More from Victor Tangermann (Page 83)

TikTok has officially sued the Trump administration for banning transactions with its parent company ByteDance.

TikTok Officially Sues the Trump Administration Over Ban in US

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla fanatic and DIY tinkerer extraordinaire Rich from Rich Rebuilds built a full-scale take on the "Cyberquad," the ATV cousin of the Cybertruck.

Advanced Transport

This Guy Built a DIY Cyberquad and It’s an Absolute Monster

By Victor Tangermann

Engineering firm Furrion has built a four-legged exo-suit, a 9,000 pound monstrosity straight out of "Pacific Rim" — and it wants you to pilot it.

Robots and Machines

This Fully Functional, 9000 Pound Mech Suit Looks Absolutely Amazing

By Victor Tangermann

The number of unemployment claims for the Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) program is growing exponentially, raising the alarm.

Economists Predict “Tsunami” of Unemployment

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have developed a new deep learning algorithm that can detect heart disease just by analyzing four photographs of a person's face.

Algorithm Detects Heart Disease by Analyzing Selfies

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla is seeking approval from the FCC to market a sensor that can tell if a child is being left behind in a hot car, Reuters reports.

Tesla Asks USA For Permission to Automatically Detect Kids Left in Hot Car

By Victor Tangermann

An AI-controlled virtual fighter jet just beat a human pilot in a dogfight, winning five rounds to zero as part of a DARPA contest.

Artificial Intelligence

AI Fighter Jet Obliterates Human Air Force Pilot in Simulated Dogfight

By Victor Tangermann

NASA is investigating a small air leak on board the International Space Station. Luckily, the three current crew members aren't in immediate danger.

International Space Station

NASA Says There’s a Small Leak on the International Space Station

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have built a tiny microbot that weighs less than a gram and can run entirely on methanol, a type of alcohol.

Relatable: This Tiny Robot Is Powered by Alcohol

By Victor Tangermann

Blue Origin just delivered an engineering mockup of a lander that could one day carry American astronauts down to the surface of the Moon to NASA.

Blue Origin Engineers Deliver Full-Scale Prototype Moon Lander to NASA

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have observed that two bubbles around the center of the Milky Way are spitting out clusters of cold molecular gas "like bullets."

Science & Energy

Astronomers Detect “Bullets” of Gas Shooting Out of Our Galactic Center

By Victor Tangermann

Authorities in Florida just approved a plan for biotech company Oxitec to release over 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes over the next two years.

Science & Energy

Florida Is Releasing Almost a Billion Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Victor Tangermann

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans

By Victor Tangermann

Electric car company Lucid Motors just announced that its Lucid Air luxury sedan "will be the fastest charging electric vehicle ever offered."

Tesla Competitor Claims Its Car Will Be the “Fastest Charging” EV Ever

By Victor Tangermann

Amazon was approved by the Federal Communications Commission to launch 3,326 satellites as part of its Kuiper constellation. That has astronomers worried.

Amazon’s Constellation of 3,236 Satellites Has Astronomers Very, Very Freaked Out

By Victor Tangermann

Japan is pouring money into the development of flying cars with aims of commercializing the futuristic mode of transportation as soon as 2023.

Advanced Transport

Flying Cars Are Actually, Finally Becoming a Reality in Japan

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Stanford researchers have created a "hydrodynamic treadmill," essentially an endless loop of water, to closely observe microorganisms.

Science & Energy

Scientists Built a Tiny Treadmill for Microscopic Water Creatures

By Victor Tangermann

NASA scientists have been tracking a strange "dent" in the Earth's magnetic field as its slowly moving westwards over the southern Atlantic Ocean.

Science & Energy

NASA Is Tracking a “Dent” in the Earth’s Magnetic Field

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study, a supernova some 65 light-years from Earth caused a mass extinction event during the Late Devonian period, 359 million years ago.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Exploding Star Likely Caused Mass Extinction on Earth

By Victor Tangermann

This week, two more universities, University of Notre Dame and Michigan State University announced they're moving classes online for two weeks.

Oops: Colleges Are Already Canceling In-Person Classes

By Victor Tangermann

In a landmark study, researchers have used gene editing to remove the oral herpes virus (HSV-1) in mice. The technique could also work in humans.

Health & Medicine

Scientists Use Gene-Hacking to Seemingly Cure Herpes in Mice

By Victor Tangermann

Your smartphone is able to tell if you've had one too many drinks according to a new study published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs.

Prosthetics and Devices

Oh Great, Now Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk

By Victor Tangermann

A team of Harvard astronomers have a wild new theory: the Sun used to have a star companion while the solar system was being formed.

Science & Energy

Harvard Astronomers Propose That Our Star System Used to Be Binary

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX just beat its own record by reusing a single Falcon first stage called B1049.6 for the sixth time after launching from Cape Canaveral this morning.

SpaceX Just Reused a Single Booster for the 6th Time

By Victor Tangermann

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk announced on Twitter that his space company's Raptor engine just aced an important pressure test "without exploding."

SpaceX Tests Highest Pressure Rocket Engine In History

By Victor Tangermann

Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

Quantum Physics

Scientists Observe “Time Crystals” Interacting With Each Other

By Victor Tangermann

Northrop Grumman's MEV-2 spacecraft will attempt to dock to an actively functioning satellite called Intelsat 10-02 while in geosynchronous orbit.

Robots and Machines

Northrop Grumman Launches Second Satellite Rescue Mission

By Victor Tangermann

A team from Arizona State University found nanoplastic particles in all 47 examined human lungs, liver, spleen, and kidney samples.

Scientists Find Microplastics Inside Human Organs

By Victor Tangermann

NASA just powered up its Ingenuity Mars helicopter for the first time — not on the Martian surface, but in the middle of interplanetary space.

NASA Just Powered Up Its Mars Helicopter

By Victor Tangermann

By modeling the interior using simulations, an international team of scientists are having a closer look at the unusual watery cores of Uranus and Neptune.

Science & Energy

Scientists: Probe Center of Uranus, You’ll Hit Some Weird Water

By Victor Tangermann

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) signed a contract with the extremely controversial facial recognition tech company Clearview AI.

ICE Signs Contract With Controversial Facial Recognition Company

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists have figured out a way to keep a quantum computer system "coherent," or operational, 10,000 times longer than before.

Quantum Physics

Scientists Create Quantum System That Stays Operational 10,000 Longer

By Victor Tangermann

Despite SpaceX just having won a massive US Air Force launch contract, the company's CEO Elon Musk is pissed about ULA scoring 60 percent of the launches.

Elon Musk: SpaceX Competitor “A Complete Waste of Taxpayer Money”

By Victor Tangermann

The US is going through a massive mental health crisis, according to a CDC study. Minority groups, caregivers, and essential workers are hit hardest.

Health & Medicine

CDC: Over 25% of Young Americans Considered Suicide Due to the Pandemic

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers have created a negative pressure "gravity suit" to help astronauts counteract some of the dangers of spending time in microgravity.

Researchers Built a “Gravity Suit” to Keep Astronauts Healthy

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered an astonishingly Milky Way-like galaxy called SPT0418-47 more than 12 billion light-years away from our own galaxy.

Science & Energy

Astronomers Puzzled By Ancient Milky Way-Like Galaxy 12 Billion Light-Years Away

By Victor Tangermann

Tech company Hyperion has unveiled the Hyperion XP-1, a hydrogen fuel cell-powered hypercar with an advertised 1,000 mile range and a top speed of 221 mph.

Advanced Transport

This Beast of a Hydrogen-Powered Hypercar Has a 1,000 Mile Range

By Victor Tangermann

A team of researchers at Washington University in St Louis have figured out a way to turn regular ol' bricks into batteries.

Science & Energy

They Turned a Brick Into a Battery

By Victor Tangermann

The "mole" attached to NASA's InSight Mars lander is officially "in" according to an update by the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

NASA’s Mars Mole is Officially “Dug In”

By Victor Tangermann

CEO of Tesla competitor and truck maker Nikola Mark Russell recently took aim at Elon Musk's passion project, the Cybertruck — and he didn't mince words.

Tesla Competitor Slams Cybertruck For Looking “Like a Doorstep”

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers discovered a new type of supernova, a "calcium-rich supernova," that produces a ton of calcium through a chemical reaction.

Science & Energy

Your Bones Are Made Out of Exploded Stars, Scientists Say

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have discovered that a gigantic wall of clouds is traveling around the surface of Venus every 4.9 days and has been doing so for decades.

Science & Energy

A Poisonous Tsunami Is Screaming Across the Surface of Venus

By Victor Tangermann

While NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were trapped inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon for hours, they made several prank calls to pass the time.

Bored Inside Their Spacecraft, NASA Astronauts Made Prank Calls to Pass the Time

By Victor Tangermann

The 14 Least and Most Effective Kinds of Masks: Ranked! By Scientists!

The 14 Least and Most Effective Kinds of Masks: Ranked! By Scientists!

By Victor Tangermann

According to a new study published today in the Journal of Adolescent Health, young adults who vape are way more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19.

Study: Young Vapers Far More Likely to be Diagnosed With COVID-19

By Victor Tangermann

Tesla competitor Lucid Motors claims its Air electric sedan has a whopping 517 miles (832 km) on a single charge, as certified by the EPA.

Tesla Competitor, Lucid, Claims Their Car Will Have a 517 Mile Range

By Victor Tangermann

Russia Says It Has Approved an Untested COVID Vaccine

Russia Says It Has Approved an Untested COVID Vaccine

By Victor Tangermann

The UK government has been funneling millions of dollars into a gun and knife crime prediction tool that uses artificial intelligence. Turns out it sucks.

Artificial Intelligence

Minority Report-Style Crime-Predicting AI Predictably Sucks At Its Job

By Victor Tangermann

The Department of Energy recently signed a contract with an AI lab to come up with a machine learning bird watcher to study bird around solar farms.

Artificial Intelligence

Scientists Are Using an “AI Bird Watcher” to Solve a Solar Farm Bird Massacre Mystery

By Victor Tangermann

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Could Revolutionize Off-Planet Exploration

NASA’s Mars Helicopter Could Revolutionize Off-Planet Exploration

By Victor Tangermann

A new NASA simulation shows the ghostly ultraviolet flashes of Mars's "nightglow," represented by greenish hues in the Martian night sky.

Science & Energy

New NASA Animation Shows Mars’ Creepy Greenish “Nightglow”

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers showed that electrical stimulation through simple ear pieces improved adult participants' abilities to recognize foreign language tones.

Zapping the Brain Improved Language Learning Abilities by 13%

By Victor Tangermann

A small UK-based DNA-testing company called DnaNudge has come up with a toaster-sized machine that can detect COVID-19 in just 90 minutes.

Prosthetics and Devices

Machine Detects COVID-19 in 90 Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

A team of astronomers have found new evidence suggesting there's a neutron star lurking in the center of the supernova 1987A that's only 33 years old.

Astronomers May Have Found a Star That’s Just 33 Years Old

By Victor Tangermann

In a recent tweet on Wednesday, president Donald Trump claimed that "NASA was Closed & Dead until I got it going again." The space community wasn't happy.

Former Astronaut Blasts Trump For Lying About NASA

By Victor Tangermann

According to new research, the shape of our solar system's heliosphere could resemble a "deflated croissant," not a comet with a long tail.

NASA Imaged the Bubble Around the Solar System and… Yikes

By Victor Tangermann

Astronomers have observed an unusual young exoplanet some 150 light-years from Earth that's far more dense for its size and age than thought possible.

Science & Energy

Like Your First Quarantine Sourdough Attempt, This Exoplanet Is “Surprisingly Dense”

By Victor Tangermann

A new video uploaded by SpaceX shows off the company's impressive first full-scale Starship hop in glorious HD. We even got an inside view.

Watch SpaceX’s Epic Starship Test Flight From Inside the Giant Rocket

By Victor Tangermann

A recently uploaded video shows Japan's 60-foot Gundam robot taking its first tentative steps — despite still missing its head.

Watch a 60-Foot Mecha-Style Robot Take Its First Steps

By Victor Tangermann

Incredible: Watch SpaceX Fly Full-Scale Starship Prototype to 500 Feet

Incredible: Watch SpaceX Fly Full-Scale Starship Prototype to 500 Feet

By Victor Tangermann

In a news conference, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley told reporters what it's like to ride SpaceX's Crew Dragon back to Earth.

NASA Astronauts “Almost Speechless” At How Well SpaceX Crew Dragon Did

By Victor Tangermann

According Elon Musk, Tesla is "highly likely" to produce a smaller version of it's long-awaited Cybertruck for the European market.

Elon Musk: “Highly Likely” Europe Will Get a Smaller Tesla Cybertruck

By Victor Tangermann

Thanks to San Francisco-based startup Formant, you can remotely a control a Boston Dynamics Spot robot dog to go for a stroll.

Boston Dynamics

This Site Lets You Control an Actual Boston Dynamics Robodog With a PlayStation Controller

By Victor Tangermann

Photos have emerged of large tents and heavy tunneling machinery belonging to Elon Musk's Boring Company in the California desert north east of LA.

There’s a Theory That Elon Musk Is Digging a Tunnel Between LA and Vegas

By Victor Tangermann

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