More from Dan Robitzski (Page 44)

The ISS is about to test a new algae bioreactor that turns carbon dioxide to food and breathable oxygen. If it works, it could allow deep space missions.
International Space Station

The ISS Now Has an “Algae Bioreactor” Generating Oxygen and Food

By Dan Robitzski

Cornell scientists discovered a bacterial gene that makes them resistant to last-resort antibiotics. They hope it will help doctors screen for superbugs.
Bacteria

Sneaky Bacteria Can Swap Genes, Making Them Immune to Antibiotics

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that extended trips to space are causing astronauts' brains to fill with excess fluid and swell, potentially damaging their eyesight.
Brain

Bad News, NASA: Astronauts’ Brains Are Filling With Liquid

By Dan Robitzski

New research reveals that when Coca-Cola funds nutrition research, it retains the right to review and kill studies that would look bad for the company.
Health & Medicine

Coke Funded Nutrition Research — and Killed Anti-Sugar Results

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that the edge of a tectonic plate off the coast of Portugal may be splitting in half, causing powerful underground earthquakes.
Science & Energy

This “Peeling” Tectonic Plate Could Cause Catastrophic Earthquakes

By Dan Robitzski

Brain scans of experienced Pokemon fans revealed a distinct region of the brain responsible for recognizing characters from the franchise.
Science & Energy

Scientists Identify “Pokémon Region” in Gamers’ Brains — Seriously

By Dan Robitzski

Last month, the Air Force tested a new anti-missile laser weapon that it hopes to equip onto fighter jets by 2021. For now, it's still too big.
Future Society

The Air Force Just Tested a Laser Weapon for Fighter Jets

By Dan Robitzski

European scientists recently tested an unfathomably powerful laser. Next year, they expect to use it to develop new cancer treatments and study supernovas.
Physics

The World’s Strongest Laser is About to Simulate a Supernova

By Dan Robitzski

A growing body of evidence suggests that people who dabble in all sorts of fields are better at predicting the future than narrowly-focused experts.
Future Society

Specific People Are Weirdly Good at Predicting the Future

By Dan Robitzski

A new Microsoft patent shows an Xbox controller with a live Braille display to help visually impaired gamers get the full experience of a game or live chat.
Prosthetics and Devices

Microsoft Patented an Xbox Controller With a Braille Display

By Dan Robitzski

In order to fight the spread of anti-vaxxer misinformation, Instagram is developing a pop-up that will appear next to dangerous medical claims.
Health & Medicine

Instagram May Combat Anti-Vaxxer Misinformation With Pop-up Ads

By Dan Robitzski

As deepfakes and AI-generated "photos" become more common, we all need tools to discern fact from fiction. A new website came up with tips and a test.
Artificial Intelligence

This Site Tests Whether You Can Spot AI-Generated Faces

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists figured out how to 3D print a functional "lung" made of inflatable air sacs that can oxygenate blood just like a real lung.
3D Printing

New Video Shows 3D Printed Lung “Breathing”

By Dan Robitzski

Gaia, an ESA satellite charged with plotting the course of the stars, just discovered three new asteroids orbiting the Sun at a peculiar angle.
ESA

ESA Satellite Accidentally Discovered Three New Asteroids

By Dan Robitzski

In a medical first, doctors saved a stabbing victim's life by performing open-heart surgery in the street because he wouldn't have survived to the hospital.
Medical

Medical First: Doctor Performs Open Heart Surgery in the Street

By Dan Robitzski

Hubble scientists just assembled a dizzying composite image made of 16 years of Hubble Space Telescope observations that includes 265,000 galaxies.
Off-World

Tiny Specks Zoom Into Beautiful Galaxies In Amazing Hubble Image

By Dan Robitzski

A Stanford scientist says that "hearables," devices that communicate with our brains through our ears like smart hearing aids, are coming soon.
Brain

Stanford Scientist Says In-Ear Gadgets Will Monitor Our Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists at LIGO just observed the gravitational waves given off by a black hole as it consumed a neutron star for the first time.
Black Holes

Scientists Just Detected a Black Hole Devouring a Neutron Star

By Dan Robitzski

As cobalt mines run low, scientists think they could start harvesting it from the ocean. They have a plan to get enough for over 500,000 Tesla batteries.
Advanced Transport

Ingenious Gadget Could Harvest Battery Material From the Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

Research suggests that two drugs may improve communication skills in people with autism. But the seemingly-conflicting results mean more research is needed.
Neuroscience and Brain

Controversial Research: Two Drugs May Reduce Autism Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

A neural net hooked up to a monkey brain was tasked with triggering individual neurons. It did so with bizarre, surreal images.
Artificial Intelligence

A Neural Net Hooked Up to a Monkey Brain Spat Out Bizarre Images

By Dan Robitzski

Former Google employee Tristan Harris says that your smartphone isn't listening in on you. It doesn't have to because Google already knows everything.
Google

Ex-Googler: Company Has “Voodoo Doll, Avatar-Like Version of You”

By Dan Robitzski

A new website uses Google's AI to churn out poetic couplets. The results are sometimes nonsensical, but occasionally prescient.
Google

We Used Google’s New AI to Generate Angsty Poetry About the Future

By Dan Robitzski

Health-focused apps can sell sensitive personal information to whomever they please, and a new study shows that many do so without telling users.
Health & Medicine

Apps to Help Quit Smoking Are Selling Your Data

By Dan Robitzski

Asteroid samples gathered by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa contain water-rich minerals, suggesting that asteroid impacts could bring water to planets.
Off-World

A Japanese Probe Just Found Water on an Asteroid

By Dan Robitzski

The FDA just issued new black box warnings, the most severe that it can, against sleeping pills' dangerous sleep walking side effects.
Sleep

FDA: Ambien Is Making People Kill Themselves While Asleep

By Dan Robitzski

The Department of Homeland Security is going to start DNA testing people who cross into the U.S. seeking asylum next week.
DNA

Homeland Security Will DNA Test People Seeking Asylum

By Dan Robitzski

In 2024, China may launch a robotic space probe to gather and return samples from a nearby asteroid. The mission aims to learn how asteroids form.
Off-World

China Is Planning a Mission to Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook probably didn't get the reaction it expected when it unveiled updates to its dating service: instead of clapping, the crowd sighed and groaned.
Future Society

Facebook’s New Dating Feature Prompted Audible Groans

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists may have uncovered a way to reverse the developmental disorder Angelman syndrome, but the treatment would involve gene-hacking fetal brains.
Brain

Injecting Fetal Brains With CRISPR Could Cure Genetic Conditions

By Dan Robitzski

Bird just began a monthly subscription service in San Francisco and Barcelona, where people get their own scooter for a month instead of hunting one down.
Advanced Transport

Bird Announces Monthly Scooter Subscription Service

By Dan Robitzski

A new AI algorithm can create photorealistic images of people's bodies from scratch. It could automate models out of a job, but also be misused to mislead.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazing AI Generates Entire Bodies of People Who Don’t Exist

By Dan Robitzski

It's about to be Winter on Pluto. When it is, scientists predict that Pluto's entire atmosphere will condense into a layer of frost.
Off-World

In 11 Years, Pluto’s Atmosphere Will Be Completely Frozen Solid

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese ride-hailing startup Shenma Zhuanche bought billboards in New York City's Times Square to shame Tesla over faulty cars.
Tesla

A Chinese Startup Got 3 Times Square Billboards to Diss Tesla

By Dan Robitzski

In 2029, the asteroid 99942 Apophis will fly past Earth close enough to look like a shooting star. NASA is planning ahead to learn as much as possible.
Off-World

When This Asteroid Zips by Earth, Scientists May Hitch a Ride

By Dan Robitzski

Right now, AI can't be considered conscious. But should it someday get to that point, some experts argue we should lay out algorithms' civil rights now.
Artificial Intelligence

These Professors Are Arguing That AI Should Get Animal Rights

By Dan Robitzski

A new study says that based on Facebook's current numbers, dead people's accounts will outnumber the living in about 50 years.
Future Society

In 50 Years, Dead People Will Make up Most of Facebook’s Users

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists Plan to 3D Print Muscular Tissue on the Space Station
Off-World

Scientists Plan to 3D Print Muscular Tissue on the Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

To reconcile the recently-confirmed, faster rate of universal expansion, researchers suggest that the cosmos may be younger than they previously assumed.
Off-World

The Universe Might Be a Billion Years Younger Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Moleculin Biotech, a company that conducts clinical research for cancer treatments, found a way to speed up the process by moving its research to Poland.
Health & Medicine

Expensive US Drug Trials Are Pushing Pharma Research Overseas

By Dan Robitzski

Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis wants to make sure that AI is built to serve, not conquer humanity, and wants to make sure important choices aren't automated.
Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Rabbi Fighting Back Against AI Armageddon

By Dan Robitzski

No matter how cute or emotionally-savvy some robots may seem, experts warn that it's an illusion. Artificial intelligence simply isn't that sophisticated.
Robotics

Expert Warns Against Forming Emotional Attachments With Robots

By Dan Robitzski

A scientist argues that the sheer volume of potentially habitable planets and moons coupled with the existence of water in space makes life inevitable.
Off-World

Scientist: “Alien Life Now Seems Inevitable and Possibly Imminent”

By Dan Robitzski

Next week, the European Space Agency will live-tweet an exercise where volunteers play out how a hypothetical asteroid impact might unfold.
Off-World

The European Space Agency Will Live-Tweet a Mock Asteroid Impact

By Dan Robitzski

New data from the Hubble Space Telescope all-but confirms past findings that the rate of the universe's expansion has accelerated over time.
Off-World

Hubble Data: The Universe Is Expanding Faster and Faster

By Dan Robitzski

A lawyer argues that we should set up international agreements that would let us nuke an incoming asteroid before it's too late.
Off-World

Lawyer: Make a Rule Saying We Can Nuke Apocalyptic Asteroids

By Dan Robitzski

DARPA announced plans to invest in space-traveling droids that could repair high-altitude satellites, which would drive down the cost of new satellites.
Off-World

The Pentagon Wants to Build Satellite-Repairing Droids

By Dan Robitzski

A new app built by Princeton researchers can monitor your smart speaker and other IoT devices to track how much of your info they're sending out.
Robots and Machines

New App Tells You When Your Smart Speaker Is Spying On You

By Dan Robitzski

Surgeons just used the first autonomous surgery robot, a self-guiding catheter that could navigate its way through a pig's heart.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Surgeons Just Sent a Tiny, Autonomous Bot Into a Heart Valve

By Dan Robitzski

A cat named Pikachu, who died and was cremated in January, will be the first cat to have its ashes launched out into space.
Off-World

A Dead Cat Named Pikachu Is Getting Launched Into Space

By Dan Robitzski

Plant-based meat startup Beyond Meat plans to launch an IPO next month, at the ambitious total valuation of $1.2 billion.
Future Society

Fake Meat Startup Beyond Meat Says It’s Worth More Than $1 Billion

By Dan Robitzski

A new brain-computer interface device can translate the neural signals controlling someone's vocal tract into full sentences of audible speech.
Health & Medicine

Amazing Device Turns Thoughts Into Audible Sentences

By Dan Robitzski

Several Lime scooters had to be pulled off the streets of Brisbane after hackers made them play sexually explicit audio recordings.
Advanced Transport

Hackers Are Reprogramming Lime Scooters to Make Sexual Comments

By Dan Robitzski

A hacker recently took control of over 27,000 drivers' accounts in apps that can monitor — and remotely disable — their car.
Robots and Machines

A Hacker Says He Can Kill Your Car’s Engine While You’re Driving

By Dan Robitzski

On Wednesday, the head of China's National Space Administration announced that China plans to construct a research station on the Moon within ten years.
Moon

China Says It’ll Have a Moon Base in Ten Years

By Dan Robitzski

Russia's new counter-drone technology is a low-cost drone that acts like a battering ram, knocking hostile quadcopters out of the sky.
Drones

Russia Built a Battering Ram Drone to Knock Drones out of the Sky

By Dan Robitzski

A new study tracked gun sales on the dark web. Surprisingly, only a small portion of the weapons sold were unavailable for legal purchase.
Science & Energy

People Are Selling Weapons on the Dark Web

By Dan Robitzski

Using a powerful supercomputer, scientists simulated every single one of the billion atoms found in a human gene. It may help them crack genetic disease.
Biology

Scientists Simulated Every Single Atom of a Single Gene

By Dan Robitzski

A crypto thief that security experts are calling the "blockchain bandit" made off with millions of dollars' worth of Ethereum by guessing weak passwords.
Science & Energy

Crypto Thief Stole $54 Million by Guessing Weak Passwords

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists are using CRISPR technology to develop new model organisms. But actually keeping the gene-hacked critters alive comes with new challenges.
Biology

Scientists Are Having Trouble Keeping Gene-Hacked Creatures Alive

By Dan Robitzski

On Saturday, a SpaceX Dragon 2 capsule exploded during a static test. But you would never know that from SpaceX, which insists on calling it an "anomaly."
SpaceX

SpaceX Won’t Admit That Its Crew Capsule Exploded

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon recently unveiled a new requirement for contractors who deliver its packages: taking selfies now and then to verify their identity.
Artificial Intelligence

Amazon Is Forcing Its Delivery Drivers to Take Selfies

By Dan Robitzski

NASA recently tested a new drone swarm, where "Hives" release "Cicadas" to monitor the weather and atmospheric conditions.
Drones

NASA’s “Hive” Drones Can Deploy Swarms of Tiny Robot Cicadas

By Dan Robitzski

Japanese ecommerce firm DeNA has equipped taxis with a facial recognition system that selects ads based on passenger gender and age.
Facial recognition

Japanese Taxis Are Using Facial Recognition to Target Ads to Riders

By Dan Robitzski