More from Dan Robitzski (Page 7)

Scientists have uncovered dozens more subterranean lakes near Mars' south pole, but some of their locations defy explanation.
Science & Energy

NASA Research Identifies Dozens of Underground Lakes on Mars

By Dan Robitzski

A new report by the Air Force Research Laboratory suggests that the Space Force should prepare to treat the Moon and cislunar space as a military domain.
Moon

Military Report Says Space Force Must Prepare for Moon Warfare

By Dan Robitzski

A physicist argues that the universe may have been expanding for all of eternity rather than having any sort of "beginning" point in time.
Physics

Physicist: The Universe Has Likely Been Expanding “Eternally”

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists discovered that an ancient skull belonged to a new species in the Homo genus that's even closer related to us than Neanderthals.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say Ancient Skull Belonged to “Dragon Man” Related to Modern Humans

By Dan Robitzski

The research labs around the world that handle the most dangerous pathogens have alarmingly bad biosecurity protocols in place.
Developments

Experts: Infectious Disease Labs Have Shockingly Terrible Security

By Dan Robitzski

Israel has deployed a military robot called the Jaguar, which is armed with a machine gun, to the border of the Gaza Strip.
Robotics

Israel Sends Robots Armed with Machine Guns to Palestinian Border

By Dan Robitzski

We may never be able to debunk the undying hypothesis that the coronavirus somehow escaped from a lab because it's technically unfalsifiable.
Developments

The Lab Leak Theory Is a Tragic Hall of Mirrors That’ll Probably Never Have a Satisfying Answer

By Dan Robitzski

A tech startup says it's gene-hacked trees to asborb and sequester more climate change-inducing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
Science & Energy

A Startup Is Working on Gene Hacked Trees to Gobble Up Tons of Climate-Destroying Carbon Dioxide

By Dan Robitzski

An ambitious mission to map out the entire global ocean floor is only 20 percent complete after a year of pandemic-related slowdowns.
Environment

We’re Planning Moon Missions But We’ve Only Mapped 20 Percent of the Ocean Floor

By Dan Robitzski

An ancient comet impact may have helped jumpstart human civilization, according to a study linking the collision to cultural and societal shifts.
Science & Energy

Study: A Comet Hitting Earth May Have Helped Spark Civilization

By Dan Robitzski

Members of Congress tried to pass the buck for NASA's small budget for the Artemis missions, but Administrator Bill Nelson wasn't having it.
NASA

Head of NASA Slams Congress’s Hypocrisy

By Dan Robitzski

A new Facebook patent reveals some unusual new augmented reality headware, including a fedora, baseball cap, and visor with displays attached to the brim.
Future Society

Facebook Is Working on an Amazingly Hideous Augmented Reality Fedora

By Dan Robitzski

A Texas hospital just ousted over 150 employees who refused to get the coronavirus vaccine, comparing the workplace requirement to Nazism.
Viruses

Texas Hospital Fires Over 150 Employees For Refusing To Get Vaccinated

By Dan Robitzski

A professor who specializes in oil drilling and engineering claimed that he disproved Einstein, just to face mockery online.
Physics

Professor Mocked for Claiming to Have Disproved Einstein

By Dan Robitzski

A leaked UN climate report reveals that humanity and ecosystems around the world are on the absolute brink of destruction.
Climate Change

Leaked UN Climate Report: The Apocalypse Is Almost Here

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that there's no way to slow down the process of aging, even if modern medicine helps us live longer than before.
Studies

Study: Sorry, Aging Is Unstoppable, You Vain, Youth-Hungry Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

Another ship broke down in the Suez Canal on Friday, but this time tugboats were able to pull it out of the way so traffic could pass through.
Advanced Transport

Another Ship Just Got Stuck in the Suez Canal

By Dan Robitzski

Cobalt mining is ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as miners are kept in poverty and live around mines that poison the environment.
Energy

Electric Car Batteries Are Turning This Country Into an Actual Hellscape

By Dan Robitzski

While it didn't drive erratically, a Tesla Model 3's Autopilot system got confused when driving behind a truck hauling traffic lights down the highway.
Tesla

Watch Tesla Autopilot Get Bamboozled by a Truck Hauling Traffic Lights

By Dan Robitzski

Aibnb, Uber, Lyft, and other similar companies are becoming considerably more expensive as they attempt to stop burning through so much cash.
Future Society

The Price of Ubers and Airbnbs Is About to Get Jacked Up

By Dan Robitzski

Coating the platters of a high-density hard drive with graphene instead of a carbon-based overcoat results in ten times the storage capacity.
Graphene

Graphene Hard Drives Store Ten Times as Much Data

By Dan Robitzski

Former employees and associates of Bill Gates are speaking up about the open secret that, despite his public persona, he's actually a horrible boss.
Future Society

Bill Gates Was Reportedly Horrible to His Employees

By Dan Robitzski

NASA still has a few things it can try to revive the Hubble Space Telescope, but there's a chance the observatory is gone for good.
Off-World

It’s Looking Possible That the Hubble Is Dead Forever

By Dan Robitzski

A new paper warns that increasingly acidic oceans will lead to a collapse of the global food web within the next few decades.
Climate Change

Researchers Claim Collapsing Ocean Ecosystem Will Devastate Humanity Within 25 Years

By Dan Robitzski

China's space program is finally preparing to loan out its newly-retrieved lunar samples to scientists for their research.
Moon

China Is Now Letting Scientists Study the Rocks It Took From the Moon Last Year

By Dan Robitzski

A massive clump of galaxies 3.3 billion light-years across seems to defy the cosmological principle and our understanding of the universe.
Science & Energy

Giant Arc of Galaxies Is Way Too Big to Exist, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

The Israeli military just tested a plane equipped with a new laser weapon that's capable of burning through drones in midair.
Drones

Watch Israel’s Military Shoot Down Drones With a Laser

By Dan Robitzski

After Subway was sued for allegedly lying about its tuna sandwiches, a NYT reporter decided to buy some of the meat and test its DNA.
Science & Energy

DNA Test Fails to Find Any Tuna in Subway Tuna Sandwiches

By Dan Robitzski

The pharmaceutical company BioNTech, which collaborated with Pfizer to make a coronavirus vaccine, is now injecting patients with a vaccine for cancer.
Cancer

First Patient Injected With Cancer Vaccine in Phase II Trial

By Dan Robitzski

A bizarre space rock called 2014 UN271 will come near Earth within the next decade before continuing along its 600,000-year-long orbit.
Off-World

A Tiny Planet Will Soon Drift Nearer to Earth Than Since Caveman Times

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists developed a pee test that they say can diagnose brain cancer before it's too late to treat or remove the tumor.
Cancer

Pee Test Could Diagnose Brain Cancer, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Over the last 15 years, the Earth has doubled how much energy from the Sun it traps as excess heat on the surface and in the ocean.
Climate Change

Sun Heat on Earth Doubled In 15 Years, You Dumb Melting Morons

By Dan Robitzski

Two NASA astronauts conducted an hours-long spacewalk Wednesday morning to install new solar panels on the International Space Station.
Off-World

Watch Astronauts Venture Outside the Space Station to Install Solar Panels

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists unraveled a mystery of planetary formation by discovering that chaotic perturbations help trigger protoplanetary disks to clumb together.
Science & Energy

Study: An Extra Pinch of Chaos, and BAM, New Planets

By Dan Robitzski

A gigantic swarm of autonomous warehouse robots becomes both more sophisticated and efficient the more individual robots are put to work.
Robotics

Terrifying Robot “Swarm” Gets Smarter the More We Make It Work

By Dan Robitzski

The UK decided to delay lifting its coronavirus restrictions by another four weeks as the delta variant continues to spread.
Developments

UK Delays Reopening Over Alarming Spread of Delta COVID Variant

By Dan Robitzski

Employees at Canon's office in China have to smile into a facial recognition camera before they're allowed into the building.
Facial recognition

Chinese Canon Employees Must Smile at the Facial Recognition Camera Before Returning to Work

By Dan Robitzski

Streamers are trying to preserve fading indigenous languages live by broadcasting them on Twitch, but they say it's an uphill battle.
Future Society

Activists Are Keeping Fading Indigenous Languages Alive — on Twitch

By Dan Robitzski

A team of engineers developed a new artificial skin for prosthetic limbs or robots that actually forms bruises whenever it gets bonked or damaged.
Health & Medicine

Robot Skin Now Gets Bruised When Punched, Horrifyingly

By Dan Robitzski

COVAX, the international vaccine program for less wealthy nations, is struggling due to low buy-in from richer countries that decided to hoard shots.
Viruses

International Vaccine Program Still Struggling After Rich Countries Hoard Shots

By Dan Robitzski

After Decades, Mystery Surrounding Giant Space Explosions Is Solved
Science & Energy

After Decades, Mystery Surrounding Giant Space Explosions Is Solved

By Dan Robitzski

Help Name NASA’s Moon-Bound Manikin
Moon

Help Name NASA’s Moon-Bound Manikin

By Dan Robitzski

In order to determine how a scrappy snail evaded an invasive predator for decades, scientists turned it into a cyborg with a mini shell computer.
Robots and Machines

Scientists Turned Snails Into Tiny Cyborgs

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists modeled how long it would take for an advanced alien race to colonize an entire Milky Way-like galaxy, assuming it would want to.
Science & Energy

Here’s How Quickly Aliens Could Conquer the Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

Oil companies like Shell are actively trying to rehabilitate their image by paying social media influencers to paint them in a good light.
Climate Change

Oh No, Oil Companies Are Paying Social Media Influencers Now

By Dan Robitzski

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely
Prosthetics and Devices

New Tech Could Take Doctors Out of Hospitals Completely

By Dan Robitzski

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought
Viruses

New Data: COVID Reached the US Earlier Than We Thought

By Dan Robitzski

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please
Developments

Experts Beg World Leaders To Actually Learn Lessons From Pandemic, Please

By Dan Robitzski

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog
Robot Dogs

Hawaii Cops Spent COVID Relief Funds on Robot Dog

By Dan Robitzski

Free School Lunch Linked To Better Health, Higher Salary
Studies

Free School Lunch Linked To Better Health, Higher Salary

By Dan Robitzski

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why
Science & Energy

The Largest Structures in the Universe Started To Spin and We Don’t Know Why

By Dan Robitzski

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually
Science & Energy

Experts Decide That Earth Has Five Oceans, Actually

By Dan Robitzski

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective
Viruses

A New Type of COVID Vaccine Is 90 Percent Effective

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin Again, on One Condition
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Says Tesla Will Accept Bitcoin Again, on One Condition

By Dan Robitzski

Go Read This Essay on Managing Video Game Addiction
Health & Medicine

Go Read This Essay on Managing Video Game Addiction

By Dan Robitzski

Three members of an independent advisory panel to the FDA resigned in protest after the agency approved a controversial Alzheimer's treatment.
RX and Medicine

Furious FDA Advisors Resign to Protest Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug That They Say Doesn’t Work

By Dan Robitzski

The Bitcoin Mining Council, a group of miners trying to make crypto more sustainable, left a prominent figure in the industry behind: Elon Musk.
Elon Musk

Sustainable Bitcoin Mining Group Disavows Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

A farmer in Wales built his own Bitcoin mine, which he powers by burning the methane emitted from his cows' decomposing turds.
Energy

A Farmer Is Using Cow Turds to a Power Bitcoin Mining Operation

By Dan Robitzski

Elon Musk finaly showed off the new Tesla Model S Plaid playing the game "Cyberpunk 2077" during a brief demo event on Thursday.
Elon Musk

Elon Musk Plays Cyberpunk 2077 on Tesla’s In-Car Console

By Dan Robitzski

Royal Caribbean's first cruise after a year of pandemic-related shutdowns already has a coronavirus outbreak after two passengers tested positive.
Developments

The First Cruise Ship Since the Pandemic Already Has a COVID Outbreak

By Dan Robitzski

Uber accidentally offered health insurance to some of its drivers then took two weeks to clarify that they're actually ineligible.
Advanced Transport

Uber Offers Drivers Health Insurance, Then Says Oops Nevermind

By Dan Robitzski

Congressman Louie Gohmert suggested in a bad-faith argument against climate change legislation, that the government should try to adjust the Moon's orbit.
Climate Change

Congressman Asks If Changing the Moon’s Orbit Could Fight Climate Change

By Dan Robitzski

Chinese authorities arrested over 1,100 people accused of laundering money through Bitcoin in order to hide their telecom fraud.
Bitcoin

China Arrests Over 1,100 People for Laundering Crypto

By Dan Robitzski

New research found over 500 new fast radio bursts, giving scientists much more to work with as they figure out what's causing them.
Science & Energy

Scientists Found Hundreds of New Mysterious Signals From Deep Space

By Dan Robitzski