More from Dan Robitzski (Page 5)

It turns out that using a plastic water bottle causes 1,400 times more damage to the environment than does a glass of tap water.
Environment

Bottled Water Is 1,400 Times Worse for the Environment Than Tap Water

By Dan Robitzski

After the harrowing near-tragedy on the International Space Station, Russia will launch an investigation to look for signs of damage.
Off-World

Russia Will Investigate Whether Space Station Suffered Damage During Incident

By Dan Robitzski

Looking at skewed historical birth records, experts warn that millions more boys than girls will be born in the coming decades.
Studies

Scientists Warn That Way Too Many Men Are Being Born

By Dan Robitzski

The Moon naturally churns rocks from deep within its mantle back to the surface, and NASA wants to grab some for analysis.
Science & Energy

NASA Scientists Want to Obtain “Fragments” From Deep Inside Moon

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists identified a tiny new exoplanet in a nearby solar system that they suspect has large oceans and the conditions to sustain life.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Ocean Planet in Nearby Star System Could Support Life

By Dan Robitzski

People close to the situation believe that Jeffrey Epstein tried to reveal his close ties to Bill Gates as a form of retaliation.
Future Society

Bill Gates Associate Says He Fainted When Epstein Connection Was Revealed

By Dan Robitzski

Thanks to new restrictions on the energy usage of personal electronics, powerful Alienware gaming computers are now banned in California.
Energy

New Gaming PC Consumes so Much Power That It’s Banned in California

By Dan Robitzski

The latest draft of the infrastructure bill includes a provision that would require every new car to be able to tell if the driver is too drunk.
Advanced Transport

New Law Would Make Every New Car Verify That You’re Sober

By Dan Robitzski

To make room for Russia's new International Space Station module Nauka, the old module Pirs was retired. Video shows it incinerate as it fell to Earth.
Off-World

Haunting Video Shows Space Station Module Burning as It Falls

By Dan Robitzski

The Russian delegate to a UN conference argued that autonomous killer robots shouldn't be subject to any additional rules or regulations.
Robotics

Russia: Our Killer Robots Don’t Need Any Pesky International Laws

By Dan Robitzski

Earlier this month, a sustainability researcher validated a 1972 prediction that civilization is on the verge of collapse. Now she explains what that means.
Future Society

Researcher Stands by Prediction of 2040 Civilization Collapse

By Dan Robitzski

Rapper Lil Uzi Vert and Grimes say that Uzi is in the process of buying the exoplanet WAS-127b. Experts say that's total nonsense.
Science & Energy

Rapper Says He’s Buying an Entire Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Back when Tesla was designing the Model Y, engineers worked behind Elon Musk's back to amke sure the vehicle had a steering wheel.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Reportedly Wanted to Remove Steering Wheel from Model Y

By Dan Robitzski

The sharp increase of screen time during the pandemic has been linked to a huge spike in myopia, also known as near-sightedness, among kids.
Studies

Screen Use Linked to Failing Eyesight in Children

By Dan Robitzski

A fireball meteor flew over Turkey last week, illuminating the night sky an eerie shade of bright green before it exploded.
Science & Energy

Videos Shows Meteor Explosion Turning Sky an Eerie Green

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese state media ran an article on Tuesday calling video games opium for children, and the country's tech giants are already adding new restrictions.
Future Society

Chinese State Media Compares Video Games to Addictive Drugs for Kids

By Dan Robitzski

As astronauts venture farther and farther into space, they may need a little pick-me-up in the form of psilocybin when they start to feel lonely.
Chemistry

Scientist Says Astronauts Should Take Psychedelic Mushrooms in Space

By Dan Robitzski

NASA has now confirmed that Russia's Nauka module sent the International Space station spinning farther off course than it admitted at first.
NASA

The Space Station Incident Was Far Worse Than NASA Admitted

By Dan Robitzski

There's a growing "dead zone" in the Pacific Ocean where oxygen levels have plummeted so low that everything in the area either fled or died.
Climate Change

Scientists Horrified by Growing “Dead Zone” in Ocean

By Dan Robitzski

Both Moderna and Pfizer raised the price per dose of their COVID-19 vaccines in newly-negotiated contracts with the European Union.
Viruses

Pfizer and Moderna Hike the Price of COVID Vaccines

By Dan Robitzski

A quantum physicist suggests that distant stars could serve as nodes of a galactic communication network that works by altering the light they emit.
Physics

Scientist Claims That Aliens May Be Communicating via Starlight

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists found that they could power a drone mid-flight using microwaves, and they say the same tech could someday launch spacecraft.
Off-World

Japanese Scientists Propose Microwave-Powered Spacecraft

By Dan Robitzski

The amount of ice that melted away from Greenland in a single day would be enough to submerge all of Florida in two inches of water.
Climate Change

One Day of Greenland’s Ice Melt Could Submerge Florida

By Dan Robitzski

The scandal-plagued stock broker app Robinhood had the worst-ever IPO in American history for a company of its size of Thursday.
Science & Energy

Scandal-Plagued Robinhood Suffers Worst IPO in History

By Dan Robitzski

Nikola's now-infamous demo of a hydrogen truck prototype was even more of a sham than we thought, according to a new SEC court filing.
Advanced Transport

Nikola’s Fake Hydrogen Truck Was Actually Plugged In During Demo, According to Lawsuit

By Dan Robitzski

After a Russian module fired its thrusters and sent the International Space Station rotating off course, a cosmonaut says not to worry.
International Space Station

Russia Says Don’t Worry, It’s No Big Deal That We Threw the ISS Into a Tailspin

By Dan Robitzski

A Tesla Megapack battery system erupted into flames shortly after being installed at a massive energy storage faciltiy in Australia.
Tesla

Fire Breaks Out at Tesla Battery Power Station

By Dan Robitzski

US Congressman Mark Takano introduced legislation that would chop most Americans' work weeks down to four days instead of five.
Future Society

Congressman Proposes Four-Day Work Week

By Dan Robitzski

A baby was born in Israel with a partially developed human embryo — possibly the makings of an absorbed twin — inside of her stomach.
Developments

A Baby Was Born With Her “Parasitic” Twin Inside Her Stomach

By Dan Robitzski

Our planet is in exceptionally bad shape, according to a panel of 14,000 scientists, and "untold suffering" is probably coming our way.
Environment

New Paper Warns That Environmental Collapse Will Lead to “Untold Suffering”

By Dan Robitzski

The Boring Company tells drivers in its Las Vegas loop to call Elon Musk "awesome," "inspiring," and a "great leader" if passengers ask.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Employees Are Instructed to Tell People He’s “Awesome” and “Inspiring”

By Dan Robitzski

Travis Milton, founder of the electric automaker Nikola, was charged with three counts of fraud after it became clear he lied about his electric trucks.
Tesla

Founder of Tesla Wannabe Charged With Fraud for Lying About Hydrogen-Electric Truck

By Dan Robitzski

The neurotech company Synchron got FDA approval to start testing its brain implant in human volunteers, beating Neuralink and other rivals to the punch.
Neuroscience and Brain

Tiny Neuralink Rival Wins Race for Approval To Test Brain Implant in Humans

By Dan Robitzski

An experimental form of male birth control involves using magnets to heat up nanoparticles inside the testes to prevent sperm formation.
Studies

Experimental Male Birth Control Is Magnets That Heat Up Your Testicles

By Dan Robitzski

The Indiana state government, Purdue University scientists, and a German startup are collaborating on new roads that automatically charge electric vehicles.
Electric Vehicles

Indiana Prepares To Test New Roads That Charge Electric Vehicles

By Dan Robitzski

A lab worker in France was diagnosed with a deadly brain disease caused by the exact kind of proteins that her lab studied.
Developments

Suspicions Grow That Worker Caught Deadly Brain Disease at Lab

By Dan Robitzski

Dubai conjured up a much-needed rainstorm thanks to new drones that can fly around and create clouds on command through electrical shocks.
Drones

UAE Says Rainstorms Were Caused by Its Cloud Seeding Drones

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists argue that the universe may be folded in on itself, looping together like a giant cosmic donut rathan than expanding in all directions.
Science & Energy

Physicists Say the Universe Wraps Around Itself Like a Giant Donut

By Dan Robitzski

Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger seems to have turned on his own creation, saying that the site can't be relied on to be truthful.
Future Society

Guy Who Started Wikipedia Says Wikipedia Is Untrustworthy

By Dan Robitzski

A team of prominent scientists warns that we've already passed several ecological tipping points and are approaching even more.
Climate Change

Scientists Warn That the Earth Is Literally Dying

By Dan Robitzski

Cassie, a robot that looks just like a disembodied pair of legs, just successfully ran an impressive 5K on outdoor terrain.
Robotics

Robot Runs 5K Foot Race, Trips and Falls Repeatedly

By Dan Robitzski

At the request of his son, a French engineer designed a robotic exoskeleton that could help his son get around without using his wheelchair.
Health & Medicine

Engineer Builds Voice-Controlled Exoskeleton So His Son Could Walk

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook recalled "About 4 million" Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets after thousands of reports of face hives and rashes emerged.
Developments

Facebook’s Oculus Gave Thousands of Customers Face Rashes and Hives

By Dan Robitzski

Blue Origin has an ingenious plan to cut costs for its spaceflight program that's basically to copy whatever SpaceX does.
Off-World

Advisers Reportedly Begged Jeff Bezos Not to Copy Elon Musk So Much

By Dan Robitzski

Another brutal heat wave is beginning, this time encapsulating much of the continential United States in a massive heat dome.
Climate Change

The US Is Getting Smashed by Another Brutal Heat Wave

By Dan Robitzski

A massive, alarming new study just found a strong correlation between heavy marijuana use and the onset of schizophrenia.
Health & Medicine

Scientists Claim That More and More Schizophrenia Cases Are Linked to Marijuana

By Dan Robitzski

A Tesla's Autopilot system got confused as it cruised down the highway and mistook the Moon for an endless string of yellow traffic lights.
Tesla

Tesla Autopilot Mistakes Moon for Yellow Traffic Light

By Dan Robitzski

New tech can convert plastic garbage into safe, edible protein, potentially giving us an answer to the mountains of trash choking the planet.
Food

New Tech Turns Plastic Waste Into Food

By Dan Robitzski

Preliminary research suggests a possible answer for why the delta variant of COVID-19 is so much more infectious than others.
Viruses

Preliminary Research Explains Why the Delta Variant Is So Dangerous

By Dan Robitzski

Fox and Friends told its audience that a Russian jet was capable of doubling the speed of light. That, to be clear, is total nonsense.
Physics

The Geniuses at Fox News Said That a New Jet Flies at Twice the Speed of Light

By Dan Robitzski

An Air Force Research Lab report predicts that missile defense force fields are coming soon, thanks to advances in laser technology.
Robots and Machines

Air Force Research Lab Says Force Fields Are “on the Horizon”

By Dan Robitzski

The irreverent weather app Carrot now includes a warning about wet bulb conditions that could make it hot enough to drop dead outside.
Climate Change

Weather App Now Warns You When It’s Hot Enough To Drop Dead

By Dan Robitzski

A new study shows that robotic exoskeletons may not be as beneficial as initially thought due to unnecessary strain they place on wearers' brains.
Prosthetics and Devices

Exoskeletons Are Causing Problems With Wearers’ Brains, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A massive study found a startling link between heavy coffee drinking and an increased risk of dementia and other brain diseases.
Neuroscience and Brain

Excessive Coffee Drinking Linked to Dementia

By Dan Robitzski

According to a new study, the spending habits of Swedish men lead to far more greenhouse gas emissions than do those of women.
Climate Change

Men Are Causing Way More Climate Change Than Women, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists uncovered a sort of fossil record of dozens of ancient, never-before-seen viruses in a sample of Tibetan ice.
Environment

Scientists Discover Dozens of Ancient Viruses, Frozen in Ice

By Dan Robitzski

Jeff Bezos's spaceflight company Blue Origin completed its first crewed mission. Meanwhile, experts debate why the rocket looks so "anthropomorphic."
Off-World

Scientists Ponder Why Jeff Bezos’ Rocket Looks like a Giant Dong

By Dan Robitzski

Lyft and the autonomous vehicle startup Argo AI plan to launch a small fleet of self-driving cars in Miami later this year.
Self-Driving Vehicles

Lyft Says It’ll Deploy Self-Driving Cars by the End of the Year

By Dan Robitzski

A top Catholic official resigned on Thursday after hackers revealed that he frequented gay bars and used Grindr, raising questions about digital privacy.
Science & Energy

Top Catholic Bishop Resigns After Hackers Expose That He Was on Grindr

By Dan Robitzski

A wobble in the Moon's orbit, coupled with rising sea levels, is about to make coastal flooding a whole lot worse for coastal cities.
Moon

NASA Says a Change in the Moon’s Orbit Will Make Flooding on Earth Worse

By Dan Robitzski

A gun shop in Utah started to sell a kit that covers real handguns in Lego bricks, making the weapons look like a colorful child's toy.
Future Society

Company in Hot Water for Making Real Guns Look Like Lego Toys

By Dan Robitzski

New research validates MIT scientists' 1972 prediction that civilization is on track to utterly collapse within the next two decades.
Future Society

MIT Prediction of Civilization Collapse Appears to Be on Track

By Dan Robitzski

New research found high levels of PFAS, a class of plastics used in a wide variety of products, accumulating in new moms' breast milk.
Studies

Scientists Find Alarming Chemicals in Mothers’ Breast Milk

By Dan Robitzski

A veterinarian in China caught and died from an extremely rare and deadly "Monkey B" virus that almost never infects humans.
Developments

Extremely Rare Monkey Virus Kills Veterinarian in China

By Dan Robitzski