More from Dan Robitzski (Page 9)

Oxitec, the biotech company behind the gene-hacked mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, is now planning to release genetically engineered fall armyworms.

Biotech Firm Behind CRISPR Mosquitoes Is Working on Other Gene-Hacked Creatures

By Dan Robitzski

The gene-hacked mosquitoes released in the Florida Keys by the biotech company Oxitec are finally old enough to fly and reproduce.

Florida’s Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes Have Hatched and Taken Flight

By Dan Robitzski

Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer who for nine of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, called out Bill Gates for not sharing evidence on Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell.

Science & Energy

Lawyer Slams Bill Gates for Connections to Jeffrey Epstein

By Dan Robitzski

A startup called Veritone is launching a platform that will let celebrities deepfake their own voice to record ads and endorsements.

Artificial Intelligence

Startup Lets Checked-Out Influencers Deepfake Themselves for Product Endorsements

By Dan Robitzski

Somehow, no one was hurt after two planes crashed into each other in mid-air and made emergency landings just outside of Denver.

Advanced Transport

Two Planes Collide — With, Miraculously, Zero Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

The Navy is testing autonomous drones that find and kill bird nests near air fields in order to prevent bird strikes from grounding planes.

The US Navy Is Developing Drones to Kill Eggs in Wild Bird Nests

By Dan Robitzski

Plutonium landed in the Pacific Ocean millions of years ago after traveling to Earth from some distant star. Now scientists want to know where it's from.

Science & Energy

Interstellar Plutonium Found in Pacific Ocean, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

Cases of the brain-eating "black fungus" found in COVID-19 survivors and patients in India are now popping up in Pakistan as well.

Deadly Brain-Eating Fungus Outbreak Spreads Beyond India

By Dan Robitzski

After Elon Musk announced Tesla would no longer sell Bitcoin or accept it for car payments, crypto investors are furious over perceived manipulation.

Bitcoin Fans Are Absolutely Furious at Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

The wheels on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover are starting to look a little rough. But it can always rip them off if they get too damaged.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Is Designed to Tear Off Its Own Wheels

By Dan Robitzski

Officials in India have found dozens of dead bodies floating in the Ganges River over the past few days, likely a sign of its ongoing coronavirus surge.

Dozens of Bodies Found in Indian River

By Dan Robitzski

The Colonial Pipeline cyberattack is causing gas shortages throughout the American Southeast as drivers wait in long lines to stock up.

Americans Are Hoarding Gas as Gas Stations Run Out of Fuel

By Dan Robitzski

The Republic of Nauru announced that it's now vaccinated about 108 percent of its adult population against the coronavirus.

Small Country Claims to Have Vaccinated 108 Percent of Population

By Dan Robitzski

The US Army is developing a system that would allow it to upgrade and enhance its tanks just by plugging in a new cartridge.

Robots and Machines

US Army Experimenting With “Cartridges” That Upgrade Tank Capabilities

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Nelson is now officially the Biden-era Administrator of NASA. Here's some of what we know about his past career in space and the Senate.

Eight Facts About the New Head of NASA, Bill Nelson

By Dan Robitzski

Russia is preparing to test launch its powerful new RS-28 Sarmat hypersonic nuke, which has been given the appropriate nickname "Satan II."

Russia Announces Plans to Test Nuclear Weapon Called “Satan II”

By Dan Robitzski

Texas police issued a warrant for the arrest of the YouTuber who filmed himself trespassing in the SpaceX Starship facility.

Arrest Warrant Issued for Man Who Broke Into SpaceX Facility

By Dan Robitzski

A new book on Jeff Bezos' career reveals that he's deeply jealous of Elon Musk and SpaceX's success compared to Blue Origin's.

Jeff Bezos Is Reportedly Very Jealous of Elon Musk’s SpaceX

By Dan Robitzski

The Biden administration just greenlit the first large-scale offshore wind farm in the United States, and experts expect more to follow soon.

White House Approves United States’ First Massive Offshore Wind Farm

By Dan Robitzski

A new gene therapy for SCID, also known as "bubble baby" disease, uses HIV to deliver healthy genes that replace mutated ones.

Scientists Turned HIV Into a Life-Saving Gene Therapy

By Dan Robitzski

NASA may have accidentally brought extremely hardy microbial life to Mars, spreading life throughout and contaminating the solar system.

Cornell Scientist: NASA May Have Accidentally Spread Life to Mars

By Dan Robitzski

Triggering a completely wireless neural implant made rats become social with one another, but only until the signal turned off.

Science & Energy

A Brain Implant Made Mice Immediately Become Friends

By Dan Robitzski

Doctors in India are battling a surprise wave of "black fungus" infections in coronavirus survivor's eyes, lungs, and brains.

Doctors Alarmed by Outbreak of “Black Fungus” That Infects Patients’ Brains

By Dan Robitzski

Astronomers may be able to spot alien technosignatures, including the heat given off by satellite constellations like the one launched by Starlink.

Science & Energy

Scientist: We Should Be Searching for the Alien Version of Elon Musk

By Dan Robitzski

China is pushing back against all the criticism over the uncontrolled reentry and landing of its Long March 5B rocket on Saturday

China: Actually, Our Hurtling Deathrocket Was Totally Fine

By Dan Robitzski

Melinda Gates reportedly met with divorce lawyers as far back as 2019, around the time Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and his ties to Bill Gates went public.

Melinda Gates Met With Divorce Lawyers Around the Time of Epstein’s Arrest

By Dan Robitzski

A questionable paper claiming NASA photos revealed fungal life on Mars didn't survive scrutiny, but that doesn't mean Martian life is impossible.

The Mars Mushrooms Are Probably Fake, But Organisms Could Likely Survive on the Red Planet

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is once again under fire for his reputation as a notorious meme thief who refuses to give artists credit.

Elon Musk Just Got Majorly Called Out for Stealing Memes

By Dan Robitzski

A doctor from a COVID task force to Brazil compared the country's horrible pandemic response to a "biological Fukushima."

Doctor: Brazil’s Horrible COVID Response Is a “Biological Fukushima”

By Dan Robitzski

Melinda Gates was reportedly furious at her husband for his ties to Jeffrey Epstein, which may have contributed to their pending divorce.

Before Divorce, Melinda Gates Was Furious at Bill Gates for Epstein Relationship

By Dan Robitzski

A new study suggests that Mars could still have active volcanoes, and recent eruptions could have happened 50,000 instead of billions of years ago.

Science & Energy

Study: Mars Could Still Have Active Volcanoes

By Dan Robitzski

As a Chinese rocket plummets to Earth after launching a space station module, the US military is taking a bold "wait and see what happens" plan of attack.

Science & Energy

Secretary of Defense: We Will Not Shoot Down Plummeting Chinese Deathrocket

By Dan Robitzski

Ohio state senator Andrew Brenner tried and failed miserably to hide the fact that he was driving a car during a Zoom meeting.

Advanced Transport

Watch This Politician’s Horrible Attempt to Hide That He’s Driving on a Zoom Call

By Dan Robitzski

Hackers found a way to take over most of a Tesla's functionality just by broadcasting a WiFi signal from a drone hovering overhead.

Hackers Broke Into Tesla Using a Drone

By Dan Robitzski

After a not-so-sneaky attempt to get back on Twitter, former US President and serial poster Donald Trump finds himself banned once more.

Trump Just Got Kicked Off Twitter AGAIN

By Dan Robitzski

The US birthrate dropped for its sixth straight year, with a precipitous drop in December births linked to the start of the pandemic.

The United States’ Birthrate Is Declining Rapidly

By Dan Robitzski

A new bill in front of the New York state senate would impose a three-year ban on all crypto mining to take stock of its environmental impacts.

New York May Ban All Bitcoin Mining

By Dan Robitzski

The biotech company Oxitec has now released its genetically engineered mosquitoes in the Florida Keys, where it hopes they'll reduce local bug populations.

Biotech Company Officially Unleashes Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes in Florida

By Dan Robitzski

Exposure to air pollution seems to cause short-term cognitive defecits in older white men, according to an alarming new study.

Neuroscience and Brain

Something Is Frizzling Up the Brains of Old White Guys

By Dan Robitzski

As Dogecoin's price spiked, a huge influx of people trying to get in on the action overwhelmed and took down the trading app Robinhood

Science & Energy

Robinhood Went Down Yet Again, This Time Due to Dogecoin Spike

By Dan Robitzski

The creators of the game "AI Dungeon" in which a text-writing algorithm creates a fantasy narrative realized some users were creating abusive content.

Artificial Intelligence

People Caught Using AI to Role-Play Sexual Abuse of Children

By Dan Robitzski

The Pentagon is launching an investigation into its own handling and response to various UFO and UAP sightings over the years.

Robots and Machines

The Pentagon Is Investigating Potential Mishandling of UFO Evidence

By Dan Robitzski

Futurism reported on Oxitec, a biotech company releasing millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Florida. It turns out that Bill Gates helped.

Science & Energy

Bill Gates Funded the Company Releasing Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates announced on Twitter that he and his wife Melinda are getting a divorce, but their work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will continue.

Bill Gates, Who Wants to Geoengineer the Earth, Is Getting a Divorce

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists found a cluster of stars trailing behind our galaxy that they think could be trapped in a blob of dark matter.

A Blob of Dark Matter Appears to Be Floating Outside Our Galaxy

By Dan Robitzski

As the pandemic begins its 15th official year, doctors are seeing severe cancer cases that went ignored for too long for one reason or another.

Severe Cancer Is on the Rise

By Dan Robitzski

An antimasker attacked two Asian women in New York City on Sunday, hitting one in the head with a hammer for refusing to remove her mask.

Woman Brutally Attacked With Hammer for Wearing Mask

By Dan Robitzski

The Parker Solar Probe broke two of its own records, for being fastest human-made object and taking the closest apporach to the Sun.

Science & Energy

A NASA Spacecraft Just “Touched” the Outer Layer of the Sun

By Dan Robitzski

As glaciers melt, drastic river piracy — or the rivers that rely on glaciers diverting off course — will likely continue to follow.

Rivers Around the World Are Disappearing

By Dan Robitzski

Avi Loeb says stars ejected by supermassive black holes travel so fast they essentially time travel, and they may make for great alien tourist destinations.

Science & Energy

Specific Stars Are Effectively Time Traveling

By Dan Robitzski

Former Senator Harry Reid says that he was led to believe Lockheed Martin had stockpiled pieces of a crashed UFO, but he never got to see it for himself.

Former Senator Says Military Wouldn’t Let Him See UFO Wreckage

By Dan Robitzski

A mysterious biotech startup with George Church on its board says it dodged regulatory oversight to give dementia patients an anti-aging gene therapy.

Mysterious Biotech Startup Gave Anti-Aging Gene Therapy to Dementia Patients

By Dan Robitzski

Scientists suspect that gas giant planets are capturing dark matter particles, and they have an idea for how to look for them.

Dark Matter May Be Hiding Inside Planets, Scientists Say

By Dan Robitzski

A production company just announced that it's creating a new series of MMA fights that will happen in space with zero gravity.

Startup Says It Will Launch Fighters Into Space For Brutal Zero-G Combat

By Dan Robitzski

SpaceX cancelled the test launch of its SN15 Starship prototype for an undisclosed reason and will likely try again on Monday.

SpaceX Cancels Launch of Spaceship That Keeps Exploding

By Dan Robitzski

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during an internal Q&A that any employee who wants one could expense an Oculus Quest 2 to the company.

Virtual Reality

Facebook Is Giving a VR Headset to Every Employee Who Wants One

By Dan Robitzski

The Senate unanimously voted to confirm Biden nominee Bill Nelson, a former Senator and astronaut, as the new Administrator of NASA.

Congress Names Former Astronaut as New NASA Leader

By Dan Robitzski

The US Army Reserach Laboratory is working on a new kind of versatile robot that moves around with biological muscles instead of wheels and motors.

The Military Is Working on Robots With Biological Muscles

By Dan Robitzski

A week after spreading dangerous medical misinformation about COVID-19 vaccines, Joe Rogan kind of dialed it back and clarified his statement.

Joe Rogan Explains Anti-Vax Comments: “I’m Not a Doctor, I’m a F*cking Moron”

By Dan Robitzski

A biotech company called Oxitec plans to release 500 million gene-hacked mosquitoes in the Florida Keys -- and residents are furious.

Residents Furious at Release of 500 Million Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

China launched the first module of its upcoming space station, and video footage shows it drifting away from the rocket as it reaches orbit.

China Releases Video of Space Station Module Entering Orbit

By Dan Robitzski

Michio Kaku believes physicists are on their way to unraveling a theory of everything, and that doing so will make us "grand masters."

Michio Kaku: Figuring Out Secrets of Physics Will Make us “Grand Masters”

By Dan Robitzski

Space Force chief scientist Joel Mozer says that the military should develop augmented supersoldiers in order to stay competitive with other countries.

Prosthetics and Devices

Space Force Chief Scientist: “Human Augmentation” Is Now Necessary

By Dan Robitzski

A Texas family is suing SpaceX for negligence after a crash with a truck blocking the highway left one dead and four injured.

Family Sues SpaceX for Death, Spinal Injuries

By Dan Robitzski

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