambridge psychologists have demonstrated that magic tricks can fool birds, based on a snack-based version of the shell game.
Science & Energy

Magic Tricks Can Fool Birds, Say Scientists With Nothing Better To Do

By Dan Robitzski

Vaccine misinformation on TikTok is spreading like, well, something viral.
Developments

How Are These Horrible Vaccine TikToks Fooling So Many People?

By Dan Robitzski

A pharmacist was arrested for selling 125 blank CDC COVID vaccine cards to anti-vaxxers who wanted to fake their documents.
Viruses

Pharmacist Busted for Selling Real COVID Vaccine Cards to Anti-Vaxxers

By Dan Robitzski

The latest Boston Dynamics video shows the humanoid robot Atlas jumping and flipping. Here's a cut of all the times it fell or tripped.
Boston Dynamics

Here’s a Therapeutic Video of Those Boston Dynamics Robots Busting Ass

By Dan Robitzski

A new analysis of the environmental impact of the 1987 ban on CFCs found that it bought us crucial time to stave off the worst of climate change.
Climate Change

Study: A 1987 Chemical Ban Saved the Planet

By Dan Robitzski

The Army announced plans to develop and launch a series of high-altitude devices that can spy on and jam enemy communications.
Military

The Army Plans To Build Balloons That Can Jam Communications From Above

By Dan Robitzski

Walmart's online shop is full of bizarre listings that demonstrate a total lack of quality control or oversight, leaving customers wading through the muck.
Future Society

Here’s Why Walmart.com Is Selling Weed Flags and Fetish Gear

By Dan Robitzski

NASA Scientists tried to build a better map of the Milky Way galaxy just to discover a sharp break in one of its spiral arms.
Science & Energy

Milky Way Has Broken Arm That Never Healed, Astronomers Say

By Dan Robitzski

As climate change progresses, hypoxic or "dead" zones of dangerously-low oxygen off the coastline will become bigger and more common.
Climate Change

The Ocean Is Losing Oxygen. This Scientist Says More “Dead Zones” Will Soon Follow.

By Dan Robitzski

Synchron CEO and founder Thomas Oxley explains how his neural implant startup beat Neuralink in the race to achieve FDA approval.
Neuroscience and Brain

How a Small Neurotech Startup Beat Elon Musk’s Neuralink to Human Studies

By Dan Robitzski

The California state legislature might legalize human composting in the state, reducing the environmental toll of traditional burial or cremation.
Future Society

New California Law Would Allow Human Composting

By Dan Robitzski

After Perseverance tried and failed to collect rock samples on Mars, NASA insists that the blame lies squarely on the rocks' shoulders.
Mars

After Mars Rover Fails to Collect Rock, NASA Blames Rock

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suspect that there could be past or present microbial life beneath the surface of Mars that survives thanks to radioactivity.
Science & Energy

NASA Scientists Suggest Nuclear-Powered Life Under Mars Surface

By Dan Robitzski

India's latest rocket launch ended in critical failure when the third stage failed to ignite, marking the country's first failed launch since 2017.
Off-World

India’s Latest Rocket Launch Ends in “Catastrophic Failure”

By Dan Robitzski

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Quantum Physics

Google Claims To Create Time Crystal Inside Quantum Computer

By Dan Robitzski

Aubrey de Grey, a prominent scientist trying to expand the human lifespan, has been accused by multiple women of a disturbing pattern of sexual harassment.
Prosthetics and Devices

Anti-Aging Personality Aubrey de Grey Accused of Sexual Harassment

By Dan Robitzski

The hacker who stole $600 million in crypto from The Poly Network has started to return half the money, claiming they pulled off the heist "for fun :)"
Cryptocurrency

Hacker Steals $600 Million in Crypto, Gets Scared and Returns It

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers probing Twitter's controversial image-cropping algorithm found that it's prejudiced in more ways than previously thought.
Artificial Intelligence

Twitter’s Image-Cropping Algorithm Was Shockingly Racist, Ableist, Ageist

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX will launch a digital billboard into space. But it's so small that you'll never be able to notice that it's up there.
SpaceX

That SpaceX Orbital Billboard Is So Small You’ll Never See It

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists developed a rudimentary active camouflage system that adjusts color in real-time and tested it on a tiny chameleon robot.
Robotics

Scientists Create Chameleon Robot That Can Blend in With Its Surroundings

By Dan Robitzski

AI development firm OpenAI just revealed Codex, a tool that can take commands written in English and turn them into programming.
OpenAI

OpenAI’s New Algorithm Can Turn Written Commands Into Code

By Dan Robitzski

A new glass called AM-III is so hard it can scratch the surface of diamonds and could be used in new ultra-sturdy solar panels.
Science & Energy

Scientists Create Glass That’s as Strong as a Diamond

By Dan Robitzski

As wildfires blaze through the drought-stricken American west, government agencies at all levels can't attract enough recruits to batle them.
Science & Energy

There Are So Many Wildfires That the US Can’t Find Enough Firefighters

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists uncovered fossils of a fearsome new pterosaur species that strongly resembles a dragon from European mythology.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Dinosaur Fossil That Seems Suspiciously Like a Dragon

By Dan Robitzski

Is blockchain tech alive? No, but scientists argue it may as well be if we adjusted our definition of what represents life.
Biology

Scientists Say Blockchains “Fit Some Definitions of Life”

By Dan Robitzski

A medical device for heart failure called the HeartWare Ventricular Assist Device likely contributed to thousands of deaths, and the FDA didn't step in.
Prosthetics and Devices

Defective Heart Pump Appears Have Killed Thousands of Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Nearly a week after it was supposed to launch, Boeing still isn't sure what's behind the propulsion system issues with its Starliner prototype.
Boeing

Something Is Really Screwed Up With Boeing’s Starliner Prototype

By Dan Robitzski

A comprehensive UN report warns that we have delayed climate action for too long to prevent climate devastation, but we can keep it from getting worse.
Climate Change

UN Says It’s “Code Red for Humanity” in Alarming Climate Change Report

By Dan Robitzski

The elusive "jetpack guy" has been spotted buzzing around near Los Angeles International Airport again, though reports are unconfirmed.
Advanced Transport

That Jetpack Guy Is Reportedly Buzzing Around Airports Again

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists discovered a massive gas filament in the Milky Way, and they can't tell whether or not it's part of the galaxy or its own entity.
Science & Energy

Scientists Discover Huge, Never-Before-Spotted “Structure” in Milky Way Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered a source of greenhouse gas emissions in the melting permafrost of Siberia, an alarming development for the global climate.
Climate Change

Scientists Warn of Methane “Time Bomb” in Siberia

By Dan Robitzski

A former Tesla employee was awarded just over $1 million in a closed-door hearing over complaints of racism, discrimination, and unfair punishment at work.
Tesla

Tesla Pays Former Employee $1 Million for Calling Him Horrific Racial Slur

By Dan Robitzski