More from Dan Robitzski (Page 50)

Chinese engineers just figured out how to manufacture a self-assembling silver nanowire that can be woven into high-tech clothing.

Science & Energy

New Fiber Could Be the Foundation for Futuristic Smart Garments

By Dan Robitzski

According to Elon Musk's tweet, Tesla will provide 100 percent supercharger coverage to Europe by the end of 2019. Then it will move to Africa.

Elon Musk Pledges Tesla Superchargers For All of Europe Next Year

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla tax credits are going away.

The Tesla Tax Credit is Going Away, but Elon Musk has it Covered

By Dan Robitzski

According to Apollo 8 astronaut Bill Anders, crewed missions to Mars and hyped-up chatter of settling the planet are all a waste of time and money.

Apollo Astronaut: It Would Be “Stupid” to Send People to Mars

By Dan Robitzski

The idea is part of an ironic trend: banks want to leverage a technology that was invented to take power away from financial institutions.

A New Bank of America Patent Describes Blockchain-Powered ATMs

By Dan Robitzski

New medical research shows how to reprogram a mature blood cell into a new kind of stem cell that cell can grow into a neuron and multiply indefinitely.

RX and Medicine

Neural Stem Cells Grown From Blood Could Revolutionize Medicine

By Dan Robitzski

For the last 15 years, NASA and ESA scientists have found signs of methane in Mars' atmosphere. But a recent survey by an ESA orbiter didn't find any.

Scientists Thought Mars Was Covered in Methane. Now It’s Missing

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers recently discovered a new technique that makes it much easier to detect and study how dark matter is distributed throughout the universe.

Science & Energy

Stars Torn From Galaxies Let Astronomers “See” Dark Matter

By Dan Robitzski

Uber will begin testing its autonomous vehicles in Pittsburgh on Thursday, marking the company's first tests since a fatal incident in March.

Self-Driving Vehicles

Nine Months After Killing a Pedestrian, Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Are Back on the Road

By Dan Robitzski

When scientists finally build quantum computers, they'll make quick work of current cybersecurity. But using biological systems for security may stump them.

New Encryption Is Based on the Random Movement of Living Cells

By Dan Robitzski

Last Friday, 75 coast redwood saplings found their new home in San Francisco's Presidio national park. All of them are clones of ancient redwood stumps.

Scientists Planted Clones of Ancient Super-Tall Redwoods

By Dan Robitzski

A new swarm of robots inspired by biological cells can communicate with each other to autonomously create new structures and shapes.

Bio-Inspired Swarm Robots Can Form Structures Without a Blueprint

By Dan Robitzski

A new model for backwards time travel debunks one of the main reasons scientists assumed it was possible. But that doesn't make it any easier.

A New Model Debunks a Popular Argument Against Time Travel

By Dan Robitzski

New self-assembling molecular networks can take away several challenges from atomic-scale data storage.

Science & Energy

Self-Organizing Molecules Could Store Data in Individual Atoms

By Dan Robitzski

A new timeline compares Elon Musk's predictions for the future with community-aggregated guesses on how space travel and electric vehicles will progress.

This Site Keeps Track of Elon Musk’s Predictions About The Future

By Dan Robitzski

New research describes how optogenetics, which involves activating nerve cells with pulses of light, could vastly improve paralysis treatment.

Neuroscience and Brain

Stimulating Muscles With Light Could Soon Treat Paralysis

By Dan Robitzski

The United States Has One Last Chance to Restore Net Neutrality

The United States Has One Last Chance to Restore Net Neutrality

By Dan Robitzski

India’s Government Blames Facebook’s WhatsApp for Mob Violence

India’s Government Blames Facebook’s WhatsApp for Mob Violence

By Dan Robitzski

Building telescopes and other things in space, rather than on Earth, would vastly improve our ability to watch and explore the cosmos.

The Search for Aliens May Depend on In-Space Assembly

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial Intelligence

These Full-Body Deepfakes are Like Nothing We’ve Ever Seen

By Dan Robitzski

According to the Pew Research Center, more Americans now get their news from social media than do from traditional printed newspapers.

For News, Americans Now Officially Prefer Social Media to Newspapers

By Dan Robitzski

Replacing Nuclear With Renewables Would Save France $44.5 Billion

Replacing Nuclear With Renewables Would Save France $44.5 Billion

By Dan Robitzski

A White-Hot Molten Silicon “Sun” Could Power 100,000 Homes

A White-Hot Molten Silicon “Sun” Could Power 100,000 Homes

By Dan Robitzski

Samsung Is Reportedly Helping Tesla With Self-Driving Car Tech

Self-Driving Vehicles

Samsung Is Reportedly Helping Tesla With Self-Driving Car Tech

By Dan Robitzski

A new dark matter detection study, COSINE-100, may debunk another experiment that claimed to have spotted dark matter. But the two had some key differences.

Two Nearly-Identical Dark Matter Studies Have Conflicting Results

By Dan Robitzski

A New Spray Gel Helps Kill Tumors Left Over From Cancer Surgery

A New Spray Gel Helps Kill Tumors Left Over From Cancer Surgery

By Dan Robitzski

California Is Installing Chargers for a Type of Electric Car That Doesn’t Exist Yet

Advanced Transport

California Is Installing Chargers for a Type of Electric Car That Doesn’t Exist Yet

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s “Epic Rap Battle,” Explained

Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg’s “Epic Rap Battle,” Explained

By Dan Robitzski

A new report on the future of medical technology by the Royal College of Surgeons argues that many surgical procedures will soon become obsolete.

Health & Medicine

Experts: Stem Cells and Robots Will Replace Many Invasive Surgeries

By Dan Robitzski

Sunflower Labs will soon roll out its adorably-named robot security system: the Sunflower motion detection system and autonomous "Bee" surveillance drones.

Rich People are Protecting Their Homes With Surveillance Drones

By Dan Robitzski

New research found a definition of "trust" that could be programmed into a robot's software. But it turns out we still trust machines more than they do us.

Scientists Want to Teach Robots to Know When to Trust Humans

By Dan Robitzski

In a new essay, think tank president and consultant Marko Kovic breaks down four unresolved legal and political challenges for off-world civilizations.

Four Legal Challenges to Resolve Before Settling on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Using a virus to manufacture computer components could introduce a new type of memory that doesn't cause as many delays as current systems.

MIT Scientists Used a Biological Virus to Make Faster Computers

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook’s Oculus Just Patented a Retina-Resolution VR Display

Science & Energy

Facebook’s Oculus Just Patented a Retina-Resolution VR Display

By Dan Robitzski

Digital Currency Group's new branch, Metaverse Ventures, will invest exclusively in Decentraland startups that develop products for the VR blockchain world.

Virtual Reality

A New VC Fund Is Bankrolling Virtual Products in a Simulated World

By Dan Robitzski

The UAE just proposed an underwater bullet train to connect the country to India, but the government isn't sure it will work.

Advanced Transport

The UAE Wants an Underwater Bullet Train to India

By Dan Robitzski

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument will provide the best measurements to date on dark energy's impact on the universe.

Telescope Upgrade Will Create the Most Detailed Map of the Universe Ever

By Dan Robitzski

Russian media released a video of Peresvet today. Deployment of the laser turret seems to be a response to Pompeo's threat to tear up an arms treaty.

Robots and Machines

Russia’s Latest Weapon: A Laser Cannon

By Dan Robitzski

Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian thinks that Elon Musk's dire warnings about AI's dark future are ridiculous. But he has his own warnings about AI.

Reddit Co-founder Mocks Elon Musk’s Warnings About AI

By Dan Robitzski

The first lab-grown placenta has remained stable for a year. Doctors hope it can better explain and help prevent first-trimester pregnancy complications.

The First Lab-Grown Placenta Unlocks Brand New Medical Research

By Dan Robitzski

The Large Hadron Collider was shut down for routine maintenance on Monday. Come 2021, CERN scientists will have equipped it with all new accelerators.

The Large Hadron Collider Just Shut Down

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's Near-Earth Object Camera (NEOCam), a crucial tool for spotting asteroids on a collision course with Earth, hasn't been fully funded since 2006.

Retired Astronaut: NASA Left Earth Defenseless Against Asteroids

By Dan Robitzski

Artificial Intelligence

This AI Avatar Compliments While You Shop So You’ll Buy More Stuff

By Dan Robitzski

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

How Google Challenged Coders to Make AI More Culturally Aware

By Dan Robitzski

100 capsules of cremated remains are about to be packed into a CubeSat and launched into orbit, fulfilling the last wishes of many who wanted to see space.

Elysium and SpaceX to Launch Cremated Remains of 100 People Into Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

The SEC filed charges against DJ Khaled and Floyd "Crypto" Mayweather for failing to disclose that they were paid to promote multiple ICOs.

The SEC Charged DJ Khaled and Floyd Mayweather With Crypto Fraud

By Dan Robitzski

Technology research group MERL Tech investigated the lofty claims of 43 blockchain startups. In a new report, the group claims none of them delivered.

Out of 43 Blockchain Startups, Zero Have Delivered Products

By Dan Robitzski

A new report finds that almost half of the coal plants in the world are losing money. In the coming years, that number will only grow.

More Than 40 Percent of the World’s Coal Plants Lose Money

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists figured out the ideal brain region to target with deep brain stimulation in order to alleviate depression symptoms.

Stimulating This Part of the Brain Alleviates Depression Symptoms

By Dan Robitzski

A new robotic limb picks up on the signals that an amputee's brain sends to their perceived phantom limbs. Without any practice, the new arm responds.

Prosthetics and Devices

A New Prosthetic Arm Takes the Place of a Phantom Limb

By Dan Robitzski

Those CRISPR Baby Experiments Were Just Banned By The Chinese Government

Health & Medicine

Those CRISPR Baby Experiments Were Just Banned By The Chinese Government

By Dan Robitzski

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

How Killer Robots Will Know They’ve Been Blasted With a Shotgun

By Dan Robitzski

The European Union just proposed a new set of strategies to become carbon neutral by 2050. But that might not be soon enough.

The EU Just Announced a Plan To Go Carbon Neutral

By Dan Robitzski

A new attempt to restore the Great Barrier Reef involves capturing sperm and egg cells, fertilizing them, and implanting the new coral back into the reef.

To Save The Great Barrier Reef, Scientists Are Hoarding Coral Sperm

By Dan Robitzski

Upon hearing the news that a child with a CRISPR-altered genome was born a few weeks ago, genetics researchers around the world condemned the experiment.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Around the World Condemn That CRISPR Baby Experiment

By Dan Robitzski

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found on International Space Station

Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Found on International Space Station

By Dan Robitzski

Uber's AI lab just developed a reinforcement learning system that can learn from its mistakes. Now it can beat video games that always had AI stumped.

Artificial Intelligence

Humans Teamed up With a New Kind of AI to Crush a Notoriously Difficult Video Game

By Dan Robitzski

NASA's InSight rover will land on Mars one way or another on Monday. Here's how you can tune in and watch how it goes down.

Here’s how to Watch NASA’s InSight Rover Land on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene-editing clinical trial, still shrouded in secrecy and surrounded by questions, allegedly resulted in living people with boosted HIV resistance.

Prosthetics and Devices

Chinese Scientists Claim to Have Gene-Edited Human Babies For the First Time

By Dan Robitzski

Arm-A-Dine is a robot arm that picks up food and feeds it to whichever human looks happiest. If you want dinner, you'll have to smile for the camera.

Prosthetics and Devices

A Wearable Robot Arm Makes You Work for Thanksgiving Leftovers

By Dan Robitzski

A new pair of AI algorithms can draw lifelike caricatures. Built by Microsoft and City University of Hong Kong, the work will be shown at SIGGRAPH Asia.

Artificial Intelligence

Check Out These Impressive Caricatures Drawn By AI

By Dan Robitzski

A global, four-year research project just found that 14 of the 28 classic psychology studies it examined couldn't be replicated.

Science & Energy

New Research Just Debunked 14 Classic Psychology Experiments

By Dan Robitzski

New Brain Implant Could Translate Paralyzed People’s Thoughts Into Speech

New Brain Implant Could Translate Paralyzed People’s Thoughts Into Speech

By Dan Robitzski

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

To Bolster Cybersecurity, France Gives Google the Guillotine

By Dan Robitzski

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